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| Wade:
In my opinion, if you make a 4 player panel that is to scale with the drawings you are showing, then it will be too cramped to play 4-player no matter how you configure the sticks and buttons. Unless of course, you and your friends are 75 lbs each. Rawker's looks like it might be doable though. Wade |
| Lilwolf:
btw... this is one of the reasons I wrote my frontend JFront. I have 1234 when playing 4 player games I have 0123 when playing 1-3 player games. All with configuring mames default settings 2 times... and its all taken care of.. |
| krick:
The problem I have with the 3124 layout is that when playing 2 player Smash TV, the joysticks aren't spaced tha same for player 1 as they are for player 2... This is the 3124 layout: I could move player 3 farther to the left to equalize the distance but that would create a bit of empty space between 3 and 1. My design is limited by several factors... - I want the stick spacing to be the same when playing Smash TV. Also, I'd prefer the sticks to be somewhat close together. - I want all the joysticks to be in a single line. No angled layouts. - My control panel is 37", and that's just the width of the top. When you consider the inside dimensions of the control panel box itself, I have a few inches less to work with. - I may want to squeeze in 1 or two trackballs in the future. So at the moment, I think one of the original 2 layouts looks most promising for my needs. |
| Witchboard:
Those look familiar. ;D If you are dead set on having the stick spacing the same for smash T.V. and want them in a straight line, then you don't have much of a choice. You may want to consider having a 3142 layout though. That way, your first player will be more centered for single player games and the rest meets your demands. I really don't see any room for a couple of trackballs on top of 4 joys within the confines of your width. Unless you plan on making your CP deep enough to accommmodate your trackballs you may want to look at swappable CP or something. |
| krick:
--- Quote from: Witchboard on March 04, 2004, 08:41:21 am ---Those look familiar. ;D --- End quote --- Are they yours? I can't remember where I found the original image that I'm hacking up. --- Quote from: Witchboard on March 04, 2004, 08:41:21 am ---If you are dead set on having the stick spacing the same for smash T.V. and want them in a straight line, then you don't have much of a choice. You may want to consider having a 3142 layout though. That way, your first player will be more centered for single player games and the rest meets your demands. --- End quote --- That's what I'm thinking. --- Quote from: Witchboard on March 04, 2004, 08:41:21 am ---I really don't see any room for a couple of trackballs on top of 4 joys within the confines of your width. Unless you plan on making your CP deep enough to accommmodate your trackballs you may want to look at swappable CP or something. --- End quote --- My control panel is about 15 inches deep. I'm thinking that maybe I can set the joystick line back a little and put 2 trackballs in front. If I used the 3142 layout instead, I could put the trackballs below the "7 button" areas and they would be relatively centered on the screen. Here's a pic of my control panel as it is currently... |
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