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4 button - square or diagonal?
shmokes:
I've seen people work this a number of different ways and I can't decide which would be best for a panel with four butons per stick:
o
o o
o
or
o o
o o
What do you think, and why?
SirPoonga:
I'd go with square, but that's cause I play star trek. how ever, diamond would work better for missle command and double dragon.
shmokes:
That's really all I need I think. I'll go with square. I have to admit that I hadn't even considered diamond (though I had seen it) until I saw Frosty's new rotating control panel. That thing is beautiful.
OSCAR:
Have you seen any of Zakk's control panels? www.mameworld.net/massive
I notice he uses a lot of diamond patterns for his cabinets and they seem to look pretty handy for a more classic control panel layout rather than a fighter layout.
hedge:
I would go with the diagonal layout since it would allow me to play 3 button games like Bank Panic much easier.