Defender Arcade Button Layout?

[bargora]

I was about to send the "Top 20 shmups" thread spinning further OT, when my cooler head prevailed.

*I LIVE*

Yeah, Sinistar shows me for the running coward I am. Only the Ghost (Haunted House, Atari 2600) has instilled the same level of pure panic.

But now to the point of this post--it was mentioned that Defender, however, imposing, is masterable, which indeed must be the case if people can play it for hours straight (even days!). So now I am inspired to set up my Shadowblade stick with a reasonable facsimile of the arcade control setup so that if I *do* ever develop the skillz they will be somewhat transferable to an arcade cabinet. Just in case I run into one, you know. But the memory has dimmed. So where do I get a picture of a Defender arcade cab showing the controls in good detail, or else a diagram of the control setup?

[NE146]

http://www.users.qwest.net/~userid946/IOTSI-02-14.jpg
From left to right:
Joystick (Up/Down)
Reverse
Player 1 start
Hyperspace
Player 2 start
Smart Bomb
Thrust
Fire

Cool deal on mastering Defender! Like you said, in the 80's you had many many folks everywhere scoring literally in the millions X_x So it's definitely doable and (imho) rewarding task! :D

By the way, here are some great articles too you might find interesting.

"SURVIVING FREE SPACE". EXCELLENT hints on surviving free space:
http://www.stormaster.com/RGVAC-Manuals/Joystik-Magazines/Nov82/nov82-42.jpg
(6 pages total: just substitute 43, 44, 45, or 46 at the end of the url for each page)

Here's the rest of the scans for the article I took the above picture from. Pretty fun reading where the author talks about how you have to "spend a lot of money" to get good at Defender, but how it's worth it.
http://207.115.72.242/frank/bookscans/Invaders/IOTSI-02-14.jpg (6 pages total. Goes on through page 19)

[bargora]

Thanks, NE1--just what the doctor ordered! I had forgotten that you handle reverse with the left thumb. I guess I'll just have to make a concession and map it to the right hand, as none of my PSX sticks have a button conveniently located hard by the stick proper. Yeah, I definitely struggle to make it to wave 5. But just wait--I'll show those stinking rotton baiters!