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| TOK:
--- Quote from: spystyle on January 03, 2010, 11:45:38 am ---So there is all this talk about the layout of the controls being uncomfortable, is someone going to make a perfect layout? Also, have there been any complaints about the height of the Defender stick? Wasn't the original Defender stick lower than a regular 8-way? --- End quote --- There is a reason for the bad Reverse button spacing... For Multi-Williams, you're using a standard 8 way in place of Defenders' 2 way. The base is wider, and getting the button/stick spacing correct would mean cutting the sticks mounting plate. I also shimmed my stick down to get the height correct... Since I was mainly looking at emulating Defender and Stargate, I wanted all that stuff correct. Here is picture showing where I cut the base of a Sanwa 8 way. I shimmed the height down with washers under the panel. |
| Kevin Mullins:
--- Quote from: spystyle on January 03, 2010, 01:27:41 pm ---Swappable panels would be very easy to make :) --- End quote --- That's exactly what started my whole little project of building this control panel. He has a JROK Multi in a Defender cab and we are keeping the original Defender panel for just Defender and Stargate and making the multi panel for the rest basically. I would think the biggest reason some of the buttons seem to be in the wrong locations (like the reverse, etc) is due to the fact that the 8-way joysticks and whatnot have a much larger base, so the buttons have to be a bit further in order to mount them. EDIT: Yeah, what he said. :) |
| TOK:
Also, why not just use the Thrust and Fire buttons instead of adding more next to the left stick? Is this an attempt to make it work for 2 players at same time? |
| jukingeo:
--- Quote from: TOK on January 03, 2010, 03:37:31 pm ---Also, why not just use the Thrust and Fire buttons instead of adding more next to the left stick? Is this an attempt to make it work for 2 players at same time? --- End quote --- No, I mentioned early on that I wanted two buttons on the left side because then I could play button only games. My goal was to create a panel like this (see below): You can clearly see the Asteroids button arrangement right in there. The creator of this arcade cabinet even says that this particular panel allows the user to play over 90% of the games listed on Mame. That was my main reasoning. But I have read about the importance of moving the reverse button over anyway, so that seemed like a good idea to implement that as well. As for swapping panels, yeah, I have that in mind with a full size cabinet. But for now I am concentrating on a smaller bar top design. Geo |
| spystyle:
The joystick mounting plate can be cut, anything can be cut :) |
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