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Trackball Placement
urbecrisch:
That's what I thought. BTW, what kind of spinner you do have? I have a TT2 from GGG that I will be using for my CAB.
FrizzleFried:
I have two TT2's...one on my horizontal cabinet (HAD to be able to play Ivan Stewart's Offroad & Blasteroids!) and one on my vertical cabinet.
fjl:
Speaking of the spinner, where would you place it? Here is a pic of my current CP layout. I currently have the spinner above the player 1 action buttons. But was thinking, how do you guys use the spinner? Do you find yourself resting the side of your hand or any part of your hand on the CP while using the spinner or is it floating above the cp the whole time? Cause if you rest it, it will rest on the buttons and I doubt that would be comfortable for the player.
I was originally putting the spinner above the track ball but everyone insists on keeping the area above the trackball clear for "ouch" reasons. One other thing, should I add buttons near the spinner or should I use the P2 buttons for spinner games? Thing about using the p2 action buttons is that they seem to be pretty far away and would perhaps be uncomfortable. What do you guys think/suggest?
shardian:
Word of advice: don't angle the player buttons like that. It will make 1player have to stand even further into 2players space. If you do want to angle buttons, then angle 1players the other way so he/she can orient themselves properly to the monitor.
urbecrisch:
I haven't built my CP yet but I was thinking of placing my spinner close to my player 2 controller since it has topfire and want to be able to use the spinner for TRON. Hopefully this weekend I will have a good idea of my CP layout. BTW, is it necessary to have 7 buttons for each player? I know NEO GEO had that setup but is it something that I should use for my CP? I was planning on 6 buttons for player 1&2 for my CP.
One more thing, right now I'm using Mame but in the future I would like to add onto my CAB with Playstation and Xbox emulators if possible. How many buttons are recommended for a 2 player CP for these other sytems?