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Control panel design done - Any suggestions?
AceTKK:
yea, the original design is no good. What happens when your buddies come over and are so excited about playing Street Fighter 2? Do you want to explain to them that they can't relive their greatest gaming memories because you botched the layout? The 3x2 (+1) layout is so popular because it's logical, and it works well for pretty much everything.
-Ace-
D5A1AC:
Okay. I have decided that I am just going to go with the 2X3 layout and get used to playing neogeo games that way. I mostly play metal slug and I hardly ever use the 4th button anyway. Does anyone have any suggestions for the way the 2X3 is layed out? I have seen the horizontal layout, an "arched" layout and a sloped layout. Can anyone make any suggestions on this?
Thanks for your help.
paigeoliver:
Is that drawing supposed to be to scale? It doesn't look to scale at all. It LOOKS like you traced the joystick bases and then traced the underside of a leaf switch button for each button and that you traced them kind of big.
D5A1AC:
yeah its to scale, atleast according to the dimensions on ultimarc. I just remembered that the J-stick was 8X9.1 cm and i cut out a cardboard template for the buttons. I did some transform>perspective in pshop as I took the photo on a slight angle, That may have distorted it a bit.