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rivacom:
I'm working on my first Mame cabinet, got the board this weekend and will most likely start outlining everything this week and start cutting.  My question is, I am planning on ordering the control panel buttons and joysticks.  I've seen so many setups and options I'm actually quite lost.  So I just wanted to make sure I'm all set on my setup here.  I'm going with

20 Push Buttons (2x6Buttons players, 2x4player buttons)
4 COMPETITION JOYSTICK, Are these ok joysticks for any of the fighting games?
4 Player start push buttons.
2 LED push buttons(player credits)
Ipac4 - with usb.

My question is the only other things I would need for the CP are wires correct? 
Xb0x3r:
You might want to add a few admin buttons (i.e. Pause, Exit, Tab, etc.)

In my opinion, if I were to redo my CP I would first get a bunch of iL supers, Ponyboy sells them on the Buy/Sell/Trade forums. (I find that the Happ supers feel really nice, they are the exact same as iL supers)

Hope this helps,
Xb0x3r
DaveMMR:
You may want to add a couple of more LED push-buttons if you're going 4-player panel.  Some games (ex: TMNT) had a specific coin slot for each player.  If you don't want to get extra buttons, though, you could always remap MAME.

And admin buttons are helpful but not necessary with the shift functions of the encoder.  "Exit" is the most useful.  "Pause", too, I suppose.

--- Quote from: Xb0x3r on March 24, 2008, 07:40:52 pm ---You might want to add a few admin buttons (i.e. Pause, Exit, Tab, etc.)

--- End quote ---
But never, ever "Tab" unless you like people changing your internal MAME settings.  Remember, if there's a button on your panel, it will get pushed.
psychotech:
NO tab, NO pause.

How many times did you get to pause the game in the arcade..
TelcoLou:
He could always put the admin buttons on the bottom, left-side of the panel .. that's where I'm putting mine; out of the way, yet accessible if needed :)
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