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Your 2P CP, how and WHY?
Franco:
--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on May 12, 2005, 10:35:21 am ---
The neo-geo games used 4 buttons, so you will also see a thumb button sharing one of the buttons in the unused (upper or lower rows), or a very practical (but requires a wider panel) option is:
1 2 3 4
4 5 6
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Brilliant! Ive got my CP layout just like this, but had my keys set up like
1 2 3 7
4 5 6
I have been going through every neo geo game and setting 7 to the 4th button, I would never have thought of having 4 and 7 (in my case) as the same button. Thanks for the tip!
tetsujin:
--- Quote from: tore- on May 12, 2005, 10:46:09 am ---Never looked at it that way, thanks alot. If any other user here have some views of this please feel free!
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Here's what I think...
Basically, if you're playing MAME games you can remap all this stuff anyway. In any case, no one layout is going to automatically be right for every game, even if the buttons' positions are fixed you can do better by customizing the mapping. So in the end it doesn't matter. Perhaps at most you want to minimize the amount of remapping you do.
In that sense, it'd be better to have the low-numbered buttons on the bottom. That way, games that don't use many (3 or less) buttons will be relatively comfortable to play with no setup at all. Then you treat the games that use 4 or more buttons, or games that have some weird button layout, as the exception, and configure their inputs to match your panel. This assumes that most of the games you'll play don't have many buttons.
Lilwolf:
Have two rom directories. One for 2player 8way with 6 button games (really covers almost all of them) and one for all the rest.
Then configure two mames. One with 123/456 and one with 456/123... Then use a good frontend that allows you to have more then one version of mame.
problem solved.
paigeoliver:
--- Quote from: tetsujin on May 12, 2005, 05:54:11 pm ---
--- Quote from: tore- on May 12, 2005, 10:46:09 am ---Never looked at it that way, thanks alot. If any other user here have some views of this please feel free!
--- End quote ---
Here's what I think...
Basically, if you're playing MAME games you can remap all this stuff anyway. In any case, no one layout is going to automatically be right for every game, even if the buttons' positions are fixed you can do better by customizing the mapping. So in the end it doesn't matter. Perhaps at most you want to minimize the amount of remapping you do.
In that sense, it'd be better to have the low-numbered buttons on the bottom. That way, games that don't use many (3 or less) buttons will be relatively comfortable to play with no setup at all. Then you treat the games that use 4 or more buttons, or games that have some weird button layout, as the exception, and configure their inputs to match your panel. This assumes that most of the games you'll play don't have many buttons.
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Yep, I tend to remap controls and change dip switch settings ALL THE TIME. If a game only uses one button then I might map all 6 buttons to "fire" for that game. If it is 2 player alternating I might map both sets of controls as active, so the players won't have to switch positions (don't do this if you have children).
Dexter:
My own preference....
456
123
4
Your thumb working the 4th neogeo button. It's comfortable enough to use for extended periods.
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