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center/balance CP, or make it logically ?
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DaveMMR:
I just measured my panel, here's what I noticed:   It's 25 inches wide (okay, I already knew that), the leftmost joystick center is 3.5 inches from the left wall, while the rightmost button bezel is only 1.5 inches from the right wall.   Makes sense: you need more clearance room for the joystick than the buttons.   And it doesn't look wrong or off in any way.  So I think it'll look okay.  But do a mockup, of course.   You'll get your answer that way for certain.
RandyT:

--- Quote from: DaveMMR on April 20, 2011, 10:02:35 pm ---Makes sense: you need more clearance room for the joystick than the buttons.   And it doesn't look wrong or off in any way. 

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+1

Think about the space one player's entire control group occupies.  Leave the same amount of space to the left of the stick as you have between the stick and the buttons, and add an inch of space to the right of the buttons.  Consider this "box" to be the thing you are positioning.  If you leave an inch clearance to the right of the "box" on the right side, then leave that same amount of distance to the left of the "box" for Player 1.  Obviously, you can fudge this a little bit to make things fit the way you want, but don't try to go all symmetrical with the controls.  It won't look or play right.

jmohr1:

--- Quote from: DaveMMR ---I just measured my panel, here's what I noticed:   It's 25 inches wide (okay, I already knew that), the leftmost joystick center is 3.5 inches from the left wall, while the rightmost button bezel is only 1.5 inches from the right wall.

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My mockup is similar except 30" across (due to a dedicated 4 way in between p1 and p2) and featuring  3" and 1" spaces and I believe a full 5" in the center for the 4-way. Basically sounds like a pretty similar setup to yours already.
--- Quote from: RandyT ---...don't try to go all symmetrical with the controls.  It won't look or play right.

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This is my thinking too, but when looking at examples online, I see more symmetrical panels than not by a huge margin. Of course on most layouts it comes out to a just a couple inches or less either way.
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