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Please critique my control panel (very detailed with pics)
FrizzleFried:
--- Quote from: Turnarcades on March 08, 2009, 08:23:50 pm ---There's nothing wrong with angling player 3+4's joysticks though if you are interested in playing those few games that use 2 per player you will want them fairly close together and pointing in the same direction. That size is plenty big enough for what you want to do, though ask yourself if you really need a dedicated 4-way stick and uttons as there are many switchable or programmable sticks that will do the job just as well, plus P1's buttons can be used if playing spinner or trackball games.
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You NEVER want to angle your sticks... EVER.
Even if your 3rd and 4th player are sitting way on the side, ALWAYS face the stick forward toward the monitor... and frankly, I am surprised that a "builder" of CP's is recommending the opposite?! :dunno
Turnarcades:
I commented on this in another post Friz:
--- Quote ---Quote from: HarumaN on 17-02-2009, 18:51:58
Are the player 3 & 4 joys mounted on an angle?
Yes. A lot of people critique this layout based on a lot of original 4-player cabinets having sticks that were aligned with the screen, however the trials I did had people saying they felt no disorientation with angled sticks and we have stuck with this layout ever since. If you think about it, you don't look at your controls while you play so why should anyone experience difficulty? We've all played multi-player console games and it's rare you will all be sat square on with the TV with your joypad (at least not in homes I've lived in) so it's really no different.
If the customer had specified a preference for forward-facing sticks we would do that, but quite often the 3rd and 4th players are a rarity so most people would not bother. Keeping the regular layout for those player's buttons and bringing them square with the monitor would also mean making the control panel much wider and ungainly anyway so no-one has ever asked for that.
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It does tend to be a British preference (a point I've highlighted many times with other design aspects) but as explained above you can see my reasoning behind it. Our customers love this as it makes for more compact panels, and no customer has ever asked for forward-facing, or ever queried why they are angled.
FrizzleFried:
I dunno... I learned in CONTROL PANEL CREATION 101 that you never want to angle your sticks... :dunno
cmoses:
--- Quote from: FrizzleFried on March 09, 2009, 01:09:10 pm ---I dunno... I learned in CONTROL PANEL CREATION 101 that you never want to angle your sticks... :dunno
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Just starting my control panel and could really use the "Control Panel Creation 101" class. Do you think they are allowing late adds? Can I take it Pass/Fail? ::)
FrizzleFried:
Sure thing... tuition is $350.00 plus book fee...