My ideal button placement

[Zipper]

I've noticed a lot of people have lots of different ideas and designs on their button layout.
I'm wondering if anyone else has designed their layout in the same way as myself...

Relax your right hand and place it comfortably to the right of your joystick. The middle of your fingernails are where the centre of the holes are drilled.

Have you noticed that on many jamma cabinets the center button of the three is raised above the other 2 slightly? And on Neo-Geo cabs, the fourth button is often below the other three buttons?

They follow the length of your fingers, and are spaced the width of the gap between your fingers (when hand is relaxed) too.

Playing games with a layout like this is a dream, as you can relax your palm on the panel, and not have to move it for each button press. Also, it is customised to your hand.

Has anyone else tried this?

[Lilwolf]

I tried a few layouts like that, but ended up moving them back to a straight line.

why?

Its closer to the arcade machines I wanted to emulate.  (StreetFighter games).

I choose the SF games as my base, and haven't been disappointed yet.

but for one thing

I wish I did 3 buttons on top, and 4 on the bottom.  Some neogeo games suck without all 4 next to each other.

I might redo my main control panel soon since I messed up on one on the joystick 1 (on a 4player controlpanel).  I don't like the angle I added

[SteveJ34]

8< snip

Relax your right hand and place it comfortably to the right of your joystick. The middle of your fingernails are where the centre of the holes are drilled.

Have you noticed that on many jamma cabinets the center button of the three is raised above the other 2 slightly? And on Neo-Geo cabs, the fourth button is often below the other three buttons?

They follow the length of your fingers, and are spaced the width of the gap between your fingers (when hand is relaxed) too.

Playing games with a layout like this is a dream, as you can relax your palm on the panel, and not have to move it for each button press. Also, it is customised to your hand.

Has anyone else tried this?

This is what I did, ie: placed my hand and spaced middle button slightly higher than outside buttons. I made 2 rows of three in this manner by spacing bottom row just below the top.

I'm in the final stages of my cab (only marquee and front glass to install) and have been playing this way for weeks and love it.

I also received a "thumbs up" from my 12 year old son and all his buddies who now seem to congregate at our house since we got the cab up and running.

Steve

[Carsten Carlos]

Hi!

Tried to make it as ergonomically as possible, too.
I havn't found out which NeoGeo-Games want 4 buttons, so I left it with six buttons.
If you'd like to have a look, http://arcade@Mittelalterlicher-Markt.de
No fear, it is written in english, but currently a mess for this page is not "officially" opened. (Have a look under 'Control Panel'. The shift-button located right from the 1up-start button will be removed though.

So long,
Carsten Carlos