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Can I get away with four buttons in the control panel of my mame project?

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Dragonman73:

I have a soul edge cabinet (I'm converting to mame) and it has four buttons for each player, this had me thinking...can I get away with four buttons for most mame games or do I need to have six?

I'm trying to make this as easy as possible and user friendly for the users, plus it would be nice to have the four extra inputs so I can use to of them for FE duties. I have a 24 input encoder.

Suggestions?

Thanks again!

cptnwhlz:

It really depends what you like to play.  You will miss out on street fighter, but most games are 4 buttons or less.

DaveMMR:

Let MAWS be your guide....

But yeah, what cptnhlz said.  Six buttons is a versatile layout for those wanting to play the Street Fighter games (II, etc.) and even Mortal Kombat (1, 2 used five; 3 and Ultimate used six - I stopped paying attention after that).  If any of those games are important to you, go with six.

Otherwise, four will cover a whole lot of games (including all Neo-Geo games).

Malenko:


--- Quote from: DaveMMR on June 28, 2009, 08:27:01 pm ---Let MAWS be your guide....

But yeah, what cptnhlz said.  Six buttons is a versatile layout for those wanting to play the Street Fighter games (II, etc.) and even Mortal Kombat (1, 2 used five; 3 and Ultimate used six - I stopped paying attention after that).  If any of those games are important to you, go with six.

Otherwise, four will cover a whole lot of games (including all Neo-Geo games).

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And that's pretty much your answer. Really only the fighters use more then 4. I'm a huge fan of the 7 button layout, it makes street fighter and neo-geo equally accessible but if you aren't into those 4 is plenty but its the first steps towards a frankenpanel.

It's quite refreshing to see someone who wants 2 sticks and 4 buttons each instead of 4 sticks, 6 buttons each 2 spinners, a 4 way, 2 trackballs, 9 admin buttons, and a flight stick all on the same panel.

cptnwhlz:


--- Quote from: Malenko on June 28, 2009, 09:43:54 pm ---It's quite refreshing to see someone who wants 2 sticks and 4 buttons each instead of 4 sticks, 6 buttons each 2 spinners, a 4 way, 2 trackballs, 9 admin buttons, and a flight stick all on the same panel.

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amen.  I rebuilt my control panel about 4 times over the past years, always moving stuff off of it..

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