Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: wallyworld on July 21, 2005, 03:15:49 am
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Hi, I'm looking for advice on control panel layouts I designed.
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Consider swapping the 3" trackball and 4-way E-stick positions. This give more symmetry for marble madness and puts the 4-way front and center for Pac-Man, etc. (Worse for golden tee).
Not sure how different size trackball will affect 2-p Marble M. . .
Hopefully others will be more helpful.
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I like your thinking there. I'll see if I can make that work. My guess is that that 4-way stick is going to get the most use (compared to the spinner and trackballs), so it really should be centered up more.
Thanks for the input! Anyone else?
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space-permitting, also plan to include analog joystick on this panel to play Tron, and most other analog joystick games.
Tron doesn't use an analog stick.
It's a modified 4-way top-fire, that will barely hit the diagonals.
The restrictor on it keeps it from acting as a TRUE 8-way, which prevents zig-zagging in the lightcycle stage.
With the exception of a 49-way, with a GGG adapter, Tron will not play well with any other single stick.
You can program a 4-way, and an 8-way to control the game simultaneously however.
That will let you pick which stick to use on which stage, allowing 4-way only in the lightcycles, and 8-way in the other stages.
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2 cents worth:
From what you are showing on the 4 ply panel,
dont put items smack up against the wood
sides that will be underneath... meaning your buttons up on top...
make sure they have a LITTLE more clearance than
a 'close fit'