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Author Topic: GaryMcT's spinner/trackball single player control panel  (Read 1350 times)

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GaryMcT's spinner/trackball single player control panel
« on: September 05, 2009, 09:26:24 pm »
So I'm not finished with my first control panel ( http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=94330.0 )  so what's the right thing to do?  Start planning another one! :)

I made a list of games that I'd like to be able to play but I can't play them on my generic two-player control panel.  Looks like I need a right-hand stick with a fire button on it, a trackball, and a spinner.

Here's my first take at the layout. . what do you think?  I'm keeping the left-hand stick and buttons very similar to the other one that I'm working on since that seems to be working.  Some of the buttons could probably get removed if they needed to, but it's nice to have them there.  I mostly play games by myself and I can leave this new single-player control panel on there most of the time.

I can't think of any games where the spinner or trackball is controlled by the left hand, and there is a regular button on the right hand.  The ones do anything non-spinner/trackball with the right hand are all using a joystick with a fire button.



My blog on learning how to develop FPGA versions of arcade boards: http://garymct.blogspot.com