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dkersten:
I agree with others, first the P2 joystick will be in the way of the trackball, give it more room if you can.  Second, Look here for the button layouts, while the uniform layout like you have might look good, it might be uncomfortable.  http://www.slagcoin.com/joystick/layout.html

Finally, if you are going to do extra buttons for anything, make sure you can use them comfortably for long periods of time.  Those asteroids buttons look like you will be resting your hands on the trackball and the P1 buttons to use, and reaching forward to use them.  Probably not the best place.  Also as stated, most people use the joystick for left and right and set your buttons 1-3 for fire, thrust, and hyperspace.  It eliminates the need for all those extras.

Oh, and any buttons in front of the trackball are going to get hit in games like golden tee, bowling, or shuffleshot, so make sure if you have buttons in the path of the trackball you can hit them without screwing up your game.  Twice now I have ended up with my "exit" button in the path of my hand when using the trackball and sure enough I have inadvertently exited the game in a heated match.. oops.
dubstylee:
I hadn't thought of using left/right joystick and three buttons for Asteroids.  That is much better than what I was trying to do.  That will also allow me to use less buttons overall.  So if I scrap the Asteroids buttons, I would be able to move the trackball up and hopefully out of the way of J2.  I kinda thought the buttons might be a little far apart as well.  If the edge of the button holes was as close as the bezels are to each other, then they might be good, but I will try to move them a little closer and see about printing off to test the feel of the placement.
lamprey:

--- Quote from: Malenko on August 19, 2014, 12:47:27 pm ---the trackball will not fit where you have it.

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Yeah Malenko is right. You might want to get templates for the controls, like the trackball and joysticks. That way you can tell how much space the really take up under the control panel so you make sure everything will fit.
lamprey:
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dkersten:
Careful on the trackball, if you get it too close to the monitor you will be bruising fingers and breaking nails when playing.. Keep it as far back as you can, and space your controls wider if possible.
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