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Zakk:
Hey jewel, if you feel the need to put 400 buttons on the panel, hey feel good about yourself.  If you had read the article it would be clear that I was getting my opinions from mistakes made to panels that I have done.  You see?  Criticising myself instead of attacking others to defend my mistakes.  Which is what I assume you are doing seeing all those buttons on that frankenpanel.  Hey, you feel good about it?  Great!  However I think I may have hit a couple of nerves eh?  4 players...tiny monitor....admin buttons up the ying yang....cadash cabinet...should I continue?

It's all opinion fella, don't feel personally attacked.  At least I am admitting to my past mistakes. 

Zakk:

--- Quote from: jelwell on March 31, 2006, 04:39:10 pm ---[Agreed, don't allow people to easily quit your frontent.

If you come over to my house to get out the front end you have to hit player 3 coin and player 1 start at the same time. then scroll down to exit then hit player 1 start. I used to have it so you had to pull the keyboard out but I've been, shamefully, popping out into windows a lot lately.
Joseph Elwell.

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Well Joseph, it sounds like you've got it down to a science!  Tell us more!  I am always eager to learn a better way to do things!  :)

Tahnok:

--- Quote from: jelwell on March 31, 2006, 04:39:10 pm ---
--- Quote from: RayB on March 30, 2006, 12:41:07 pm ---ESC and PAUSE.
And I also reprogram the front-end's Exit key so it's different than the one in MAME. I don't want people exiting the front-end.



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Agreed, don't allow people to easily quit your frontent.

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Definitely. I remapped MameWah's exit key to F1 and all the emulators to the standard esc. MameWah can only be exited using a keyboard.

Personally, I put the following on every panel:

Coin (one per player)
Pause
Reset
Exit

I've found people are less confused when they have a coin button of their own. Also, hiding admin buttons makes it look nicer, but makes it way harder when you are actually playing and have people around the cab. Just have them on top on the panel, within reach of everyone. Also, be sure to label them properly, so everyone knows what they all do.

leapinlew:

--- Quote ---I've found people are less confused when they have a coin button of their own.
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Not only that but some games require different coin slots to work properly. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Gauntlet, and The Simpsons just to name a few.

markrvp:
I think Joseph's cabinet was renamed the "Skittles" cabinet because with all the random colored buttons it looks like someone spilled a bag of Skittles on the CP.

I personally think the ZELDA control panel was incredible.  It got hammered by the Crapmame guy for being "console" themed.  Since the cabinet was a console cab, it made a lot of sense.  If you have seen the entire cabinet, you would realize that it all ties in beautifully and looks much better than the butchered CADASH cabinet Joseph has.

As one of the MAMEY judges, I can assure you that Joseph's cabinet would never get voted in, and that may be why he's throwing stones. 

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