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| thelevin8r:
My Arcade panel layout The link below will take you to a large JPG of the CP I'm designing in Visio. I changed of few of the designs that were in there to accomodate my Oscar joystic mounting plane, a 2.25" track ball, and an Oscar spinner. I would like to here any inpot on what you would do to make it better. The horizontal line you see running through the Trackball marks the size of the original panel. The other diagonal lines and arched lines are thoughts on where to cut the panel. What do you think of the button layout? In this one I don't have a left and right fire buttons for the top center joystick, but I think I should. Incidentally I am using Oscars joystick mounting plate and restrictors on this one so I can switch between pacman and qbert. The stick will be a Happs super in 8 way mode. I also have a 2.25 wico track and an Oscar spinner and mounting plate. I think the mouse buttons are out of place too. Any input welcome!!! http://home.attbi.com/~levindavie/Arcade_Controls_layout.jpg TheLevin8R |
| Wienerdog:
I personally would put the spinner on the left for Tron, but that depends on what you are targeting the spinner for. |
| SirPoonga:
do you play bowling games? or golf games with the tball? And I assume the middle 8way is for 4way, why not just get a 4way stick? |
| Nailz:
I would re-think the mouse buttons, if you are right handed, move them both to the left so you can use the buttons and keep your hand on the trackball as opposed to having to keep switching hands depending on what you want to do with your mouse/trackball. Also seems like the trackball and the player 2 and the the restricted joystick are quite close together, could be trouble with Missile Command, Centipede, etc., you could end up slapping into those sticks. As for the extra joystick with the mounting plate, why not just put the plate on your one player stick when you need it instead of buying an extra 8-way? I can see having a dedicated 4-way, but the 8-way I don't get. Your spinner is going to be really far away from your player 1 control buttons, could make it awkward to play some of those games I think. It looks like you have a good start, but things seem really close together and compact, is space an issue with your CP? |
| rampy:
--- Quote from: SirPoonga on March 25, 2003, 02:26:05 am ---do you play bowling games? or golf games with the tball? And I assume the middle 8way is for 4way, why not just get a 4way stick? --- End quote --- If you do play golf or bowling games and like an exagerated swing (more palm slapping than thumbs or easy rolling) you are likely to get a knuckle full of 4 or 8 way stick if you place it at 12 o'clock from the trackball... Maybe it'll be less of an issue with a smaller trackball... but only a mock up and a few brave golden tee swings willl tell you for sure... *shrug* rampy |
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