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Has anyone built a 4-plyr pedestal unit yet?
daveg2000:
Dreamcast tests good through the plexiglass.
Just got a 2nd gun off ebay.. so my 3 or 4 shooters for DC
definately will be incorporated into the cabinet.
Hooked up the PC to my 32" tv and tested S-Video.
Everything played like a dream. Much better than
on the 21" PC monitor.
On a TV, everything runs at the same size on the screen...
where on a monitor.. it was a hassle trying to stretch
certain games to the edges of the screen.
Cant wait to get going on this.
BY THE WAY.. Sears has a 32" Tv W/S-Video right now on sale
for DIRT CHEAP till 2/26...
I'll probably be picking mine up in the next day or two.
:)
daveg2000:
Sorry.. I feel like I am 'post happy' today....
Is there ANY REASON if I am mainly using Mame/Daphne
That I would NEED more than 4 buttons for players 3 & 4 on a 4 plyr CTRL
Panel? I can't think of any reasons...
except for if I wanted to 'spread out' and play a game as player1 way on
the end of the control panel....
Any reasons you can think of in Mame/Daphne why I would want to
have 6 buttons on the ends of the control panel instead of 4?
I'd hate to have to go back later and add 2 more for some stupid reason....
johnnysmitch:
^^ this one has come up a lot. Basically, the consensus seems to be that no more than 4 buttons are needed for players 3 and 4 in mame, and there really aren't many games for the emulators (i'm thinking primarily NES, SNES, Sega) that are 4 player and need a bunch of buttons. When you get to the newer console games, even 6 buttons probably isn't going to be enough anyways, and many use analog control and can't really be played well on standard arcade controls anyways (2d fighters an exception, of course). What I'd recommend (and what I did on mine) is that you use the standard 4 buttons for players 3 and 4, and put some contoller ports on your machine so that you can plug in console controllers (I used PSX USB adaptors on mine) for the odd times when you need more buttons for players 3 and 4, or just want to use a controller for the games you're playing (3d games, for instance...) Hope this helps. Cheers!
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