Hello all!
I am trying to plan my control panel and get some parts sourced.
So far, I have the following:
Oscar Vortex Spinner
3" Trackball with mouse buttons from
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=13718&item=6113054382and I ordered:
36 black Happ's concave buttons with microswitches
4 "player" buttons
1 top fire 8-way joystick
4 ultimate 8-way joysticks
I will also be getting:
1 Wico Leaf ball top 4-way joystick
1 ultimarc i-pac 56 input encoder
What I'm wondering is what else do I need the buttons for other than the player buttons?
For Players 1 and 2, I have 7 buttons in a fighter/neogeo layout
For Players 3 and 4, I will have 4 buttons each
Then I'll have 2 buttons on each side for pinball and such.
I'll have the player coin and start buttons.
And last but certainly not least... the PAUSE, ESC, TAB, ENTER buttons.
So that basically totals 38 buttons. If I could put 2 more buttons on the CP, what would they be? Could I use them for the 4-way Wico joystick? I'm not even sure how that would wire up to the CP or even if I'd have enough inputs!
Any suggestions on this? This part is quite confusing to me!