The NEW Build Your Own Arcade Controls
Main => Project Announcements => Topic started by: Zinfari on March 14, 2003, 01:18:18 am
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Just thought I'd toss out my CP layout and yes I do know that there aren't any 6+ button games for players 3 and 4. I'm future proofing (and the like the uniformity of all the players looking the same.) Anyway let me know what you think. The only thing I'm trying to figure out is whether to go with 7 or 8 buttons. ;D
Also I have to send out a thanks to JQ for supplying the character pics!
Anyway let me know what you think.
-Zinfari
(http://zinfari.iwarp.com/images/cp-layout4.jpg)
(http://zinfari.iwarp.com/images/cp-layout5.jpg)
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I like it,Its pretty good looking :) and very colorfull(I like colorfull stuff ;D)
1 thing bothering me though..that 4th button on the top row..thats for what?Neo geo?.
Other then that,GOOD JOB ! :)
And you should go with the second art,you know...play mortal kombat. ;)
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Thanks Snaaake and yea it did take more than 5 minutes. ;)
I'm leaning towards the 8 button... I also have another 7 button that has the MK layout. The 8th button really serves 2 purposes.
1. NeoGeo layout is easy
2. If for some reason I ever decide to try to put a console in as well, as most of them have 8 button controllers. (may not be practical, but hey this is about me right) :P
-Zinfari
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Thanks Snaaake and yea it did take more than 5 minutes. ;)
I'm leaning towards the 8 button... I also have another 7 button that has the MK layout. The 8th button really serves 2 purposes.
1. NeoGeo layout is easy
2. If for some reason I ever decide to try to put a console in as well, as most of them have 8 button controllers. (may not be practical, but hey this is about me right) :P
-Zinfari
Yeah playing neo geo games would be little better..and there might be some console game that uses 8 buttons all the way.who knows what capcom is cooking now a days(ya never know ;D)?
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Looks nice... But you have to consider is that 4 player games didn't usually use more than 2-3 buttons (someone correct me if im wrong!).. So the 3rd and 4th player setup would kind of be a waste.. Also, personally, if I did a 4 player cp, I would make more room for the 1 and 2 players since you will probably playing those types of games more.. Not unless you have to have everything evenly spaced :)
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Looks really nice. I think it'll work out fine. Reminds me of Gauntlet.
I'm feeling warm and fuzzy!
Uh oh, better get the blue ointment out again.
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I like the second one better, and if you do that you may not need the 4th button on the top row. You could use the bottom row of 3 plus that "run" button for neogeo games.
I'm guessing your planning on n64 emulation (super smash brothers!) or something in addition to mame. If you're only running Mame though, it only needs a max of 4 buttons for players 3 and 4 plus additional start buttons for the Dungeons and Dragons games. That will save you some space on the cp.
You may want to scrap the labeling of players 1, 2, 3, and 4. Some games like TMNT have it so Player 1 is always the furthest left, though I guess you chould change that by remapping the coin buttons within mame for that individual game. The Simpsons is like that as well (another konami game).
I like the color separation, but I have an additional idea/suggestion. Perhaps in photoshop you could enlarge each players graphic (mario) and make it transparent, and saturated with that players color. So for player1 there would be a large reddish transparent mario filling that section of the cp. Just throwing that idea in for you.
Looks good. -Jay
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Looks nice... But you have to consider is that 4 player games didn't usually use more than 2-3 buttons (someone correct me if im wrong!).. So the 3rd and 4th player setup would kind of be a waste.. Also, personally, if I did a 4 player cp, I would make more room for the 1 and 2 players since you will probably playing those types of games more.. Not unless you have to have everything evenly spaced :)
Its for future console games..
Like you know,if you wanna play 3 players sfa3 then you CAN ! ;D.
Like how we used to play..me alone against my 2 brothers(dreamcast version of course).
Its really fun !I won most of the time even though I am fighting 2 people at once(yes I know I rule when it comes to any street fighter :o).
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DJ good call on the 1-4 player thing... hadn't really thought about it. I'll either pull the text or replace it with something else that isn't player specifig. Also means that I need to replace my 1-4 player white buttons I had been planning on useing... hmmm....
I think I'm going to keep all 8 buttons at this point. Mainly because I like them, I have room and hopefully it future proofs me a bit (at least that's what I"m hoping :D)
As far as the large transparent images... I tried it out and it looks pretty good, but I just don't have high enough res pictures to pull it off. I have to scale the images about 500% and they are just to grainy when scaled that far. I'll post them later when I get a chance so you can see what they look like.
Keep the comments coming!
Thanks,
-Zinfari
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I have a hack on my site for mame that will "sense" pnumber of players and you can remap accordingly.
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Hadn't even thought of that.... makes me wonder what else I haven't thought of.
Thanks SirPoonga those will definately make things easier.
-Zinfari
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as everyone has already said - good CP, the whole multi-colour thing is nice...
...but what is the graphic next to player 4?
player 1 = Mario
player 2 = Megaman
player 3 = Pcaman
player 4 = drunk purple fish?
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ah, stupid me not thinking when i looked at it...it's obvious now
red = mario
blue = megaman
yellow = pacman
green = frogger
been at work for 12 hours...brain no worky
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as everyone has already said - good CP, the whole multi-colour thing is nice...
...but what is the graphic next to player 4?
player 1 = Mario
player 2 = Megaman
player 3 = Pcaman
player 4 = drunk purple fish?
