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| jordanshadow:
Goal is to create a control panel with a neo geo layout for 2 people that is spacious and minimalist. After trying a 4 way joystick my wife would like me to try and include it on the panel. Two rough panels below. Pardon the simple Photoshop. Panel 2 revisions: oriented the joysticks further to the right for symmetry added 4 way joystick and two buttons increased radius of the bottom curve Info: top 4 buttons are player 1, admin, exit, player 2 CP is 29" wide, 14" deep and center, 12" deep at edges. Will have 3 j-sticks, sanwa/seimitsu buttons. Comments or suggestions? Is the 4 way stick to visually unappealing. |
| jdbailey1206:
Depending on your Player 1 joystick I don't think you will need to have the 4 way stuck in the top middle. It will become too awkward to reach up to it to control any games. Most games will recognize any joystick to be used as a 4 way even the U360 which is a 49 way joystick. There are multiple ways to tell the game to recognize it as a 4 way be it hardware or software alleviating the need for another random 4 way joystick. I also feel that if you leave the 4,2 setup on the top of control panel your right arm will continuously hit the player 2 joystick when you are using the two top buttons. Also if you remove the 4 way joystick move your admin buttons together in the middle. On my weecade I put the player 1 and player 2 buttons above the first button on my button layouts respectively. |
| Louis Tully:
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| jordanshadow:
Ya I too kinda think the 4 way joystick looks out of place aesthetically. Its actually placed just right that you don't bang the other joystick though. This panel will be going on my new arcade I am building with a 27" monitor, 26.5" wide so the panel size should line up nicely. I could drop the width just a little to have a 1/4" overhand instead of 1/2". If i dropped the 4 way stick I could probably shave another inch off the depth and move the buttons just a little higher. As you may notice in the first panel I originally had the admin buttons all in a line together. Currently i have it planned so that you have to hit admin+escape to exit a game. Admin will also allow me to program fast forward, pause, and volume control. I think i will keep it. |
| DeLuSioNal29:
Have you considered eliminating the extra 4-way joystick altogether and getting and 8-way/4-way Servo Stick from Ultimarc? http://ultimarc.com/servostik.html Also, I'd suggest at least getting 2 rows of 4 buttons. You can always just use one row for Neo Geo, but other games that require 6 can use more. Something like this: or this: or this: DeLuSioNaL29 |
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