Hello all This is my first post here I am actually (well for 2 months already) brainstorming my future arcade cabinet. Since I want it to be a jukebox and radio as well, I decided to go with GameEx. Here's the SketchUp of the project: The shape is largely inspired from Retro Space. Since the cabinet will be placed in the living room, I needed something small and modern to accommodate with the wife's repulsive nature against that kind of things I felt in love with RetroSpace design and decided to slightly reproduce it's shape. Normally the cabinet should have a rotating screen (not sure yet how I will accomplish that but I really want it). The big innovation will be the marquee. I will make a LED panel that will display various info dinamycally following user choices, and pulse with the music when its in Jukebox/Radio mode. I say it's an innovation because I have never seen this after having spent years lurking on arcade controls and other huge Mame boards. So, back to business. I have a concern regarding the 1 & 2 player buttons layout on the control panel. This is my very first cabinet and I am still unsure of how I can configure GameEx, Mame and console emulators to fit my needs. I have read hundred of pages regarding this and I still can't find an answer to my questions. Basically, I WANT both Capcom fighting and NeoGeo layout for each player. Capcom: 123 456 Neogeo: 234 1 So the simple way to achieve this IMHO would be having a layout like this: 1234 5678 for capcom games, use : 123 or 234 567 678 for Neogeo, use : *234 5*** And other classic arcade games using 1, 2, 3 or 4 buttons, go with: 1234 Is this a good idea? The main concern being, won't it be a nightmare to configure ? I really don't want to have to adapt my control config file MANUALLY for each game... For console that's easy as the controllers stays the same, but with arcade that's a different story. So basically, is there something in MAME or GameEx that makes possible to "dynamically" adapt the controls cfg for each game based on the editor, the Game DB or whatever else ? Any suggestions or hints are welcome Cheers
