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dubstylee:
I am working on the layout of my controls for a new control panel I am working on.  Just looking for any feedback regarding placement/etc.  The colors on the buttons are the size of the button holes to be drilled, and the black ring around them is the size of the bezel.  The 3" circle is for a trackball, and the other 1 1/8" circles are the hole sizes for the 2 joysticks.  There are Asteroids buttons above the trackball, and the 4 top buttons will be for coin/start buttons.

Any additional config buttons will not be visible on the top of the panel, they will most likely be located either on the sides or back of the panel.

Also, the size of the layout is 24" x 14".  Thanks for any feedback!

EDIT: new design layout below in replies.
IAmDotorg:
Print it out life-size, stick your fingers on the buttons. Make sure they're a comfortable spacing. The blue and orange ones look like they'd be uncomfortably far apart. Also, just eyeballing it, you may need to move that middle one up -- trackballs for some reason tend to be very large under the control panel. The right joystick will also likely not fit with the trackball that close.

Why do you need dedicated asteroids? Most people just use the left/right on the joystick and three buttons, not the five button layout. Unless you're an Asteroids purist, you're using up a lot of space for that.

I printed out about eight or ten variants of mine using Visio and tested them out for spacing before I settled on my final layouts.
JDFan:
player 2 joystick seems to be in the way of trackball usage (remember the joystick handle is not like a button that you can easily go over the top of)
lamprey:
For the most part it looks fine. My only concerns are the Asteroids buttons above the trackball, it looks like the player-2 sick would be in the way. You might want to mock that up in cardboard to see if it bothers you.

Someone might have some other options, but I see a couple:
1. Shift the Asteroids buttons over (to the left)
2. Get rid of them and use a combination of player-1 and player-2 buttons to get all the buttons you need.

 :cheers:
Malenko:
the trackball will not fit where you have it.
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