/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4784248
He really did nail it right on the head. First post best post and all that. You quickly become aware of just how many control schemes there really are in arcade games when you think about making an all-in-one control panel for MAME. To play nearly all of them, you need at least a joystick, six buttons, a trackball, and an analog dial. The dial will work like dogshit for racing games, the trackball would be dogshit for simulating a flight sim yoke, and the joystick can and probably will be garbage for multiple games if it's not a 4/8/16 way. If you're a reasonable man, you take fpbp's advice and stick to games with a common control layout. If you're a pleb, you just use buttons/joystick and map games with analog controls to your digital control panel. If you're a perfectionist though, you will eventually turn into a mad scientist creating frankenstein's monster.

I just use an X-arcade (customized), a SNES pad clone, and a dual-shock, which is good for pretty much everything. Anything else is just an exercise in frustration.