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button layout: which style is best?

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Anubis_au:

CrapMAME, here we come...

Apologies to the owner of that CP...

vidmouse:

Shan -

I use the second "arc" one in your picture... it was most comfortable
for my style of play.

As a bonus, it appears to work well for the A-B-X-Y and L-R buttons
for playing SNES games.  (due to the diamond shape + 2 extra buttons)
For Genesis games I use the bottom 3 buttons in an arc.

I didn't feel a need to add the 7th button for 4-button Neo Geo
layouts... I didn't "learn" on too many original machines so I'm
not used to it anyways.




DaveMMR:

I'm partial to the straight rows myself, but that's personal preference.   It's more aesthetics than comfort though.  I also use the top row as my main buttons, so there's no discomfort for me. 

Check out the control panel database stickied at the top to see how the different options look in action.

RetroACTIVE:

I've heard the curved pattern sometimes is a problem when two people are playing simultaneously... it tends to  kick the elbow out...

thats what I've heard... not sure if its true... but I can kind of see that happening.


u_rebelscum:

I prefer the straight, but just my opinion.

I looked into doing an arch to match my fingers when I play, but I have virtually no arch when my fingers are in the bent, ready to play position.  No where near the arch what others have done here (and you show in your examples pic).  If you arch, arch to match how your fingers would lay while you're playing.  Don't just use the outline of your straight fingers (unless that's how you play, of course); depending how you bend each finger, the arch may increase or decrease.  (Even if you bent each equally, the arch will decrease.)

 :dunno Again, I just went with straight.

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