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Flinkly:

i'd either go with a gamepad from something, or make a small control panel and be ready to take the joy off everytime you packed and pack it inside the box to cut down on space.

i'd probably go with an xbox controller.  you get the dual joystick thing plus six buttons in a row plus start and back....plenty of buttons for a single player to play alot of games.  you could even get one with the macro button if you needed more buttons.  anyways, thats my two cents...


tetsujin:

If you're going to be travelling with it, I don't think real arcade controls are going to be practical at all.

The next closest thing would be a cheap "arcade-style" joystick.  These are a lot smaller than actual arcade controls (in terms of vertical depth under the panel, especially).  Add (or build-in) a USB converter (if it's a console stick) and there you go.

But by far the easiest (IMO) would be a regular USB gamepad.  They're cheap and ubiquitous, and they'll be good enough for most games.  (Though playing games like Smash TV on dual-analog sticks is pretty annoying, actually...)  For portability something like a USB-converted NES or SNES controller (or USB-native equivalent) would be great.  Much easier to stick in a laptop bag than a PS2-style gamepad.

spystyle:

http://www.inanna.com/~calhoun/ibox/index.html

RetroJames:


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Is that your site and projects spystyle?

spiffyshoes:

How about useing a Japanese Style Sanwa Joystick from Himuragames.com?

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