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| Scumgriever:
Hey all, Just finished the plans for my control panel and was hoping for a little input. I’m having a little trouble with the trackball placement. Ideally, I’d like a 3 inch happ ball but I’m worried that there just isn’t enough room, perhaps not even for the smaller 2 and a bit sized one. The big one leaves 101 mm (4 inches) between the top of the ball while the small one leaves 127 mm (5 inches) Will this be enough room?? It’s especially problematic because of the design of my cab, as you can see in the pic it has a short vertical panel for the credit buttons and coin slot which I am worried will be a finger breaker. I don’t play much of the golf games so don’t expect to be absolutely smashing it but I do like the odd game of Simpsons bowling and in general want to have the option to play trackball games (Marble Madness especially). Also I was thinking of having some PC games that need a mouse. Not first person shooters so much but other things, Worms for example. Of course any comments on the other parts of the control panel would be much appreciated and taken on board as well. I am umming and erring about how far apart the Player 1 and Player 2 controls should be. At the moment there is 140mm (5.51 inches) between the centre of the rightmost P1 button and the centre of the P2 joystick. And 314mm (12.36 inches) between the P1 & P2 joys. I don’t want to be knocking elbows during Street Fighter tournaments but I also don’t want to be too cramped or have to come in at too weird an angle during 4 player Vendetta or Ninja Turtles. I’m still trying to think of a design for the overlay and a theme for the machine overall. It’s a big hulking 4 player green thing so of course initial thoughts were of Ninja Turtles but it’s going to be running a few thousand games thru mame plus NES, SNES, Master System ,MegaDrive/Genesis and Playstation(maybe) emulators so I don’t want to tie it so closely to one game. Maybe still going to stick with the mutant part though. Any ideas would be a huge help. |
| Scumgriever:
Just thought I'd add a jpeg for easy viewing. In each pic the small trackball is on the top, the big on the bottom... obviously. The top jpeg is full scale, the bottom one is at 30% to see it all at once easily. |
| destructor:
Which hand you use to play on trackball? Left or right? |
| Scumgriever:
--- Quote from: destructor on December 05, 2006, 10:25:16 am ---Which hand you use to play on trackball? Left or right? --- End quote --- Right. |
| destructor:
Hmm... then can be problem with confortable play on trackball, because P2 joystick will block your hand. |
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