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Turf:
Are there any games out there that use more than 6 buttons?  I'm sure there are, but I'm working on my CP and I'm trying to decide how to place all my buttons.  I have 19 buttons to work with.  Right now, I'm planning 6 player buttons, coin, and start for each player = 16 buttons so far.  Then and Esc, Pause, and a Shift for Admin buttons. 
Back to the original question, what games use more than those 6 buttons?  This is kind of a cost vs. reward type decision.

WhereEaglesDare:
I cant think of any.  I explored the same question not long ago.

Don:
No arcade games really use more than 6 buttons. If you're playing console games then you might be happy to have an extra button but generally games that require more than 6 buttons to play dont suit arcade controls.

A lot of people but a seventh button down and to the left of the 6 buttons (assuming a street fighter layout) so that they can have the 4 bottom buttons for NEO-GEO games. Also mortal kombat 3 and 4 had the 'run' button in this position. So if you have spare buttons, enough space and dont mind a little extra button configuring in MAME you might consider using a 7 button layout.

WhereEaglesDare:
how do you tell mame that the 7th button is NEOGEO's 1st button?  and still keep all the others in a 6 button configuration??

If I could figure this out then I would put in a 7th button!

Also how do you use GameEx's CPViewer to fix it so thatit tells you the panel configs for NeoGeo Games.

Don:

--- Quote from: WhereEaglesDare on May 15, 2010, 02:59:48 pm ---how do you tell mame that the 7th button is NEOGEO's 1st button?  and still keep all the others in a 6 button configuration??

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Apart from changing the config for each game manually im not sure. You could use a different emulator for your neo-geo games, like FinalBurn Alpha, and map the controls in that to use the 4 buttons. I use this emulator as it runs neo-geo and cps2 games better than MAME on my verry old pc :). I also use the front-end AtomicFE which allows you to have games from different emulators in one screen, and so i can still have all my arcade games in the one screen. If there is no way to change all your neo-geo configurations in mame in one go you might consider that option :)

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