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GaryMcT:

Here's another iteration:



I went down to 7 buttons and moved the 7th button down a bit because seems more ergonomic, gives more space above, AND it looks better for it to be a curve. :)

I rotated the joystick mount to give some space for the player start buttons.  The guideline at the top is as high as I can physically go on this control panel.  I'm a bit worried about the player 1 joystick being too close to the edge of the cab, but playtesting will prove that out.

I'm going with Bender-ish "enter", "exit", and "pause" for the admin buttons in the middle.

I don't yet know where to put a coin button or two.  I suppose I could put a small button next to the player start button on each side.  Ideas?


Ginsu Victim:

It looks like your buttons got further away from the stick. You're gonna need all the elbow room you can get with that small of a panel, so you might want to move the buttons closer.

As for coin buttons....

Maybe I missed this somewhere, but is this going on a cabinet, bartop, or stand-alone control panel? If it's a cabinet, is there a coin door?

Also, you mentioned getting too close to the left edge with the joystick, but if you look at my photo from above, you can see mine is fairly close and I can assure you it's quite comfy.

Bender:

ginsu's got it

move the sticks a little to the right and wire the coin returns for the credit button (I don't think you want any more buttons on a 2 Player CP that small)

GaryMcT:

OK, so move the joysticks to the right a bit, and move the player starts right accordingly so that they are centered between the joystick and the "button 7"?

I'll look into wiring the coin returns, but I'm trying really hard to not do any mods to this machine.  This is going in a Defender machine that I want to be able to go back to being a Defender machine at any point by just swapping some connectors.  I built an adapter to make the Defender control panel plug into an iPac so that I didn't have to mod anything.  I'm at the point now where I can play Defender and Stargate (player 2 start is inviso) on the machine using Mame and easily swap back to playing the PCB Defender.  The next step is to build this fairly generic control panel that I can swap in with Mame.


Ginsu Victim:

Well, Bender and I have two different ideas here. I meant leave the sticks where they are and move the buttons left.

As for the coin door, there's no mods being done if you just change the wiring. It's just simple disconnects. Pull the Defender wires off and plug the new ones in.

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