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Perceptor:
Hey all, I've been lurking around here for while and this is my first post.
SirPoonga:
You could move the tball in dead center and closer to the player 1 buttons.  Put mouse buttons above it.  You aren't going to use the mouse buttons except in windows games and in windows.
Then use player 1 buttons for games that use tball.  they are mapped like that by default anyway.
tetsujin:
Are the far left and far right players really going to need seven buttons?
NoOne=NBA=:
If you move the trackball to the right, over the P-2 buttons, and move the three mouse buttons dead center, you'd have room for a spinner on the left side (above P-1 buttons).
That would make it more playable, and would let you balance out the art as well, with a "barbell" shaped center piece to it.
Buddabing:
Welcome to the board!

If you are planning on using your panel for just MAME, you don't need seven buttons for player 3 and 4.

I would:
1) make players 3 and 4 have 4 buttons in 2x2 rows.
2) use the space saved to squeeze the trackball in between players 1 and 2
3) Put a spinner where the trackball buttons currently are and put 3 or 4 buttons to the right of the spinner.
4) add a pause/admin button or two.

That way you get more follow through room for the trackball.

If you want to go full frankenpanel, you can add a flight stick just to the right of the spinner buttons, that way you'll have full Tron controls.

Keep on reading and looking at the example projects.




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