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| hyiu:
Hi All: I was originally thinking a 2 player SF style layout with a trackball in the middle in the beginning.... (about 28 in wide...) will be using a 21 in computer monitor. cab will be around 26 in wide... but then.... after I played mspacman and stuff using a dedeciated J-stick as a 4 way.... I realize I have to have a 4 way.... I was thinking put like 2 trigger sticks, 4 way, and a spinner on another panel that can be swapped.... but then when my friends come over... if they switch games too often... I'll be switching panels too often.... (NOT FUN !!!) So, I'm now trying to extend my ctrl panel to like 38 in.... have a standard SF 2 player layout... in the middle.... have a spinner and trackball... (spinner on left)... and also to the left of 1 player's stick, put a dedeciated 4 way J-stick.... (I was trying to put up some pics....) but geocities is bad.... so.... I have to describe it for now..... anyone has any suggestions to this layout ?? how about if I put the 4 way to the left of the 2 player's stick instead ??.... (then when playing 4 way games, you'll be in the center....) ---------------------------------------- | | | 4 8 ooo s O 8 ooo | | ooo ooo | | | ---------------------------------------- or ---------------------------------------- | | | 8 ooo s O 4 8 ooo | | ooo ooo | | | ---------------------------------------- any comments welcome.... |
| hyiu:
appearently... noone has any comments.... :P |
| SNAAAKE:
If I were you I would build something like that mamestation 2 panel. trackball and pacman stick in the middle. I know his panel is like 43" but you can modify the design to suit your needs. |
| spidermonkey:
You may want to check out the control layout and the cp dimentions on the slik sticks. From the looks of them they seem to do a pretty good job at control placement and makeing the most out of the cp real estate. And no I am in no way affiliated with the slik stick gang ::) but I did model my control placement very similar to classic model. I think a couple of guys around here have them and may be able to tell you if they are in fact ergonomically comfortable. :-\ |
| Unkis17:
I too modeled off of SlikStik. My CP is 40", but could easily be brought down to 38", hell prolly 34" if you wanted. I had the room so i took it. I would stay away from swapping if possible, unless of coarse you are a Tron nut or want something exotic like dual Crazy Climber / Toobin' effects. I would put that 4 way in the upper middle if possible. This way you can map buttons to both sides for left handed / right handed preferance. As well as you won't hit the 4 way when using P1 or spinner (if i understand your layout). |
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