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horseboy:
4-way, 8-way side by side. I almost never see this but it is incredibly functional and much more comfortable to use than sticking a dedicated 4-way off in some strange place on the panel. You see you can install a 4-way stick and an 8-way stick with the bases touching each other, both using the same button bank. The sticks don't get in the way of each other as long as the 8-way is taller and the 4-way is located to the left of the 8-Way.

QuixoteQuest:
If I go into standby my u360s don't work upon rewake--having to relaunch UltraMap again--and sometimes my Happ trackball doesn't work. I have to restart to get it to work again or go into control panels or plug/unplug the device which is a pain since wiring is inside the cab.

Sure wish I could make standby work. I agree it's cool to hide Windows away if you can.

(+_+):

--- Quote from: horseboy on March 14, 2007, 03:30:55 pm ---4-way, 8-way side by side. I almost never see this but it is incredibly functional and much more comfortable to use than sticking a dedicated 4-way off in some strange place on the panel. You see you can install a 4-way stick and an 8-way stick with the bases touching each other, both using the same button bank. The sticks don't get in the way of each other as long as the 8-way is taller and the 4-way is located to the left of the 8-Way.

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Or simply use the ultrastick, the Mag-Stik Plus or any other with similar offerings and reduce the joystick clutter. It may be a trade off between an authentic feel and clutter, but then again that is entirely up to personal preference.

Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: (+_+) on March 14, 2007, 10:52:37 am ---Speaking of number 3, I've already starting adding built in help into my application. I'm almost done with the joys/keys to use per game with action labels and will add admin controller functionality later on. I prefer that over having stickers because you have very limited real estate and there 's just too much info that you can reveal to the person. A picture with labels can say a 1000 words.

Here's a sample. Bear with me though since it is still in development so it isn't perfect yet.

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A related suggestion is doing the above with Johnny5 and Controls.ini - like this: http://www.mameworld.net/tigerheli/johnny/

unclet:
How about ....... using the correct thickness of T-molding on the control panel trim so the sides of the control panel top (including the plexiglass) are covered to give the control panel a much more finished look.

Gotta be in the Top10 .....  right Paige?


Tiger-Heli
I have images of my control panel mappings for all of my 30+ non-mame emulators.  I am just waiting for some frontend (MALA hopefully) to offer the ability to display an image when the emulator is paused .  I do not know of any front end which does this yet.   Since I am mainly interested in being able to view the control panel mapping image when the game is paused, I have not looked into Johnny5 or CPViewer .... I simply show the players the image manually now (ie: get it out and place it on the table next to the cabinet).

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