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boogieman:
I see most people have 3 admin buttons.  What are they?  I can see using esc. and tab but don't know the other one.

Any ideas, and what is that third button/most useful admin combination, I could go 4 button but would rather keep 3.  I can also shift buttons so what could I get away with using 2 buttons?

For the word game, I am messing with an image with joust font and have the following words to cut up the letters and rearrange...  "single" "dual" "play"  I want to label the admin buttons but only use those letters above since I don't want to try to add letters to the font and such.  I came up with "end play" for the esc. button.

EDIT: If pause is a button, it has the right letters, also if enter is, it could be "yes".  Not real sure on the tab button?

Here is my "coin 1 and 2" overlay, and the start of the "admin" overlay.  I will probably remove the Joust from the admin overlay.

protokatie:

--- Quote ---I see most people have 3 admin buttons.  What are they?  I can see using esc. and tab but don't know the other one.
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Mine are Esc, Shift-mode for the minipac, and pause. I dont need tab as I will only use it sparingly, and can use the shift button to perform tab. For me this setup made the most sense.

As per what admin buttons you NEED: Only one, and that is esc (So you can escape back to the front end). The reason why I went with an independent shift-mode button was that I didnt want people to accidentally perform an esc or similar when pressing the player one start button and another at the same time. And the pause is because I like to drink and may want to pause the game so I can pee...

boogieman:
That sounds reasonable.  I like the tab because it lets me see what buttons are used on the games.  I can see pause being handy.  I think I will use pause.  I can shift pause to be tab.  That way the tab will be hidden from the end user (well, its just mainly me and my wife so it won't really be hidden).  So I guess I have esc. (end game) pause (pause) and tab (shifted not labeled on overlay).   

Is there anything else worth having that is shifted?

leapinlew:
I don't use admin buttons anymore. I only use shifted buttons.

Press 1p + 2p = esc. (To exit a game)
Press 1p + down arrow = P to pause in game, and exits the front end and shuts down the computer

Any more buttons, and my niece and nephews hit them and inevitably break stuff.

boogieman:
p1 + p2 sounds dangerous, I plan on playing a lot of 2 player stuff so it could get hit on accident. 

I think I will shift the pause to be the tab button and use escape.  Here is an updated pic.  Hopefully the humor is subtle lol.

EDIT: Blank one is for coin 1 and 2

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