I encountered a TAP cab today with what I perceived as an unusual button layout: from left-to-right either BAC or BCA. ACB I could understand, but really? ...BAC??? Pretty sure this cab is not getting much love so I don't think this is a conscious decision by management to fulfill the needs of some underworld of mirror-image grandmasters. It got me wondering though if there are actually players out there used to this type of layout. Does anyone out there use BAC?
I use BAC Though it's mainly because a part of SRS never truly left me when I switched to ARS. That finger was always used to rotate right.
BAC I could understand for TGM3 given the weird rotation system for WORLD, but for TAP just seems bizarre. Pretty sure all Tetris convention (and intuition) suggests left button be rotate ACW and right button be rotate CW. Insert Coin expo a few years back had a TGM1 with an 8-way octagonal gate, and three buttons in this layout: B A C Basically had to play with my right hand rotated 90° the whole time.
Hm, well I notice the listing you posted seems to focus on cabs in the west. This one is in Japan, and it's not even in Tokyo so it wouldn't qualify for the list that nicofromtokyo put up in a separate thread. For anyone still curious it's in Naha, Okinawa in an arcade called Game in Naha II. You can see it briefly in this video at the 10 second mark. No, I have nothing to do with the video; and yes, that TAP with BAC layout is indeed on a 1P panel Atomiswave which should backup my suspicions that this PCB has no mother.
