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The Legend of Kage
Had to build the Control Panel from scratch using the pic shown. I did borrow the grass pattern from the bezel done by Mr.Retrolust from Mr.Do's.

Layfile note:
the Mame artwork system reads inputs i/o in groups of 4
In the taito/lkage.cpp the Joystick imports are spread across the first and second groups in binary it would be 1111 1111 because its active low, active High would be all zero's.

PORT_START("P1")
PORT_BIT( 0x01, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_BUTTON1 )
PORT_BIT( 0x02, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_BUTTON2 )
PORT_BIT( 0x04, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_JOYSTICK_LEFT ) PORT_8WAY
PORT_BIT( 0x08, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_JOYSTICK_RIGHT ) PORT_8WAY
PORT_BIT( 0x10, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_JOYSTICK_DOWN ) PORT_8WAY
PORT_BIT( 0x20, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_JOYSTICK_UP ) PORT_8WAY
PORT_BIT( 0x40, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_UNKNOWN )
PORT_BIT( 0x80, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_UNKNOWN )

Normaly I have been using a script mostly just to move the inputs into a group of 4
to read the joystick inputs, but you don't have to using the input mask.

inputmask="0x3c"

if you convert the 4 bits in each to hexidecimal
you need the 3 and fourth bit of the first set 0011=3
the first and second bit in the second set 1100 = c
most of the time your using a mask of f=1111 all four bits.

hope that helps someone its a lot easier than writing the script.

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