Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: electricd on January 10, 2006, 10:04:50 am
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Hello.
I am finally finishing up a couple arcade machines that I started months ago. I bought the cabs from DreamArcades so they already had predrilled holes for controls. 4 players, 7 buttons each. There are also 4 buttons across the top that are extra. What should I assign to those buttons...i was thinking ESC, P (pause) and then I am stuck. I don't want the people to be able to get into the menus from the cabinet (as it will be out in the open for anyone to use or *break*!). Anyway any suggestions on the other 2 buttons.
Also, what keys should I assign to buttons 5,6 and 7 on the player 3 and 4? The mame default only shows RCTRL, RSHFT,ENTER.O for Player 3 and B,E,H,M for Player 4. What should the other 3 buttons be mapped to? Thanks in advance!
ED7
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You didn't say, but you could always use them for "O" and "K"
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Yea that would be good in most cases. I re-authored Mame so it wouldn't ask for that though. Thanks for the suggestions. Any others?
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Hello.
I am finally finishing up a couple arcade machines that I started months ago.
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Yea that would be good in most cases. I re-authored Mame so it wouldn't ask for that though. Thanks for the suggestions. Any others?
You just made my day ;D
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fw/reset
tab
and then I'm wiring a power button for my computer.
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Yea that would be good in most cases.
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Label one of them "Global Thermonuclear War" and then have it launch a batch file that prints "Initiating self-destruct sequence, launching missiles, this device will self destruct in 5 seconds, then plays the ending sequence from Missile Command and turns the cabinet off.
I'm adding this button to my cabinet asap!
I have 3 admin buttons on the shorty cabinet for simple use by 4-7 year olds. "Load" "Pause" "Escape" This allows just about anyone to load and unload a game without direction. I would add "Tab" to the fourth one, but not label it.
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Yea that would be good in most cases. I re-authored Mame so it wouldn't ask for that though. Thanks for the suggestions. Any others?
You just made my day ;D
I wanna know how he did that. I have a second control panel that I put 50 buttons on (all alphabet and then the numbers 0-9 and shift, fKeys and ESC) so I could easily just button-type out whatever I needed.
Really works nice if you ever need to SMS someone from your MAME cab, too.
You're starting to make my head hurt
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These are great suggestions..yea I am using the IPAC 4 and already have the coin/start buttons in there (so these are in addition to those.) I am thinking an Enter, Escape, Tab, and a "Global Nuclear War" button! ;D. Thanks for all the great replies!
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You're really going to want that Pause button, that's all anyone asks me about, and they can't seem to grasp the whole "P1 Start + Joy 1 Down" concept.
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Oh yea...forgot...I have pause built into another button on that console! You wouldn't believe the amount of buttons that were pre-drilled in that panel! For peats sake, there were 4 buttons for the spinner! ARe there even any games that use 4 buttons with the spinner??
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For peats sake, there were 4 buttons for the spinner!
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You're starting to make my head hurt
Good, because I think there's a competition going on here, and that's the first sign I've seen of me taking the lead.
You're just jealous.
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You're starting to make my head hurt
Good, because I think there's a competition going on here, and that's the first sign I've seen of me taking the lead.
You're just jealous.
This calls for something sthuper. I shall ward off the man with eleventy brazilian buttons with the patented defense of retarditty:
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Put it on your dashboard and label it EJECT. See who is the first to push it.