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MacGyver:

You can shoehorn a lot of stuff into that size, here is my daughters CPO, it's 29x13 and has 2x spinners, 1x trackball, 6x buttons per side, 2x led JLF joysticks (the picture has MagStiks), and 2x player select buttons.  there are leds in everything, and Angle eyes under the spinners.  I could even put a flightstick in the middle if I moved some stuff around, but that would be really crowded.  It doesn't feel crowded at all right now, even with all those controls in it.


Just use the technical drawings for the devices you plan on using (scale them to the proper sizes), for instance, that trackball is huge on two corners, but small on the others, using the technical drawings will help avoid making mistakes by misjudging how big things are on the bottom (eg. joysticks take up 4 times the space below the panel).

mamenewb100:

That Kimpossible CP is nice. Those spinners come in suprisingly handy for racing and pong-type games due to the smooth analog input. Thought it would be a waste to have one, until I was able to try it out.

rCadeGaming:

The issues of straight vs curved layouts and American vs Japanese parts have been argued to death here:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=118842.0

As to what you should put on it, I think one stick and seven buttons per player, trackball, and start/admin buttons is plenty for 95% of the games you'll want to play.  That's what I like.

Still working on my cabinet, but here's a portable stick I made.  The cabinet's cp will this times two, plus trackball:



Still enough space for a spinner if that's your preference, and you could cut out some buttons if you're not into 6-button fighters.

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