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versapak:


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Your CP looks really good.  What are the dimensions on this? 
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Thanks



It is 49" X 18",

5 1/2" tall in the back, &

4 1/2" tall in the front.






--- Quote ---Design #1 looks good, but I still think that the joysticks "up" position should point toward the screen.  Perhaps it is a personal preference thing, but when my eye follows something on the screen and I want to go a particular direction, my hand wants to move in that same direction.

So if I am the far left player and at a 90 degree angle to the front of the CP, then pushing the joy forward, directionally, would be towards the right side of the screen. But if I understand you correctly, you want that to be "up".  I would have to do a 90 degree conversion in my head to get the directions right. I think that would be awkward. I'm sure I would get used to it, but it would be strange.

Think of it this way, if you leaned the screen back little by little until eventually it were completely horizontal, how would you place the joys?
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I did plenty of testing when designing my control panel, and the only way it was ever comfortable is when up was relative to the person, and not to the screen.

When I see on the screen that I need to jump up, then it translates in my head automatically that up is forward on the stick. When it was a diagonal move for up, it felt EXTREMELY unnatural.




Gunstar Hero:

Awesome CP versapak!!

I would have swapped out the "Real Arcade" buttons for Happs myself... but that's a great idea.

Does the universal work with a USB adaptor for PC play as well?


versapak:


--- Quote ---Awesome CP versapak!!

I would have swapped out the "Real Arcade" buttons for Happs myself... but that's a great idea.

Does the universal work with a USB adapter for PC play as well?
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Thanks.

I do intend to do the button and stick swap eventually, but it came down to a money issue for the time being. Also, the cab is very much for my kids as well, and my 5 year old son needs the color coded buttons to match up with what the Xbox (currently one of the brains of my cab, and the primary one at that) game is showing. When I do replace them, I will prolly give each player a unique color scheme.

As for the universals working with a USB adapter...

They don't have a breakaway built into them, so they don't work with most of the Xbox USB adapters. I managed to find an extension cable at CompUSA though, that had the ability to have the actual big fat Xbox plug fit into it, as well as the breakaway. I converted it into a standard USB adapter, and it works extremely well.

It installs into windows XP with built in drivers, so it was a very easy install.

There are 2 different versions of the controller though. The older one (has black mode, back & start buttons) installs as љ and

Gunstar Hero:

I am intruiged by your ideas. How do I subscribe to your newsletter?  ;)

subzero23:

I think some people are a bit confused
do not worry about the notched angles on the CPs that doesnt matter

one the first panel, people would play at 90degree angles, on the other they wouldnt

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