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Vigo:

--- Quote from: Peja on February 22, 2012, 12:44:35 pm ---Time for a few different cardboard mockups I suppose.

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Smart man!  :cheers:

All I can say is that you just need to test it out for yourself, have family and friends try it with you on an angled and straight set up. I have seen the angle work, but as I said on a different thread, I think a few objectives had to be met. The screen had to be large enough and offset enough from the screen. The control panel needs to be very defining of the angle the controls are at, the one I tried was a half octagon shape with the controls lines up with that angle. I think most people here will recommend straight joysticks because it simply works, every time. Shoulders crashing together is a much smaller problem than wonky controls.

I once made an angle mockup for my old 4 player cabinet....it was a huge failure, though I am glad I tested it out. I learned a lot about my layout needs in general from it.

There is simply no downside to over-testing a control panel layout.
Howard_Casto:
Agreed! One of the reasons I'm so vocal about cp designs is because I've made quite a few mistakes over the years.  I think it was halfway though my second cp (for my first official cabinet) that I started going the whole cardboard route and boy does it save in lumber costs!  ;)
paigeoliver:
Really, Howard knows what he is talking about! You don't hang around the community for years and years and have as much involvement as he has without learning a thing or two.

People aren't ragging on angled sticks because they are THE MAN, trying to keep you down, trying to keep you from using the BETTER method. They are ragging on angled sticks to keep you from making a possibly very costly mistake.


--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on February 22, 2012, 05:41:15 pm ---Agreed! One of the reasons I'm so vocal about cp designs is because I've made quite a few mistakes over the years.  I think it was halfway though my second cp (for my first official cabinet) that I started going the whole cardboard route and boy does it save in lumber costs!  ;)

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loppydog:
This was an interesting read for me.  I built my CAB a few years back and it is only a 2 person:

Not knowing any better, I angled my sticks.  I am pretty happy with the way the buttons feel (kinda angled), but the sticks have always bugged me.  Honestly, I thought that angled stick were the norm.  Now I want to straighten them, but It is going to be kind of a lot of work (routing and re-wiring).  Long story short, I agree, sticks should point north.
paigeoliver:
That one looks fixable without spending any money, however you would have to drill your new joystick holes through the panel (I am assuming your original ones are under the overlay or something, because I don't see them).
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