Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: JQ on May 07, 2002, 03:13:49 pm
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I just got my IPAC-4, joysticks, and buttons. I used a spare piece of plywood to try a generic layout to see if I liked the placement of the controllers. Since the IPAC had wire hookups for 8 buttons, I laid out two rows of buttons, four on top and four on the bottom. Everything worked great, but I began to realize that I was rarely using the fourth buttons with the games I tried.
I could see the need for the four buttons across when playing some neo-geo games, and having two rows of 3 buttons across for some of the fighting games that I play. My problem is will I actually need to use the buttons that are mapped to "C" and "V" (I think those are the right keys). I haven't come across any games that use these yet. I wanted to find out if anyone knows of any games that need these buttons.
Daniel
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haven't tried myself with MAJONG games but i heard that you need 16 Buttons to play it...maybe thats the only one type of game that requires Player 1 and 2 buttons to combine to be as player 1.
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You can have 4 across the bottom, wire the buttons like this:
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The only thing that would use 8 buttons are Playstation games or EA Sports games. So if you plan on using you Mame cabinet to play PC games, you may want add the buttons.
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There are some mame games that use 8 buttons.
http://www.mame.dk/?special=8buttons
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There are some mame games that use 8 buttons.
http://www.mame.dk/?special=8buttons
Are you sure the information on that website is accurate? Most of the games listed are driving games. I don't see how a driving game could possibly need 8 buttons.
Also if you look up Defender(Red Label)it says the game requires an 8 way joystick and 6 buttons. I always thought defender used 5 buttons (fire, thrust, reverse, hyperspace, smartbomb), and a 2 way joystick.