Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: RoboG2 on July 11, 2004, 09:47:35 pm
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Cant decide which one. Thanks in advance.
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You can probably answer your own question here.
What are you going to play?
Use whatever button setup gives you buttons to play that.
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My suggestion is 7 just so your bases are covered, but it really is up to you...
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how many games seriously really use all 7 buttons,
like 2?
6 certainly for fighting games (capcom etc)
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how many games seriously really use all 7 buttons,
like 2?
6 certainly for fighting games (capcom etc)
No games use all 7 buttons, but . . .
Some neo-geo games use all 4 buttons and the 7-button layout is easier for these than the square layout you would have with the Capcom six.
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The price of the extra button is worth it for playing neogeo games
I had 6 and changed it to 7 and never looked back!
Having the extra button has never been a problem to me.
btw, I have mine like this
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and thinking of redoing it this way
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but not sure if it would help anything.
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Cant decide which one. Thanks in advance.
I've commented on this several times, and here I go again.
I have a cab that uses the 7 button layout (6 Street Fighter style + one extra for Neo-Geo layout). In nearly two years with this machine, I have never, ever used the seventh button. I thought I'd be mapping Neo-Geo games to use that button, but the truth is that I really only play Neo-Geo shooters and puzzle games, and rarely use more than two buttons. On those rare occassions when I actually need four buttons, I found I like them better like this:
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The only advantage that I can find to the traditional mapping:
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is that the traditional mapping means it will match exactly the on-screen directions that some games have. I thought that would be useful, but it isn't. Next year I'm planning on re-doing that control panel, and one of the things I will probably do is eliminate the 7th button.
If you never play Neo-Geo fighting games, then I wouldn't bother with the seventh button. If you do, then it is completely a personal choice. What do you think you'd like better? I thought I'd like the Neo-Geo layout, but I found out I didn't. But I completely understand why some people prefer the "proper" layout (I go nuts if I the joystick I use for playing Pac-Man is off-center).
-Jeff "etumor"
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Cant decide which one. Thanks in advance.
Next year I'm planning on re-doing that control panel, and one of the things I will probably do is eliminate the 7th button.
I had a look at your website and still think that's one of the sharpest ways to integrate all the controls without having a jumbled mess.
Will be interesting to see what the re-design looks like.