PURPLE?
Where do you work in a nuclear power plant? hehe That brain needs some rest! ;)
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mabye it's my eyes, or my monitor, or that stick of plutonium i keep next to my keyboard, but froggers chest looks kinda purple...
:P
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mabye it's my eyes, or my monitor, or that stick of plutonium i keep next to my keyboard, but froggers chest looks kinda purple...
:P
Have you been smokin weed again? LOL !
Frogger's chest look white and his mouth(inside) looks VERY little purple.
Again,I know you are working hard. :P
Happend to me once.
Thorn posted something about his cabinet and I thought it was Howard casto because same avater and I was bashing him around with "this isnt even your cabinet Howard".
Because I worked like over 16 hours that day.
WASNT FUNNY AT ALL :P :-X
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my monitor obviously need adjusting...doesn't look white
:P
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Thanks for the reply folks... I have one more question for the Adobe Illustrator folks out ther (I'll probably post to the main forum as well, but thought I'd try here first.)
Anyway anyone know how you setup dimensions in Adobe. Apparently (and after you think about it it makes sence) pixels and dpi are different. So I'm creating my CP overlay and using 150 pixels per inch for my drawing. When I go to print it's about 4 times larger than than I think it is. (really dont need a 16' CP ;D) Anyone know how to set up printing so 150 pixels = 1 inch?
Thanks,
-Zinfari
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not sure about illustrator, i don't really use it, but couldn't you import the image into photoshop and change the dimensions?
you can enter the dots-per-inch figure and setup the actual print size...
just a thought
:P
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I just updated the pics up top to reflect some of the suggestions. What do folks think of the Mario/MegaMan/Pacman/Frogger text? Also how does it look if I go with 7 menu buttons instead of 5? Less is better, but I don't want to get into a situation where I need more than I thought I did.
Anyway I'm headed to the printer probably tomorrow or Wednesday so if anyone has any other suggestions bring'em on!
Thanks all
-Zinfari
P.S. As promised here's Dr. J's request... it looks cool, but I just don't have hi enough res photos of the chars to pull it off. Looks nice this size though... enjoy.
(http://zinfari.iwarp.com/images/cp-big.jpg)
And I couldn't resist showing off my 4 player coin door... color coded to match!
(http://zinfari.iwarp.com/images/day_7-9_-_laminate-assemble_3-low.jpg)
And the latest picture... just waiting of the CP.....
(http://www.zinfari.iwarp.com/images/day_7-9_-_laminate-assemble_8-low.jpg)
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woooooooo...I LIKE IT ! ::)
Its pretty good looking so far.
the top part looks very similer to mamestation 2 cabinet.
Do I see a d9200 monitor up there :D?
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Hadn't even thought of that.... makes me wonder what else I haven't thought of.
Thanks SirPoonga those will definately make things easier.
-Zinfari
Hope you don't mind rolling your own mame.
It's pretty easy to use. Learn how to use ctrlr files. Setup default so the players are in this order:
3124
Then make a player3.ini and player4.ini file with mappings to make it
1234
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Well... the CP is pretty much done. Have a look. I ended up having the resolution to do the big chars after all (a bit of a mix up on my part on what res I was working in.)
(http://zinfari.iwarp.com/images/day_10-13_cp_wiring_1-low.jpg)
(http://zinfari.iwarp.com/images/day_10-13_cp_top_6-low.jpg)
-Zinfari
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Very nice man !
How much was your print though..I am guessing atleast over $50 right? :(
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$70 :-[ ..... $8.5/sq ft (2' x 4'=8' sq ft). Almost printed it out on my 8.5x11 color printer....
-Zinfari
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Any now my marquee... this is pass one. Let me know what you think. I'm still looking for a better font to use...
(http://zinfari.iwarp.com/images/marquee4.jpg)
-Zinfari
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The CP turned out a lot nicer than I thought! Nice job.
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Wow, the CP and the marquee are very sweet indeed, I like them a lot!
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Just updated my Marquee drawing above. Let me know what you all think.
Thanks,
-Zinfari
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Just updated my Marquee drawing above. Let me know what you all think.
Thanks,
-Zinfari
Right track, keep goin! Bolder Yet!
Thicker, wider. How about a font with a white border around it?
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I'll give it a shot Brax, just having a hard time finding a font I like. Might just have to go on a font search...
-Zinfari
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I'll give it a shot Brax, just having a hard time finding a font I like. Might just have to go on a font search...
-Zinfari
http://www.acidfonts.com/
This place has tons of fonts..might wanna try 8).
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I would have your font take up 1/3 of the marquee. I would have it on top of the Space Invaders (since there's lots of them and you could still tell they're there) and your other characters could be in front of the title slightly. I don't think you'd have a problem reading it at all and it would be a nice effect (much like many magazines have pictures overlapping their title sometimes.)
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More updates to my marquee....what do you think?
(http://zinfari.iwarp.com/images/marquee4a.jpg)
-Zinfari
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This one is better then the other one if you ask me..the font made a difference.
You could just you know..make the glowing effect around the edges of the writing "Game on...".
You know...since all the marques are like that..other then that..everything looks nice. :)
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The size of the font and the characters slightly in front have made a world of difference.
Damn I'm good! ha!
Nice work.
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yup, the latest one is definitely the best!
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:o
Extreme envy on my part.
And what a clean wiring job!
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Thanks folks... and yea Brax I have to give you credit, thanks for the input.
-Zinfari