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leapinlew:
I've done some experimenting. My first cabinet was a standard Nintendo cabinet. It was 22.5". When designing the control panel, I was trying to decide if I could go with a street fighter layout. I settled on building it with 2 joysticks and 2 buttons per player. Playing Joust and Mario Bros. with some of my friends was very close quarters. We would stand shoulder to shoulder.

I created a new control panel for that machine. Single 4 way joystick and 3 buttons.



The next machine was a wide body Nintendo that was 3 inches wider at 25.5 (it may just be 24.5). A street fighter layout was very comfortable with a street fighter layout. So, for me and my fat ass friends - 25" seems to be comfortable.


 
AtomSmasher:

--- Quote from: SGT on April 08, 2007, 03:10:54 pm ---AtomSmasher,

I was looking at your project thread, and it looked like at one time the inside width of your panel was 30".  Did you narrow it down in the later stages?

--- End quote ---
No, I used the layouts from the project arcade cd and shrunk them by 3/4.  If you look at the first post where I put up the template you can see that I mentioned that the numbers were wrong.
Doc-:
I would say 24" is reasonable - my modular mame is 24" wide in the interior (about 25-1/2" overall with the sides), and two people can easily stand or sit and play just about any game.

Cheers!
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