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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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