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Brax:
Looks really nice. I think it'll work out fine. Reminds me of Gauntlet.
I'm feeling warm and fuzzy!
Uh oh, better get the blue ointment out again.
Dr. J:
I like the second one better, and if you do that you may not need the 4th button on the top row. You could use the bottom row of 3 plus that "run" button for neogeo games.
I'm guessing your planning on n64 emulation (super smash brothers!) or something in addition to mame. If you're only running Mame though, it only needs a max of 4 buttons for players 3 and 4 plus additional start buttons for the Dungeons and Dragons games. That will save you some space on the cp.
You may want to scrap the labeling of players 1, 2, 3, and 4. Some games like TMNT have it so Player 1 is always the furthest left, though I guess you chould change that by remapping the coin buttons within mame for that individual game. The Simpsons is like that as well (another konami game).
I like the color separation, but I have an additional idea/suggestion. Perhaps in photoshop you could enlarge each players graphic (mario) and make it transparent, and saturated with that players color. So for player1 there would be a large reddish transparent mario filling that section of the cp. Just throwing that idea in for you.
Looks good. -Jay
SNAAAKE:
--- Quote from: DeathMonk on March 14, 2003, 10:01:32 am ---Looks nice... But you have to consider is that 4 player games didn't usually use more than 2-3 buttons (someone correct me if im wrong!).. So the 3rd and 4th player setup would kind of be a waste.. Also, personally, if I did a 4 player cp, I would make more room for the 1 and 2 players since you will probably playing those types of games more.. Not unless you have to have everything evenly spaced :)
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Its for future console games..
Like you know,if you wanna play 3 players sfa3 then you CAN ! ;D.
Like how we used to play..me alone against my 2 brothers(dreamcast version of course).
Its really fun !I won most of the time even though I am fighting 2 people at once(yes I know I rule when it comes to any street fighter :o).
Zinfari:
DJ good call on the 1-4 player thing... hadn't really thought about it. I'll either pull the text or replace it with something else that isn't player specifig. Also means that I need to replace my 1-4 player white buttons I had been planning on useing... hmmm....
I think I'm going to keep all 8 buttons at this point. Mainly because I like them, I have room and hopefully it future proofs me a bit (at least that's what I"m hoping :D)
As far as the large transparent images... I tried it out and it looks pretty good, but I just don't have high enough res pictures to pull it off. I have to scale the images about 500% and they are just to grainy when scaled that far. I'll post them later when I get a chance so you can see what they look like.
Keep the comments coming!
Thanks,
-Zinfari
SirPoonga:
I have a hack on my site for mame that will "sense" pnumber of players and you can remap accordingly.
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