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Converted PacMan Cocktail to MAME Cab
Hornpipe2:
--- Quote from: Curbfeeler on December 24, 2008, 02:51:43 pm ---
--- Quote ---Are you dead set on 6 buttons? I can't see many 6 button vertical games on MAWS that I would want to play.
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To be really honest with you, I'm not dead set on anything. :dunno I'm ashamed to admit this, but out of all those buttons, the only ones I have wired up are the two red ones. Even so, I've been able to play almost everything I really enjoy. So perhaps that's a sign that six buttons are overkill. :-[
Will people laugh at me if I admit that I've been playing a few horizontal games on my cab?
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Six is too many for vertical games - the most I think you will ever need is 4 (Vanguard). For horizontal you might need six - but IIRC the kind of horizontal games that need six buttons are usually fighters, and for those you really need to be able to get two players side-to-side to have much fun.
However, some horizontal games DO work well on a vertical cabinet, as long as you re-map the controls to fit the new orientation - check out the very bottom list on this wiki page: http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Lists (Consider adding enough controls to support three players in Super Sprint or four on Warlords, it's worth it!)
Of course it's your cab, so you can play whatever you want on it. What I would do is design it for the vertical games you want to play, and then throw on the horizontal ones that still work with your button choices. Later on if you build an upright horizontal cabinet, you won't end up with useless buttons on the cocktail when you remove the horizontal games from it.
EDIT: I should add that MAWS is wrong on the button search a lot of times - for example, it lists Heavy Barrel as needing 5 buttons, when it's really 2 or 3 + rotating joystick. Be sure to check the History section to get a second opinion on how many buttons are needed to play. And don't forget that you can get creative with mapping buttons for certain games - for example, on my cabinet Hold on Warlords is mapped over 1P Start (else I wouldn't have enough buttons!)
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