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Help designing first control panel
bluevolume:
I've been searching for design ideas for my control panel, but I still have some questions. I'm confused on buttons, and how to include a 4-way joystick. This will be part of the "Hit The Mame" project I have listed in the projects board.
With the 7 button layout, does the 7th button essentially become button 1 for all games? Or would I need to reconfigure all my neo-geo games to use b7 as b1? Also, if you only have 6 buttons, would button 1 be on the top row or bottom row?
If I include a 4-way joystick on this 2 player control panel, do I simply wire the stick and its buttons to the same terminals as joystick 1?
Here's the games I will be playing, and hoping that my control panel will support:
MK 1,2,3; Altered Beast, Galaga, Bubble Bobble, Ms. PacMan, Metal Slug series, Golden Tee series. I'm sure there will be others once I get the cabinet finished and realize what's all there.
Attached is a simple design i came up with using the template I downloaded here. Its a zip since I can't attach a VSD.
xmenxmen:
The 7th button, it all depends on what you set the default config to be. If you set the bottom 4 button as 1 to 4, then you will only have to re-config games with more than 4 button like street fighter.
On the 4 way, most (me guessing) set it up as setup input and just remap the button to games that uses 4way. But yes, you can also wire them together if you like.
I would really consider moving the 4way more to the left so when you won't be hitting it so easily. That goes for the mouse buttons too.
The exit and pause button is at an odd place and will like get hit accidentally during gameplay. I guess moving it somewhere else.
Malenko:
you can wire the 4 way to the same cherries on the P1 8 way but both sticks will be active (ie if you're playing me in Mortal kombat and I start moving the 4 way stick around, I will be able to control your guy)
on my 7 button layout the buttons work like this:
123
456
7
Most people who have standard SF layouts have the buttons as the same numbers as above, but without button 7 being there
Since I use an IPAC2 for the encoder buttons 1 2 and 3 are buttons 1 2 and 3 for everything, I manually set up the neo geo games to use 7456 as ABCD and I set up NBA jam and NHL Open Ice to use 745 as turbo shoot and pass.
I dont have or use a 4 way stick, as much as I'd love to have one my panel just doesnt have that sorta room (same goes for a trackball), I just use the 8 way stick and do my best, I can play pac man, frogger and galaga pretty well considering its an 8 way. I have no problems playing any of the MKs with the 7 button layout (button 7 makes a great run button, but Im sure I already told ya that) and the 7456 make the perfect Neo Geo layout.
The best thing about this hobby is you control everything if you want you control panel laid out like this:
714
265
3
you can, all you have to do is configure MAME to your liking. I hope I answered your question, and if you have anymore fire away. BTW I love my IPAC2, you can hold start and push down to pause games, so that eliminated the need for a dedicated pause button, for me at least.
bluevolume:
--- Quote from: xmenxmen on September 05, 2007, 01:07:06 pm ---
The exit and pause button is at an odd place and will like get hit accidentally during gameplay. I guess moving it somewhere else.
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I just dragged those two off of the panel; they will actually be going on a piece of wood I'm mounting at the bottom of the monitor bezel.
bluevolume:
How about this one?
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