Posted by NThero on 1, 2001 at 11:51 PM:
In Reply to: Re: An Ideal frontend for MAME - Additional Question posted by Chris on 31, 2001 at 3:27 PM:
: What would be the minimum number of controls (joysticks, buttons, etc.) that you would expect to have on a control panal to use for navigation?
I think 1 joystick and 4 buttons or 2 joys and 2 buttons per joy.
Joy 1 could be for going through the gamelist. button 1 would be enter/start. button 2 could be for either popping up the text/tip box, or jumping to a game-list selection area/box (choose between custom lists of games). and the other buttons could pop up the admin stuff or whatever. Actually, I guess just two buttons and one joystick could do it if done right. press both buttons to load up the admin/config stuff. not really all that much that needs doing in a front-end gui...
Still, I think customizable controls should be included. And erkan is right; multiple fullscreen resolutions and fonts would be great. One thing I don't like about windows front-ends is that they're all (or most) 640x480 or higher and the text is so damn tiny. I don't want to change my windows text settings around just for playing games (not everyone can afford a dedicated pc for this stuff).