Mame – buttons – Minimum buttons needed

[bthompz]

Hey everyone,

I’m trying to set up a mame cabinet. I will be having a joystick and 4 button setup. It’s a one player setup. My question is what is the minimum number of buttons I will need to add that are extra?

So required buttons:
– Up,Down,Left,Right
– Player buttons 1,2,3,4 (Thats just my setup)

– Add Coin
– Exit game
– Select Game
– Bring up emulation station menu

do I have to have all these or can I say map the select game to player 1 button 1?

What is everyone doing for these?

Thanks in advance,
Brad

[Anonymous]

Although I don’t have a cabinet I would think the list would be:

directional buttons
Minimum of three action buttons (6 if playing fighting games)
Start
Insert coin
Exit

I think exiting would bring up the emulationstation menu. You definitely need a start and coin button. Select game isn’t needed as its emulationstation you can just map it to one of the action buttons.

On my xbox controller I have all those mapped anyway.

[bthompz]

Thanks for the reply I will go play around with the buttons

[dpicc68]

[IMG]http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15/03/09/4571d10bcee050c76c1c7f4dbbeea7c2.jpg[/IMG]

I have 6 for gaming.
1x coin (each player)
1x on side.
1x player start
1x at top.

So at minimum add 4 additional buttons.
You will need them for hot keys, exiting, shader swapping etc….

My 2 player setup has 3 additional buttons each + 1 at top to exit Mame.

Dpicc….

[Author]

Posts