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Designed my layout, opinions please.
zaphod:
I agree that your ESC key is not in the best location. I have the pause button where your ESC key is. I programmed the I-Pac to make that the Shift key. Pressing the Pause and P2-start creates the ESC, in my example. As jdjuggler mentioned, you could use some of P-1's buttons for the mouse buttons. I use buttons 5 & 6 for the two mouse buttons. Frees up space on your panel. In my opinion, I'd eliminate most of your admin buttons and just define them with the I-PAC.
RedSquirrel:
--- Quote from: zaphod on June 06, 2003, 12:00:46 pm ---I agree that your ESC key is not in the best location. I have the pause button where your ESC key is. I programmed the I-Pac to make that the Shift key. Pressing the Pause and P2-start creates the ESC, in my example. As jdjuggler mentioned, you could use some of P-1's buttons for the mouse buttons. I use buttons 5 & 6 for the two mouse buttons. Frees up space on your panel. In my opinion, I'd eliminate most of your admin buttons and just define them with the I-PAC.
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yeah I might get rid of the admin buttons.
But the thing was, you can assign the buttons to other keys right?
P.S I was using 6 buttons per player with the 7th "cloned" from button 4 or whatever for neo geo games (thats right, right?). Leaving me four buttons.
zaphod:
--- Quote from: RedSquirrel on June 06, 2003, 06:32:51 pm ---But the thing was, you can assign the buttons to other keys right?
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Absolutely! I have my two trackball buttons wired to player 1's 5 & 6. In Mame's ctrlr default def, I define button 5 as input Mouse_button_1 and 6 as _button2. In Windows they perform just like the left- and right-click. In Mame, they are seen as buttons 5 & 6.
I have my Pause button (upper left button on yours) wired into the I-Pac as button 7 (as I only have 6 buttons on the CP). The I-Pac sees that as a 'P' as well as the Shift key, to make all your admin functions work. Then just assign the Shift functions you want to the buttons that are the most convenient. It's a lot easier than I make it sound. Very nice configuration utility handles it all.
By redefining keys in software, you eliminate a lot of button clutter. That's just what I did. It's ultimately your controller so make it however you wish. As you can see in all the examples on this site, there are a lot of differing designs, all which work just fine.