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DamageCase:
Gday,

I am planning to build a custom arcade / Gaming PC and was looking for opinions on my control panel layout. I dont need a spinner or trackball so I stuck with a basic 2 joystick layout. I will put 2 pinball buttons on the side panels... I wanted to leave enough room in the centre of the panel to use a wireless mouse and also to clip on a Logitech G25 wheel when needed.

I am unsure at the moment on a few things:
1) Are the spacings OK? Can you forsee any issues? I know the layout is not quite the norm but I thought it was more logical to have the 7th button on the left.
2) I bought a mini-pac to connect it all up. Do you know if the "mouse buttons" on the minipac can be re-assigned?
2) I am still deciding on the "function" keys (depending partly on how many buttons I can reassign)... It will definitely have the start buttons. The credits/pause/escape are still being decided on; I know I can use the pinball flippers for credits in a pinch.

Cheers
leapinlew:
Is this layout for fighters? If so, I wouldn't use magstiks without trying them out first. I don't use pause/quit buttons anymore, but I could see the point of having them. What about credit buttons?

Except for that, pretty standard stuff.


vidmouse:
Some of the best advice I got when designing mine...
lay it out on cardboard full-size and test it using a friend.

The angle of the buttons seems a little off to me (tilted too far counter-clockwise)
P1/P2 spacing looks about right.
javeryh:
I highly recommend not putting the "quit" button anywhere near any of the other admin buttons.
Malenko:
I've personally never liked "arc'ed" button layouts. I like the standard Street Fighter layout with the extra "neo geo" button to the bottom left.  makes the 6 button fighters, the neo geos games, and games like NBA JAM have an ideal layout.

your best friend is a couple of cut up pizza boxes with the buttons poked through it.
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