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danh32:
Hello everyone.  I'm new to the board, and have finally taken the leap and started building my first arcade cabinet.  I have gotten the cabinet structure built/sanded/painted, the CP completely drilled and assembled (not yet wired), and just have a simple question: what order do most people wire their player's controls?  I am using an Ipac2, and have six buttons per player layed out in the standard 2 rows of 3 buttons pattern.

It would seem logical to wire my CP as such:

1 2 3
4 5 6

Is this the common configuration?  Is there a common configuration?  My friend noted that it would be nice when playing games with less than 6 buttons to have the buttons be the lower ones, so that they are easy to hit.  So the top and bottom rows of buttons would be switched ( and this configuration more closely resembles MAME's default keyboard controls of Left-Ctrl, Left-Alt, Spacebar being under Left-Shift, Z, and X).  I feel like I might just be overthinking it, as I can always reprogram the Ipac after the cab is built if I don't like it, but I'd rather just get it right the first time.  Thanks in advance.

                   --Daniel

ivwshane:
Your first post and you are already half way done and no thread or pics about it:(



I think it's a matter of preference. For me mine will be like this:

  567
  234
1

Franco B:
Welcome to the forum Daniel!

As Shane said, it is generally a matter of preference.

You will find many threads on this and similar subjects if you search for '123 456'

And yes, lets see those pics!  :)

cadmium:

--- Quote from: ivwshane on August 13, 2008, 01:50:04 am ---Your first post and you are already half way done and no thread or pics about it:(



I think it's a matter of preference. For me mine will be like this:

  567
  234
1

--- End quote ---

I did mine just recently like this (I thought I might be the only one!). It seems most commercial sticks start in the uppers left, but I wanted to be able to rest my hand when playing 1-4 button games. So that's what made sense to me.

danh32:
Thanks for all the help.  I think I'll do

456
123

As for pics, my cab isn't near as fancy as anyone else's here, but I'll start a thread soon on the other board.

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