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Title: Good Control Panel Dimensions
Post by: LoRDDeVO on December 20, 2003, 11:02:08 pm

Hey Peepz,

What is a good distance between control sticks.  I see tons of layouts and none of them include the distance between players.  My layout has 2 Joys with the traditional 6 button SF layout.  

Any help is much appreciated ;D

Title: Re:Good Control Panel Dimensions
Post by: Sasquatch! on December 21, 2003, 01:11:34 am

You planning on having a trackball or spinner in the middle?

Title: Re:Good Control Panel Dimensions
Post by: Wienerdog on December 21, 2003, 11:48:20 am

Start a trend... post your configuration with dimensions.  You'll get some feedback and everyone else will have an example.

Title: Re:Good Control Panel Dimensions
Post by: LoRDDeVO on December 21, 2003, 10:10:14 pm

 

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Start a trend... post your configuration with dimensions.  You'll get some feedback and everyone else will have an example.

Ok I have done some cardboard mockups and this is what i got so far.  sorry about the file size but it was made to scale.

Any comments are much appreciated

Title: Re:Good Control Panel Dimensions
Post by: OSCAR on December 21, 2003, 10:47:00 pm

My cab's gotten quite a bit of 2-player play on SF, Marvel, etc and it is not uncomfortable at all.  Here is what I used on my upright cabinet, www.oscarcontrols.com/unnamed.  I originally planned my layout to include a trackball, but I didn't want the control panel too cluttered so the trackball got moved to a second control panel.


As built:

(http://www.oscarcontrols.com/unnamed/images/cp1.gif)


Original plan:

(http://www.oscarcontrols.com/unnamed/images/cp2.gif)


Here's the layout for a multi-williams control panel, which also is set up for dual play on Joust, and the joysticks are perfectly spaced for Robotron.  However, the 11 3/4" between joysticks may be a bit close for 2-player fighter games.  (click for larger pic)

(http://www.oscarcontrols.com/tmp/mwilliams-cp1_small.gif) (http://www.oscarcontrols.com/tmp/mwilliams-cp1.gif)

Title: Re:Good Control Panel Dimensions
Post by: paigeoliver on December 22, 2003, 01:43:28 am

My two player machine has the standard Streetfighter layout on a 25"x6" panel. With everything at least an inch off each side.

The only "cramping issue we have is bumping into Jen, who is usually playing Ms. Pac-Man on the next machine.

Title: Re:Good Control Panel Dimensions
Post by: LoRDDeVO on December 23, 2003, 08:49:53 pm

OSCARCONTROLS - I love your DeMoN MaME Cab its awesome .. I am actually basing my cab deisgn around the demon motif :)  More on that later.... and seeing how hard the design phase is .... make that MUCH later  8)