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Admin Esc Button - Where do you put yours?
javeryh:
Exit (esc) is on the far left separate form the other buttons so there will be less of a chance that someone accidentally presses it. The other 3 admin buttons are P1 start, P2 start and pause.
IgnoranceIsBliss:
My cabinet didn't have the usual '1P' and '2P' buttons - it uses a set of four square illuminated pushbuttons that are actually completely above the playfield (the cabinet I remodelled was designed to accept a Ninja Turtles CP as an option).
Since I only have 2 players, I converted the remaining two buttons to 'Shift/Shazzam' and 'Exit'. Since I use Maximus Arcade as my frontend, I can put a timer on the 'Exit' button so you have to have it depressed for two seconds in order to actually exit the game.
MBaran:
I meant "wasting" because my Mini-Pac has inputs for up to 8 player buttons. I figure instead of using a p1-7 or p1-8 input for escape, if i could make a switch that closed both p1 and p2 and did the escape with just one button, rather than use p1-7 and re-map my keys in MAME.
Ginsu Victim:
Why not just remap the shifted keys?
CrazyKongFan:
I have a couple of small radio shack pushbuttons in the top left corner, one ESC and one TAB. I have a 3rd one betwenn the two players for P. I don't have shifting available, as I used a hacked keyboard. They're all pretty much out of the way and shouldn't accidentally get pushed.