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Number of buttons for a Bartop?
Green Giant:
--- Quote from: Knievel on January 26, 2012, 05:19:09 pm ---lol. Doing this one on the cheap I'm afraid, won't be anything revolutionary. :laugh:
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:cry:
--- Quote from: Knievel on January 26, 2012, 05:19:09 pm ---Great feedback as always here.
Appreciate that link Dave. Lew you've got some great bartops there, nice work.
I am using 2 8-way joys and a horizontal screen in this.
Hoping the 8-ways will be playable with Pac-man and alike, time will tell.
I'm thinking 3 buttons in a pyramid shape at this point.
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I think you need at least 4 buttons. The neo-geo options are too good to pass up.
As for the joys, you could go for a mechanical switching stick. There is a bartop someone is building that uses an actuator, I think, to mechanically switch the joys between 8-way and 4-way. One of these guys knows which one I am talking about.
leapinlew:
--- Quote from: Knievel on January 26, 2012, 05:19:09 pm ---Hoping the 8-ways will be playable with Pac-man and alike, time will tell.
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Prepare to be unhappy. Maybe you can look into the mapable 8 ways like the 360 from Ultimarc. Try out a switch based 8 way with Ms Pac and Donkey Kong - it's frustrating.
Unstupid:
--- Quote from: Green Giant on January 26, 2012, 05:33:20 pm ---I think you need at least 4 buttons. The neo-geo options are too good to pass up.
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What the Giant said...... BTW this CP is 16" wide:
Le Chuck:
--- Quote from: Knievel on January 26, 2012, 05:19:09 pm ---lol. Doing this one on the cheap I'm afraid, won't be anything revolutionary. :laugh:
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Hoping the 8-ways will be playable with Pac-man and alike, time will tell.
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They aren't. Well, they are but it's lack-luster. I'm not a 360 convert yet so I recommend Magstick+s or do a servo auto switch hook-up on a good bottom switching joy. Added cost for the servo and controller is in the $40 neighborhood for everything and one servo can control both joys. Magstiks are something I've never tried but they are physically restricted so +1 for that camp. Servos just make ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- ballin tho.
+87 to the fourth button. Way to handy and no loss of real-estate.
That said, I'm a total Knievel fanboy and will gawk and swoon over what ever you build like a ---smurfette---. Because I always do.
Le Chuck:
--- Quote from: Green Giant on January 26, 2012, 05:33:20 pm ---There is a bartop someone is building that uses an actuator, I think, to mechanically switch the joys between 8-way and 4-way. One of these guys knows which one I am talking about.
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cough cough AHEM!
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