Panel layout for 8 buttons a player....

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Posted by arcadepcnut on 13, 2001 at 3:02 PM:

Hello all,
I have alot of questions.

I have been searching for a layout that has 2 players each with a joystick and 8 buttons. I have yet to find one. I use my mame cabinet for playing emulators other than mame and as we all know that some of the consoles have a large number of buttons. Some arcade games like Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat have more than 4 buttons also.

My cabinet is a converted neogeo cabinet and has the red blue green yellow buttons all in a row about a 1/4 apart from each other. There is room right below the top row of buttons for a second row using the same color scheme. But is that the best way to lay them out so that all buttons can be used easily? Should I stagger the second row to the left or right a bit so that the buttons do not line up exactly? The second row of buttons on both player 1 and player 2 are brand new buttons where the first row is old. Should I put all of player ones buttons new and all of player 2's old or top row old and bottom row new on each of player 1 and player 2? Would the bottom row be the default row to use in games that use only 2 buttons?! or is the top row the standard?

Sorry for alot of questions....

Thank you in advance.

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Here is mine...not great for fighters...but swell for classics Mr Arcade 2/14/2001 (0)
my 8-button layout Dave K 2/14/2001 (3)
- Re: my 8-button layout (didn't display correctly) Dave K 2/14/2001 (2)
  - still looks like crap but you get the idea Dave K 2/14/2001 (1)
    - Thanks! NT arcadepcnut 2/15/2001 (0)
I use the standard neo-geo layout and just double it one on top of the other. Jeremy Cline 2/14/2001 (0)
Re: Panel layout for 8 buttons a player.... robert mcelwee 2/13/2001 (0)

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: Hello all, : I have alot of questions. : I have been searching for a layout that has 2 players each with a joystick and 8 buttons. I have yet to find one. I use my mame cabinet for playing emulators other than mame and as we all know that some of the consoles have a large number of buttons. Some arcade games like Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat have more than 4 buttons also. : My cabinet is a converted neogeo cabinet and has the red blue green yellow buttons all in a row about a 1/4 apart from each other. There is room right below the top row of buttons for a second row using the same color scheme. But is that the best way to lay them out so that all buttons can be used easily? Should I stagger the second row to the left or right a bit so that the buttons do not line up exactly? The second row of buttons on both player 1 and player 2 are brand new buttons where the first row is old. Should I put all of player ones buttons new and all of player 2's old or top row old and bottom row new on each of player 1 and player 2? Would the bottom row be the default row to use in games that use only 2 buttons?! or is the top row the standard? : Sorry for alot of questions.... : Thank you in advance.

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