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Title: 8 button games?
Post by: NoBonus on March 14, 2005, 02:38:22 pm

Are there ANY games in MAME that use 8 buttons?  What about N64? Does that system have 8 buttons + 2 sticks (1 analog, 1 digital)

Title: Re: 8 button games?
Post by: mahuti on March 14, 2005, 03:07:33 pm

There are many mah-jong games that use more than 8 buttons. There may also be some trivia games that do, but off -hand I can't think of any good games that requre 8.

Title: Re: 8 button games?
Post by: NoBonus on March 14, 2005, 04:06:43 pm

Excellent answer mahuti!  THanks!

Title: Re: 8 button games?
Post by: southpaw13 on March 14, 2005, 10:49:52 pm

According to Mame: games with 8 buttons...

Continental Circus
Top Speed
Stompin
Full Throttle

Title: Re: 8 button games?
Post by: cholin on March 14, 2005, 11:26:24 pm

The buttons in those games could be switching gears and stuff though.

Title: Re: 8 button games?
Post by: paigeoliver on March 14, 2005, 11:30:55 pm

Quote from: southpaw13 on March 14, 2005, 10:49:52 pm

According to Mame: games with 8 buttons...

Continental Circus
Top Speed
Stompin
Full Throttle

Of those 4, 3 of them are counting shifters as buttons, and the other one requires a DDR pad type controller to play.

So the correct answer is "None".

Title: Re: 8 button games?
Post by: Stingray on March 15, 2005, 10:48:12 am

Quote from: mahuti on March 14, 2005, 03:07:33 pm

There are many mah-jong games that use more than 8 buttons.

Does anyone outside of Asia even know how to play Mahjong? First thing I did after setting up my cab was delete all the Mahjong games.

-S

Title: Re: 8 button games?
Post by: NoBonus on March 15, 2005, 10:55:29 am

I know how to play regular Mahjong, but not arcade style Mahjong.

Title: Re: 8 button games?
Post by: paigeoliver on March 16, 2005, 05:03:31 am

I am pretty sure you not only need to know how to play Mahjong, but you also need to know how to read Japanese.

Title: Re: 8 button games?
Post by: Mojo2000 on March 16, 2005, 04:55:49 pm

Quote from: NoBonus on March 15, 2005, 10:55:29 am

I know how to play regular Mahjong, but not arcade style Mahjong.

NoBonus, in all likelihood, you know how to play Shanghai, which is a more simple tile-matching game using the same pieces as you would find in the much vaster game of Mahjong.  ;)

Title: Re: 8 button games?
Post by: Mojo2000 on March 16, 2005, 04:59:50 pm

Quote from: paigeoliver on March 16, 2005, 05:03:31 am

I am pretty sure you not only need to know how to play Mahjong, but you also need to know how to read Japanese.

Here's an English-language page where you could learn the basics. I seem to remember that it helped one of the MAME.net forum regulars appreciate the genre a lot more. Imagine, to unlock a whole boatload of hentai images on your cabinet. :P

http://tokyo.cool.ne.jp/barfhappy/