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Control Panel Art 90% done
DirtyDachshunds:
y two cents?
Border: First off, applying the artwork perfectly, and more importantly, cutting the curves and sanding down to match your design perfectly can be difficult, make SURE you cut and measure the curve before you order your artwork.
I was planning on ordering a 48x21 rectangle, without the white curved ends. That way, it can still look good without being perfectly cut.
What currently bothers me about your design is the borders are already uneven, which (as was in my case) if there are any discrepancies between your artwork size and board size could end up looking bad.
There shouldn't be any discrepancies
The front border has NO room to give. Id probably increase the border to match the sides. (better to have more border in this part of the project than to have no border on the top and bottom and some border on the left and right.
I have gone back and forth about this. But I'm really not worried about the border not fitting the wood. Even on the top and bottoms, my cut would have to be off more than a couple inches to really mess it up with regards to the art.
On a total side note, I personally think you are going to hate how large this is in the end and wish you had made it a little smaller. I hear complaints about the mameroom 4p size all the time. I mean ... it's 4 feet wide ?? holy crap! As for the Dreamcast/Playstation emulation ... good luck with that ... :laugh2: (j/k ... but seriously ... you might want to built a test panel of scrap wood and see if ANY of the 4 player games with that style setup are even remotely fun... you might just find you built a 4ft panel for something you'll use 1-2 times in your life.)
You might be right. But the two extra buttons for P3 and P4 aren't causing the panel to be an extra 1' wide. I like the clean layout a 4' panel provides. I want a 4P panel, and I would rather it be large and spacious than tight and cramped.
But I appreciate the feedback. Good things to think about.
DirtyDachshunds:
--- Quote from: Ginsu Victim on August 10, 2010, 11:08:23 am ---Dreamcast takes a decent system, but Playstation emulates nicely on just about any PC.
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I've already got dreamcast emulation working great on the cab PC. The PC is semi beefy.
bpark42:
I don't want to derail the thread, but what are you using for your Dreamcast stuff? I have messed around with a couple different emulators with mixed results. I eventually would like to have DC support in my (yet-to-be-built) full size, 2 player horizontal cab.
javeryh:
I might also add the "halos" or whatever you are using as a border for your action buttons for the trackball and admin buttons so everything is uniform.
Also, in regards to the 4P set-up, a lot of people (myself included) do not like them. Well, it's not that I don't like it, I just think it is overkill and won't get used as much as you think it will. Also, there are only a handful of games (10 maybe?) that support 4P and they are mostly clones of each other. Of course, I'm not counting console emulation in which case there may be more games but for those you could always rig up some controller ports for the extra players. I don't know... it is expensive, large and might not get as much use as you think it will (I'm lucky to get a 2P game going in my house other than the few times a year we have a party). I don't think the benefits outweigh those things.
At the end of the day though you have to do what makes you happy - there are some KILLER 4P setups around here so it can definitely be done. Just be sure it is for you - I have a 4P setup on my cocktail table and I HATE it. I can't wait to take a saw to the long CP. :cheers:
DirtyDachshunds:
--- Quote from: bpark42 on August 10, 2010, 11:42:07 am ---I don't want to derail the thread, but what are you using for your Dreamcast stuff? I have messed around with a couple different emulators with mixed results. I eventually would like to have DC support in my (yet-to-be-built) full size, 2 player horizontal cab.
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I'm using NullDC. It works the best with my FE (Hyperspin).