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I'm making a 1 player ~20" wide CP, looking for suggestions. 2 joys? 3 buttons?
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leapinlew:
Heres my latest arcades CP. It's 17.5" wide. Meant to play multi-williams

quarterback:
(note for clarity: This was being typed while leapinlew's above post was posted.  In this post, I'm referring to the graphic included in this post, not leapinlew's)
I'm liking this one the best.   It's a Defender style layout but, unlike the multi-williams' I've seen, the buttons are between the two joysticks instead of on the far right.

It would allow me to play all my non-Defender games while standing basically centered (which I like) but also allows for the 2-joystick games.

My biggest concern is whether or not I'd be bumping the "hyperspace" button at the bottom while playing non-defender games.  But only a real mock up would let me know.     I could try moving the 'hyperspace' over to the right some more which might also give me a 4-button layout for those few 1-player games that want 4-buttons.

quarterback:

--- Quote from: leapinlew on November 21, 2006, 11:03:38 pm ---Heres my latest arcades CP. It's 17.5" wide. Meant to play multi-williams



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Dig it.   I like the fact your 'defender' joystick is centered (EDIT: Acutally, I think I'm wrong and the one on the far lef is the 'defender' joystick.  Either way it's probably not an issue since your CP is only 17")

So, on the right hand side, the two lowest buttons are "hyperspace' and "inviso"?     Have you tried this button placement?  Cuz, like I mentioned in the post that I was typing while you were posting,  I think I might want to move my 'hyperspace' over to the right some, similar to yours but I'm curious how it 'plays' having that one right below the other.
NoOne=NBA=:
Being a much bigger fan of Asteroids than Defender, I would go with this layout.
It lets you play all the button games (Space Invaders, Phoenix, etc...) with buttons, rather than the joystick.
leapinlew:
ahh....

What I like about yours is the sticks are centered for Robotron. Thats a good move.

I sort of let the art dictate my control placement. I opted for the controls to be more angled, and I almost have my CP done so I'll post pics of it in my project announcement.

I can totally dig wanting a defender style layout. If I built a 20" CP - I would probably have the space to do the sticks like you did, but I would've spent much more time getting the art to work. I downloaded my artwork from localarcade and modified it.
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