Control Panel Submittal - Advice, Suggestions, Comments

[Toadie]

Greetings all,

I've been lurking for a while as I stumble through this and I think I'm ready.  I'm going to build an Ultimate Arcade II.  The theme is going to be Aliens / Space and the colors are Green with Metallic Black (inspiration Gamester on the black).

I'm still a little foggy on console design in terms of what I need etc so I'm opening it up to the people with experience.

First the Console



The background is similar to the Neon Mame and I've seen a lot of people copy it so I was thinking of something different.  Please look at just the concept for the graphics, I still need to do a lot of work in terms of making them presentable.

As for the layout I'll start from the bottom...

P1 and P2
8 way joystick - not sure what I should get, I'm leaning towards the Ultra 360?  Thoughts?
7 button config - lit green but I'm not sure if I want electric ice or the Nova Gem.  Can anyone give me feedback on brightness?  I heard that the Nova Gems could be distracting.

Trackball will be the Electric Ice
Just above to the left and right I'm going to have track ball / mouse buttons. Yes I know why four?  I'm a symmetrical nut but I'll take other ideas

Top Row Left to Right

Player 1 Coin
Player 1 Select

Game Pause
Game Exit

Spinner - thinking of the Turbo Twist
4 way Joystick - Help here please I have no clue
Two associated buttons

Game Reset
Game Shutdown

Player 2 Coin
Player 2 Select

and there you have it, my first attempt at a console.

Rip it apart