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Le Chuck:
^ And now you have my riveted undivided attention. :cheers:

Excited to see how it goes with that bearing as I'm going to be experimenting with the same one later this summer. Looking good so far.

Malenko:
why not the standard "street fighter plus 1" button layout with XYZ along the top?

I'll be keeping a close eye on this thread for sure.

BadMouth:

--- Quote from: Malenko on April 28, 2012, 09:49:48 pm ---why not the standard "street fighter plus 1" button layout with XYZ along the top?

--- End quote ---

Just personal taste. My fingers instinctively go to the top row of buttons, so I prefer ABC up there.
My guests are the same way.

My theory is that people who have played a lot on modern consoles go for the bottom row because that's how things are arranged on modern controllers. People who haven't played a lot on modern consoles go for the top row. :P I have no idea if it's true, but that's my theory until someone is bothered to disprove it with a controlled study. (not just anecdotal evidence)

The main reason for the curved layout is that I wanted to do something different from what I've done before and also more modern.
Especially since this cab is focused on modern games (2000 and up) that came in candy cabs which had curved button layouts.

Malenko:
does me being 33 throw a kink in that equation? I used to map the punches to R(weak) X (medium) A (fierce) and the kicks to L (weak) Y (medium) B (roundhouse) in street fighter on SNES; so maybe Im just an oddity , lol

BadMouth:
Cut the sides out today. The original design forced the coin door to be mounted too low, so I modified it.
It doesn't look as balanced to me now, but I think it will look better once the CP is there.

I still don't understand what happened, but after everything else going smoothly, the router decided to climb toward the top of the panel instead of staying centered. I have no idea what happened. It didn't feel any different than it did going around the rest of the cab and the depth of the router didn't move, but somehow this happened (my camera decided to focus on the grass instead of the project):

It looks even worse after routing the correct path next to it.

Pretty horrible, but I had bondo glass on hand:

EDIT: Forgot to mention that after that, I was cutting down the center of a large piece of mdf on supported by plastic sawhorses and as soon as the cut was complete, everything fell in toward the center and made a big mess. I had two sawhorses on each side, but I guess they weren't close enough to center. When I went to make the next cut with the circular saw, I couldn't get the blade lined up, then realized that it was bent. It must have hit the floor before the guard closed. Good thing it was just a concrete basement floor. No choice but to stop working and go get a new blade. One of several points that I should have just stopped working at :timebomb:

Obligatory side panels against wall pic:

Got some of the non-angled panels cut too. Here's an idea of the width:

This thing is becoming more of a beast than I'd planned. Slim or not, 2 sheets of MDF is heavy.
It was originally going to be one player and just over 2ft wide. It's now 32" wide to (barely) accomodate the rotation of the 27" monitor.
I measured a 32" lcd tv and it would also fit, but I wouldn't want to be that close to a 32" screen.
I'll post templates once I get this thing together and makes sure everything fits.

There happened to be a disc of aluminum stock on fleabay the size I needed for the monitor mount, so that was ordered and should be received by weekend. It's 3/4", which is thicker than I wanted, but the price and diameter was right. I should make good progress this weekend.

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