editing control panel viewer for hybrid layout?

[shateredsoul]

I'm trying to see if gameex can meet my needs and it seem like it is very likely the case. I was wondering about one thing though, is there a way to change the control panel layout preview?

currently it's setup this way

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I will have a hybrid layout that looks like this (but curved as in the Japanese style)

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the bottom buttons will be ABCD for snk games, for all other games I will use buttons leave them as top row 123 bottom row 456. Can I change the preview of the control panel to reflect this? So that when snk games come out the bottom buttons are shown as ABCD.

Also, is it hard to have this panel display setup to be displayed on a second screen as you play?

[Tempest]

You will want to use CPWizard by HeadKaze. You can create a custom panel that matches yours exactly, and display the correct labels (run, Jump, Fire, etc.) for each button for each game. You can also have controls that are not used by a specific game alpha faded out. It makes it really simple to figure out the controls for each Mame Game (Can be used for emulators as well). There is a help file, (Click on help, then help again), and if you need more help than that, post and we'll try to help if we can.