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Sinner:
I want to start building my CP, but I seem to have come up with a lot of design problems.  I'm trying to figure out Adobe Illustrator, so I hope to be able to post a picture soon...for now, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

A) If using the Project Arcade plans, and wanting to build it for 4 players, how deep can you go with the CP? 
The plans call for 18", by 34" (I think)...could you go as deepr as 20"?  I was thinking 48"x20".
I'm having problems figuring out what to do about 2 player double joystick games (like Karate Champ).  I've read some posts, and I'll have to work on that a bit more.

B) What is the general prference for coin buttons?  Should they be on the CP, under the CP, or use a shifted key?  I think my personal preference would be, not to see them.

C)  Any suggestions on my controls. I plan on picking up a spinner, and adding a dedicated angled 4-way stick for Congo Bongo, and Q-Bert. So far, I have the following parts:
1 - ipac4
2 - T Stik Plus
1 - Optipac
1 - HAPP 3" trackball
A bunch of HAPP supers
A ton of buttons, of every colour.
markrvp:
I recently went the 49-way route and find this to be a good solution.  I would be tempted to sell your other sticks and go with 49-ways.  That way you could play Karate Champ using the player 1 & 2 joysticks set to 4-way mode.  You also wouldn't have to have more than 4 joysticks on the panel for a 4 player setup.  You could play two-player Smash TV with the Player 3 & 1 joysticks and the Player 2 & 4 joysticks.

I know not everybody wants to do it this way, but it sure is a nice way if you are doing just one panel and not going to have multiple control panels.
Sinner:

--- Quote from: markrvp on May 24, 2005, 12:03:52 pm ---I recently went the 49-way route and find this to be a good solution.
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Veinman:
On the coin buttons-
In my opinion, the coolest way to do this is to actually rig up a real coind door that works.

Alternatively, I would definitely NOT put the buttons on the front edge since people will always bump them. I would put them on the top of the panel or possibly at the bottom of the bezel. Another alternative is putting one in front of each player area.
Sinner:

--- Quote from: Veinman on May 24, 2005, 12:14:30 pm ---On the coin buttons-
In my opinion, the coolest way to do this is to actually rig up a real coind door that works.

Alternatively, I would definitely NOT put the buttons on the front edge since people will always bump them. I would put them on the top of the panel or possibly at the bottom of the bezel. Another alternative is putting one in front of each player area.

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It will be a while, before i add a coin door, since I don't quite have the coin to purchase it...
I was thinking of mounting them under the CP towards the front, where it overhangs the cabinet....
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