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| XyloSesame:
After five years of MAME with a keyboard, mouse, and gamepad (0.61 was my first), I'm finally taking the plunge and building a cab. 'Bout time. I need advice and/or help designing the FrankenPanel. I'd like to have a versatile 2-player CP with a dedicated 4-way, a spinner, and a TB. After finding inspiration in both panels posted here and commercially available models, this is what I've come up with for a starting point. Before building a mock-up, though, I have a few questions... I've used templates and schemes found on the board for dimensioning, however, the clustered buttons look awfully close to one another. Should I space the buttons further apart for more for comfortable play? Also, I've included a full Asteroids button layout above the TB; will the placement of this get in the way of the TB or spinner? Any suggestions? Thanks... |
| Kajoq:
I like the overall design, But I have a couple minor suggestions you may or may not like. The only things I would say are to move the P1 and P2 buttons slightly further away from the joysticks, and up a little bit. For P2 you might have to scoot the stick a little to the left to accomplish it. In the current configuration it looks like it will be somewhat awkward to play any SNK games, and for really crazy joystick heavy fighters (if you run a PS2 for some MVC2 or something) The buttons being that close to the stick might be a little problematic. Overall thats a great start. What program are you using to illustrate that? All my new buttons came in so its about time for me to build a new control panel to replace the crappy one that came on the cab. I've got a good idea of how i'm gonna lay it out, but would be nice to have a good to-scale graphic to manipulate |
| ids:
somebody here has never played robotron |
| severdhed:
looks like a pretty good layout...here are my suggestions. i would consider creating a little more space between the buttons and sticks, and also moving the buttons towards the back of the panel a little. I dont know what your spacing is like on there, but my buttons are 1.5" apart (measured from the centers of the holes) that keeps them close enough that the feel good, but still enough room to get the button nuts on the back side of them. when placing joysticks, don't forget to take into account the switches and wires that will attach to them. for instance, your player 1 stick is almost directly against the left side of the control panel box. if you keep it there, you will probably have to route out part of the side so that the switch and wires will fit. the joystick templates in those design programs don't show the switches, so it looks like you can put things closer to the sticks than you actually can. this will also come into play with your other sticks as well. the center of my joystick hole to the center of my first button hole are 3 inches apart, it is a nice distance and leaves enough room for everything other than that, it looks pretty nice |
| XyloSesame:
--- Quote from: Kajoq on September 07, 2007, 02:40:39 pm ---What program are you using to illustrate that? --- End quote --- I'm using Visio to dimension and Sketchup to model. Check out the Wiki entry http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/SketchUp_Tips --- Quote from: ids on September 07, 2007, 03:00:25 pm ---somebody here has never played robotron --- End quote --- Not with a keyboard and mouse, that's for sure... One of the many reasons I'm (finally) building. Two 8-ways are what I need for a single-player game, right? --- Quote from: severdhed on September 07, 2007, 03:29:32 pm ---I dont know what your spacing is like on there, but my buttons are 1.5" apart (measured from the centers of the holes) that keeps them close enough that the feel good, but still enough room to get the button nuts on the back side of them. when placing joysticks, don't forget to take into account the switches and wires that will attach to them. --- End quote --- Thanks for the suggestions, I do need to move my sticks and, possibly, the spinner, to allow for wiring. I think we must have used similar sources for our buttons/joystick configs; my buttons are 1.5" apart, and my stick is 3" from the closest button. |
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