How many buttons are supported for players 3 & 4?

[thetered]

When looking for ideas for my four player panel I ran into one who said he wished he had only used four buttons instead of six for 3 & 4 because they were not supported or used in any games?  Is this correct?

[Mugzilla]

IIRC, Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter BOTH have >4 buttons.



I am willing to bet your "friend" is setting up an iPac card, right?

(With buttons 5 and 6 for P2 on an iPac card, you must MANUALLY ADD them.)

Sorry, I don't remember how to do this...

[Tiger-Heli]

Mugzilla:  IIRC, Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter BOTH only support two players.

Thetered - Generally you are correct.  Only the Dungeons & Dragons games in MAME use 4 buttons, but a lot of games use 3.  No arcade games use more than 4.

You might want more than 4 for console emulation, but you would be better not adding these to the cab, or using gamepads, IMHO.

[Mugzilla]

Mugzilla:

[Howard_Casto]

actually...... the ipac has those buttons defiend, it's mame that doesn't give them an input by default. 


Don't listen to the others, your assumption is corrrect.  Even on game consoles, 4 player games (that you can actually play on your cab) don't need more than 4 buttons.

[nickbuol]

I waa actually going to go with 7 buttons for all 3 players on my CP.  I ran across this topic in the past and know that 4 buttons is about the max for players 3 and 4, but I like the uniform look of all players having the same buttons.  Function vs. asthetics for me.  I doubt I will ever do console emulation, so they really are a "waste" but I will be using the IPAC-4 and buttons are cheap.  With a 48" wide CP, I have pleanty of space for another couple of buttons for each player.  I know others would argue that they like as "empty" or "clean" of a CP as possible.

To each his own I guess.

[IntruderAlert]

you would be better not adding these to the cab, or using gamepads, IMHO.

what do you mean?

[Veinman]

He means that console emulation is better with gamepads as opposed to arcade controls, so you might want to consider no more than 4 buttons for P3 and P4.

[TalkingOctopus]

actually...... the ipac has those buttons defiend, it's mame that doesn't give them an input by default.

[thetered]

I waa actually going to go with 7 buttons for all 3 players on my CP.  I ran across this topic in the past and know that 4 buttons is about the max for players 3 and 4, but I like the uniform look of all players having the same buttons.  Function vs. asthetics for me.  I doubt I will ever do console emulation, so they really are a "waste" but I will be using the IPAC-4 and buttons are cheap.  With a 48" wide CP, I have pleanty of space for another couple of buttons for each player.  I know others would argue that they like as "empty" or "clean" of a CP as possible.

To each his own I guess.


I'm using an old Gauntlet cab so my panel will be a little cramped so anything i can do to free up space here and there would be great, but I understand where you are coming from!

[Tiger-Heli]

He means that console emulation is better with gamepads as opposed to arcade controls, so you might want to consider no more than 4 buttons for P3 and P4.

That's what I meant.  Thanks!!!

[jcrouse]

http://www.sealiecomputing.com/retrozone/

John

[AlanS17]

http://www.sealiecomputing.com/retrozone/

John

I've seen those controllers for sale before before, but that's a good link.