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Title: Standard button/joystick placing distance
Post by: Don on December 20, 2009, 04:41:47 pm

Hi all i'm new here,
I'm also new to the arcade scene and am looking for a little bit of guidance! I picked up an old nondescript arcade cabinet that i'm looking to turn into a mame cabinet.

The old control panel was a 3-button layout and the one i'm going to make is a 6-button layout with player 1 and 2 start buttons. I was just wondering what are the standard distances:
a) between buttons and,
b) between the joystick and the buttons?
The control panel size is 54 x 5.5cm - so not a huge amount of room to work with.

Thanks!

Title: Re: Standard button/joystick placing distance
Post by: Bobulus on December 20, 2009, 04:52:41 pm

Slagcoin has some nice details. I printed out an 8-button layout I liked, and use it to make the marks on the wood that I used to drill the holes. Nice and easy.

http://www.slagcoin.com/joystick/layout.html (http://www.slagcoin.com/joystick/layout.html)

Title: Re: Standard button/joystick placing distance
Post by: Don on December 20, 2009, 09:48:34 pm

Wow that site is amazing thanks!  ;D

Title: Re: Standard button/joystick placing distance
Post by: cnsf on December 21, 2009, 10:10:09 am

Feel free to download my Visio template from http://www.notrica.com/arcade (http://www.notrica.com/arcade)

The layout works really well for me.

Title: Re: Standard button/joystick placing distance
Post by: severdhed on December 23, 2009, 04:15:58 pm

i always liked to make my own layouts, i try to keep the button centers 1.5" apart, and at least 3" between joystick hole and button hole (at center)