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Ed ONeill:
Ok I am in the process of building a laptop mame machine and I have limited space on the control panel 1 player only.

It is obviously going to have 1 joystick and  6/7 seven buttons on the right of the joystick, so you can play as many games as possible. To the left I was going to put coin1, coin2, player1, and  player2, but then I started wondering......

From what I remember....the old classic 2 player alternating games (ex pacman /frogger..etc) those  wouldn't need  2 coin buttons.

Now having said that...
 Can anyone remember/name a game that I might need to have a second coin button.

Thanks in advance
Ed

JustMichael:
Several multiplayer games need more than 1 coin "button" because depending upon which coin button is pressed determines which player will be used.

Ed ONeill:
JustMichael ,

The games you refer to are they alternating 2 player games?

The only way to player 2  player games on this machine is if they alternate .

Signed
Ed

NoOne=NBA=:
I can't think of any games that use two coin slots independently, with a single set of controls, so you should be good with one coinup.

Make sure you wire it to coin1 though.
I seem to remember a few games that won't accept coins in the coin2 slot because they didn't HAVE a coin2 slot on the original machines.

Ed ONeill:

--- Quote from: NoOne=NBA= on June 16, 2004, 07:48:09 pm ---I can't think of any games that use two coin slots independently, with a single set of controls, so you should be good with one coinup.

--- End quote ---

I was told only one but I just wanted to make sure .

Anyways I made a temporary control panel with both coin1 and coin2. You can see it in the project announcement forum, the thread name is "mame on the move ". I am hoping to eliminate the coin2 button and re configure the left side of the control panel 3 buttons instead of 4.

Let me know what you think

Signed
Ed

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