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Title: Any mahjong/hanafuda control panel examples?
Post by: Kaeru the Frog on June 07, 2003, 09:52:33 pm

I finished my first contol panel about two weeks ago. Its an ugly wooden box but plays great :). Now I'm thinking about making a combonation mahjong/hanfuda contol panel. Does anyone have any links to real or homemage mahjong panels? I've only found these (http://www.riverservice.co.jp/PARTS/conpane_e.html) two (http://mamecheats.fateback.com/best.htm) pages on Google but I can't make out anything. I would really like to know how the buttons are layed out and button sizes. Is there a standard button layout?

Title: Re:Any mahjong/hanafuda control panel examples?
Post by: paigeoliver on June 08, 2003, 12:22:21 am

There are several examples of the standard Mahjong layouts here.

http://www.riverservice.co.jp/PARTS/conpane_e.html

Title: Re:Any mahjong/hanafuda control panel examples?
Post by: b3atmania on June 08, 2003, 07:22:10 am

Some more examples here (http://www.sanwa-d.co.jp/p_panel.htm).
I'm hunting for pictures where I can make out the Japanese text as well. There seems to be an industry default layout for mahjong/hanafuda panels, so best to adhere to that layout.

The largest pic I could find is this one. From left to right, the lower row reads: KOIN (coin), SUTA-TO (start), [hard to read, but I think it says] ?? BUROKKU (? block), [skipping next one, can't read], KAN, PON, CHI- (chi), RI-CHI (reach), RON.

Some panels have some additional buttons for betting. Would be best to include those as well.
(http://www.setup-japan.com/photo/majan_p.jpg)

Title: Re:Any mahjong/hanafuda control panel examples?
Post by: Kaeru the Frog on June 08, 2003, 01:08:51 pm

I found three more pictures. Two from KLOV and one of the Neo Geo controller.

http://www.klov.com/images/M/nMahjong_-_Chinese.jpg (http://www.klov.com/images/M/nMahjong_-_Chinese.jpg)
http://www.klov.com/images/M/nMahjong_-_Japanese.jpg (http://www.klov.com/images/M/nMahjong_-_Japanese.jpg)
http://www.neostore.com/images/products/mahjong.jpg (http://www.neostore.com/images/products/mahjong.jpg)

The only button I can make out is the 'bet' button on the chinese panel.

Title: Re:Any mahjong/hanafuda control panel examples?
Post by: u_rebelscum on June 09, 2003, 01:03:39 am

Try checking what they are called in mame; mame driver seem to call them by their mahjong name, not the normal P1B1 like names.  I don't know chinese or japanese, but the name's in mame might help narrow down the names on the panels.  *shrug*