Hello,

I was wondering if anybody had any recommendations for good keys to use for the different buttons - particularly for the Start and Select buttons.

Are there any conventions or things people might expect?

Thanks for the responses. 

I also see that some GB emulators use Enter for Start and Backspace for Select - which is another idea.

(To be clear,  I'm not saying I would make a game that runs on an emulator, just that those controls work for a certain community of GB gamers.)

I was thinking of this earlier today. I came up with WASD and numeric keypad  - + for A B, / for select, * for start.

Then there is the possibility holding the keyboard and playing only with thumbs :-D

I love cursor keys for DOS games, but Gameboy has the d-pad to the left...
So when using cursor keys, the other buttons must be placed to the right. There is only the numeric keypad as option, or am I seeing it wrong?

Granted, not suitable for laptops...

I normally include 2 common keybinds + gamepad support:

Arrows + Z + X
WASD + J + K

(The way I implement WASD works fine for non-query keyboards too)