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| markronz:
Hello- I am currently starting to design my control panel and I was just wondering why some control panels that I've seen out there have 7 buttons for each player? I was planning on just using 6 buttons, but once I looked around I saw that 7 buttons was fairly popular. Is there a lot of roms out there that use 7 buttons for each player? Or could someone explain why 7? Thanks |
| Hoopz:
The 7th button is layed out to be the 4th button of a Neo Geo layout. A lot of peole use a lay out so that the bottom row has buttons 1-3 with button setup being used for the offset 4th button. No arcade games use the 7th button so it's entirely personal preference. |
| markronz:
Ok, that makes sense. I personally am not into Neo Geo, so I think I will stick with my 6 button layout. Thanks a lot! |
| Justin Z:
Hey markronz keep in mind it makes games like say NBA Jam a lot more comfortable to play because of the hand position for using three buttons. You can use the 7th, the 4th and the 5th O O O And it's a lot more comfortable than using 1-3, 4-6, or even 4, 2 and 3. Justin |
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