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Todd H:

I think I'm going to add a Happs Trigger Joystick with the Tron restrictor that Encryptor makes. That would give me my perfect control panel.

shmokes:


--- Quote from: Visitor Q on September 18, 2008, 10:50:41 am ---
That is way too many sticks. We are talking 4 sticks on a two player setup!


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Ah . . . now that just hurts my feelings . . .  ;D

web.geek:


--- Quote from: shmokes on September 16, 2008, 05:41:05 pm ---My "other" panel, has is two-player, two sticks per player.  One of the sticks is top-fire per player is top-fire, the other rotates Ikari-Warriors-style.
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That is the configuration I am using for my 2 player panel. How did you wire those up. Does player 1 use the 1P and 3P joysticks and player 2 use the 2P and 4P? I am looking at the WizRX-ST encoder for the rotary sticks, but I don't know how to wire up the 2nd joysticks for each player? There is only room for two sticks on that encoder. Which would you recommend for this setup? Do I need more than 1 encoder? Thanks!

DeLuSioNal29:

I think that the placement of the spinner depends if you are a right handed or left handed player.  For games like Golden Tee, if you are right handed, it helps to put the spinner on the right, because you hand naturally arcs to the left when you spin it up.  If you are left handed, the spinner should be on the left for the same reason, as you hand naturally arcs to the right.

As for Web.geek's question.  I wired player one and two's left joysticks normally, then I doubled up on player 3 and 4 for the right joysticks on player one and two.  So when playing a 2 player game like Smash TV, it works great.  Also when playing a 4 player game like Gauntlet, Player 1 and 2 only use the left joysticks.  Players 3 and 4 use the normal 3 and 4 joys as well.  (If players 1 and 2 touch the joys on the right, they also move players 3 and 4, but the players normally never touch the right joys in 4 player games.)

It works great for me.  Below is a pic of my panel design before I built it.

~ D

DeLuSioNal29:

One last important detail that I forgot to mention earlier.  The Mameroom panel designer defaults the spinner to the "standard" spinner hole which is slightly bigger than the normal button holes.  This is fine if you are getting any other spinner, but if you are getting the TT2 from www.groovygamegear.com, you will need to design the layout with a standard button hole in place of the normal spinner, since this is what the TT2 fits in.

Just thought I'd mention it.

~ D



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