I am hoping to begin work on my control panel this week and have been doing a lot of reading and research. I have updated my control panel layout to reflect the curved button layout that I am going with. I also realized that I needed to move the trackball up some to allow room for the control panel hinge.
The big thing I have done is decide to put the spinners on the outsides. Player 1 (left side) was already there, but I originally had the Player 2 (right side) spinner next to the track ball. I decided to move it to the outside. I think this makes it look a little cleaner and more uniform. The spinners/mini wheels are represented in the picture by the button with the big blue circle around it. This is the 5" mini wheel that I want to use. I think there is plenty of clearance now on both sides. I even have a little more room to move them out further if I need to for clearance.
This layout gives lots of options as far as number of games that I can play. The normal games with 1 or 2 players with up to 7 buttons each. Trackball games, spinner games, racing games with the mini wheels and buttons. I also can play single player 2 joystick games. As well as some specialty configurations by using a combination of Player 1 and Player 2 joystick and buttons for games like Defender, Stargate, Asteroids, etc.
Please let me know what you think and if you have any thoughts or suggestions.
P.S. the joysticks show as 8 way, but I will be using U360's for maximum options (2 way, 4 way, 8 way, diagonal, analog, etc.)