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severdhed:
i have

an 8way stick and 6 buttons for each player,
4way stick for player1
p1 and p2 start buttons
I use the coin mechs for coin input, no buttons.
i use my pinball flipper buttons as pause in mame
trackball
spinner
two mouse buttons, one on either end of the control panel, near the pinball flippers.  That way they are there for windows use, but not on the main panel to clutter it up.
I use some emulators that require an Enter button be used, so i added two admin buttons to teh control panel, Esc and Enter.  esc is above p1 and enter is above p2.  I have mame configured to exit the game by pressing either esc or enter.  but i can still use the right one as an enter key for other emus.

shardian:
Since noone pointed it out, I will. An IPAC or a Keywiz keyboard encoder is equipped with a shift function. You can program the keywiz to make any keystroke you want with any combination of the buttons on the control panel.  You can get away with no extra admin buttons whatsoeverJust wanted to make sure you were aware of this.

Now, to make your cabinet user friendly, a dedicated exit key would be a good idea. That way people can switch games easily. A pause button is a good idea, but I prefer this to be hidden if possible. It detracts from the arcade experience in my opinion. Unless you are running a limited list of games that you have personally set up and calibrated settings-wise, it would be a good idea to include a volum control of some sort. you could locate a physical speaker control somewhere, or use the volume control in mame. Different games have different sound levels. I play nba hangtime alot, and you have to turn the volume way up to hear it.

Other than those, I see no reason for other physical buttons on the cab. The rest should be shift functions that only you know. I had to reinstall a copy of mame32 one time because my wife accidentally accessed the shift commands on my desktop cp. She changed a ton of button and command assignments, and somehow managed to remove the ability to access the tab command menu. Don't let this happen to you.

Negativecreep0:
can the ipac do num lok and scroll lk keys also???

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