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Curved vs Straight button layout.....let's settle this with a poll.

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shponglefan:

--- Quote from: AGarv on August 24, 2013, 10:44:21 am ---Great post.  As a community we create machines to play games that are usually 10 to 30 years old.  We create these machines to capture the feel and ergonomics of the original game.
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Well no, this isn't necessarily true.  And I think this is where there is a disconnect between the "purist" mentality versus those who just want to build an arcade machine and have fun.  Not everyone's motivations, needs, wants, etc are the same; and some people here need to understand and accept that.

A perfect example of this would be something like a fighting game "hit box".  It's completely non-standard way of controlling a fighting game; definitely not what you'd find on an old-school SF II cabinet.  But that doesn't mean it's not a perfectly viable way to control said games.

Further, I think anyone who really is looking to capture the true feel of the original arcade games, should be playing them on an original cab.  Anything less is a compromise; whether it's using a PC w/ MAME, non-original arcade monitor, non-original controls, and so on.  There is going to be a compromise somewhere; it's not a matter of "if", but "how much".  At which point people's questioning other's authencity is just a bunch of pots and kettles.

shponglefan:

--- Quote from: paigeoliver on August 23, 2013, 11:12:39 pm ---Now go look at your average scratchbuild around here. You will often see the edge of the control panel inexplicably come out 3" past the front of the control panel box, which itself is coming out 8" inches past the front of the cabinet, then about a foot further down the cabinet will inexplicably kick in another 10"-12" where an impossible to reach coin door is then placed. The end result can be a cabinet that will flip forward onto the ground if a toddler decides to hang on the edge of the control panel. End result, dead child.
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Several things:

1) Dead toddlers may not be terribly relevant if one does not have toddlers running around their home.
2) Lots of things in households can be "flip-over" hazards; again it may or may not be relevant.
3) Unless you've actually tested the cabs in question, I doubt you make a blanket statement simply by looking at some pictures.
4) Based on what I've seen of scratchbuilds here, I think you exaggerate.  A lot.


--- Quote ---Even without the flip over hazard, aesthetically a lot of custom builds have control panels that don't look like they are part of the machine, they look like they came off of something else entirely.
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That may be true for some, but that's purely a question of aesthetics and not really relevant with respect to innovation or novelty.  Anyone can make a fugly cabinet, so I don't see how that's particularly relevant.

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