Hey Anoon,
Sounds great! I assume your CP is metal? Are they drilling/cutting it at work, or are you using an outside shop?
With my time off, I had a chance to finally wire my cabinet "for real" and build the interchangable panel system. The cab is now officially wired JAMMA-compatible, has a real AC-feed and distribution panel, good ground, working coin door (with lights) and clean Molex connectors for the controls.
The first panel is done, and has dual 3" trackballs. In the empty space in the center, I mounted a stick at 45 degrees for Q*Bert and Congo Bongo. I'm using leaf buttons on this one. I'm still working out some dual mouse issues, but it otherwise works great!
The second panel will be done this afternoon. It has dual Wico 8-way leaf sticks and a funky nine button-per-player arrangement that will work for for most games I'll be playing. To the right of each joystick is a typical 6-button fighting pad. Below that is fire button oriented to make a Defender-like arrangement. To the left of the stick are two extra buttons I'll use for left/right controls like in Space Invaders, Asteroids and Space Duel.
Dunno if the message board will show this well, but I'll give it a shot:
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This is an expansion of what I did in my original stand-alone panel.
Next is a Battlezone/Tron/Tempest/Arkanoid panel, and finally a Steering wheel panel.
I've been on this stuff for two full weeks and the wife is getting frustrated. Do you still have a girlfriend?!? Hah!
- Dave