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Bobgilb1:

No need to fight, gents! Although I do still gain knowledge and insight from the back and forth :)

I asked for thoughts and I am getting them, perfect......keep them coming!

Buying some MDO this weekend and will have more updates then.

I received my Mag Stik Plus joysticks and am researching/reading/trying to decide what I am going to do.

Thanks again!

ChanceKJ:

We were fighting? 


...did, did I win?  ???

yotsuya:


--- Quote from: ChanceKJ on December 13, 2013, 12:21:20 pm ---We were fighting? 


...did, did I win?  ???

--- End quote ---

When Xiaou gets involved in the argument, no one wins.

Conversely,



zanna5910:

I believe in "to each their own" when it comes to this, so do what you want, but please hear my experience on the console topic:

1. Sure, you can use a 6button layout and 8way to play SNES, but playing without triggers, games will leave your hands cramped and locked in a way that resembles cerebral palsy.  You'll never feel it plays good since the buttons aren't triggers.  Imagine holding the upper right button while tapping the 3rd button and the upper left button at the same time.  Enjoy that.

2. Sure, you can use 9 buttons, an 8 way joystick and a digital joystick and play Goldeneye 64 on an arcade or some other terrible combination of buttons to resemble a modern controller.  It will feel about as awesome as playing Metroid with a power glove.

My advice, build your CP for the arcade, like the arcade.  It will play the best and look the best.  It will be the easiest to use and the most intuitive.  Install USB adapters and use a gamepad for anything else (with the small exception of NES games, which do play nicely with said arcade layout).

That being said, many people have thought really far outside the box and built things that truly are awesome and some end up being "beauty is in the eye of the beholder".  Don't think that if you want to do something different it is a failure, it's only a failure when you realize it didn't work, but hey, at least you tried. 

In doing research when building my CP, I remember seeing someone built an arcade control panel that could only be described as looking like an outdoor garden hose reel setup with hexagonal control panels circularly mounted to it.  I myself would never do that, but they liked it so who am I to judge. 



yotsuya:


--- Quote from: zanna5910 on December 13, 2013, 01:00:06 pm ---In doing research when building my CP, I remember seeing someone built an arcade control panel that could only be described as looking like an outdoor garden house reel setup with hexagonal control panels circularly mounted to it.  I myself would never do that, but they liked it so who am I to judge.

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If you only knew.....  :laugh2:

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