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ratzz:

--- Quote from: bfauska on November 22, 2007, 05:03:29 pm ---It's come up before and the general opinion was that for joystick-only games some people use their right hand on the joystick, but if there are buttons involved the buttons usually require a little more dexterity than the crude movements of the joystick.

On a side note, it's also the way most console controllers are set up.  Directional control with the left hand and buttons with the right, and on later models any available extra finger.

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Good answer bfauska, I'd never thought of it like that - although it was something I'd been pondering ...
SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: bfauska on November 22, 2007, 05:03:29 pm ---On a side note, it's also the way most console controllers are set up.  Directional control with the left hand and buttons with the right, and on later models any available extra finger.

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That should be interesting to see a compilation of "regular" and "goofy" styles. Off the top of my head, the only goofies I know of is the classic Atari stick and the SMS joy. I don't recall of any others off the top of my head. I'll have to look at my collection.
NoOne=NBA=:
Another reason to have the buttons on the right is that nearly all the "button-only" games had the thrust/jump and fire buttons on the right, with the movement buttons on the left.
That means that most people will be used to the fastest button pressing with their right hand.
jcoleman:
A friend of mine made a SF-style panel with the buttons on the left and the sticks on the right...we make fun of him for it all the time.  When the Nintendo was first released, we all thought it was nuts that the d-pad was on the left.  Of course it only took 1 game of SMB to get used to it.  I'd recommend the standard setup - most people will be expecting it and will find it too difficult to play another way.

Look at it this way: when you pick up a guitar, which seems more complex to you, fretting or picking?  I'd say it's the fretting, yet right-handers fret with their left hands all the time.

Coleman
MaximRecoil:

--- Quote from: eytzni on November 22, 2007, 01:30:25 pm ---Hi,

My apologies if this is a newbie question...

I'm designing my control panel and when looking in lots of samples I have noticed that most joystics are on the left side of the buttons (which means I have to hold the joystic using my left hand and press the buttons with my right hand) and for some reason this looks a bit odd to me since I'm a right handed I think it will be much more convenient to hold the stick using my right hand and the buttons with the left. ???
Can anyone explain this to me?

Thanks

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Have you ever played a real arcade machine before? I can't think of any with a typical joystick/button manner of control that had the joystick on the right, aside from bad conversions (sometimes the 2nd player joystick would be wrong-sided).
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