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4p control panel questions.
Sir Auros:
--- Quote from: ThePaul on August 11, 2004, 06:45:12 pm ---It is so much more rewarding to design and then build your own.
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Undoubtedly. However, I have absolutely zero experience with woodworking and not much with design. I'm looking more to find someone who could help make a control panel with my specifications. Basically, I'm looking for something wide enough for four people, has 6 buttons for the first two players, 4 for the other two and no trackball or dedicated 4-way joystick to clutter things up. If I can't find someone who's interested, I'd probably take the project to my father in law and work on it with him since he has all the necessary tools and woodworking/design experience.
Silverwind:
Here is my 4player CP.
http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=10;action=display;threadid=6037;start=msg42344#msg42344
not quite finished yet.. i'm thinking about maybe making it a little smaller.. it is pretty large..
the width is fine.. but the depth is a little large..
I'm not going to do anything until I get the rest of the cab though.. will mount it and see how it looks.. then make alterations..
I used 6 buttons for each player.. mostly for a uniform look.. and if you have a few really big fellas playing.. you can put them on the outside controls to play street fighter/mortal kombat/etc.
(edit: I am using an I-PAC4 USB and happ controls)
paigeoliver:
You CANNOT hack 4 identical gamepads. If you do that, you will find that they will switch positions randomly on each bootup.
Secondly. don't hack gravis gamepads EVER. They ghost, one of the few gamepads that have that problem.
Just buy an I-Pac 4, cheaper than buying 4 gamepads anyway.
Trimoor:
Here is a much cheaper 64 input keyboard encoder:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=13718&item=6112110192&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
If you don't want to bid on ebay, send an email to
WarriorWolfSpike@aol.com
and he will sell you one directly for $35.00 plus $5.50 shipping
Sir Auros:
Yeah, should've mentioned that I've thrown the gamepad idea out the window due to the cost.
That encoder looks interesting and the price is right, but...
A - Do you really get what you pay for?
B - Are the inputs labelled like the I-Pac's?