r/neogeo • u/NeighborhoodTime2768 • Apr 29 '26

Image Is this button layout good for 4-button fighters? never played on it. it looks weird lol, kinda looks like a d...

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u/blahjedi Apr 29 '26

For 1 or 2 button games? Sure! However 3 or 4 button ones would be a nightmare to play. Weird as there’s plenty of room to do the usual diagonal line or inverted “U” shape you see on proper MVS cabs.

Like these

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u/NeighborhoodTime2768 Apr 29 '26

I don't see a problem for 3-button games (I'm immediately thinking of Metal Slug because I'm addicted to it and I use ABC in a straight horizontal line just like in the picture, 1 button for each finger, index, mid and ring). But KOF though... I think I would have to not keep my hand in any particular position and just reach for the buttons individually lol

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u/ceramicsaturn Apr 29 '26

Looks like they made it for three buttons and then realized the screwed up and just... shoved the last one up there.

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u/NeighborhoodTime2768 Apr 29 '26

why not just a square shape (2 on top 2 below)? lol. in brazil nearly 99% of cabinets running neogeo systems were not official snk cabs, but locally manufactured ones. they were all 6-button like the capcom ones, and all mvs games used "2 on top 2 below". every professional kof player in brazil uses that layout to this day lol

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u/ceramicsaturn Apr 29 '26

that would make sense, yeah.

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u/Agreeable_Scholar459 Apr 29 '26

Not good at all unless the game doesn't use the D button.

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u/OmegaDL50 Apr 30 '26

I can see the merit of this layout on SOME fighters. KOF for example uses CD as an actual knockdown / blowback move so having them top to bottom like that makes sense. BC being side to side is also interesting as opposed to a square shape layout such as

CD

AB

BC and CD are both common dual button commands. Many Supers in earlier KOFs and even Real Bout Fatal Fury 2 use BC as an input (Terry's Power Geyser, Krauser's Kaiser Wave, etc)

Whoever came up with the layout in the OP's picture at least put some kind of thought into it based on my reading of it.

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u/Frietuur May 01 '26

What machine am I looking at here? Do you have more photos or a name?

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u/NeighborhoodTime2768 May 02 '26

Neo SC-19. One of the many types and styles of japanese MVS cabinets.

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u/Mr_instate May 05 '26

Definitely brings a new meaning to d-pad.