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If you could change one thing for your control panel what would you change?

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Kman-Sweden:
My spinner is placed to high up on the CP. Can't use the 7" steering wheel 'cause it hits my admin panel/monitor.
Also have 8 buttons for each player, 6 would have been enough.

RobotronNut:
the frankenpanel is aging very well.
a few things i'd change if i were starting from scratch today:

(1) i'm still firmly committed to having 2 round-restricted 8-ways and 1 diamond-restricted 4-way. i've been thru many 4-ways, including an original rubber-grommet wico leaf, and my top choice today is a U360 (used as a dedicated 4-way, diamond-restricted). for 8-ways, my modified P360's are absolute perfection, but i suspect you can do just as well nowadays with round-restricted U360's (although i've never tried it myself).

(2) replace the tornado spinner with an apache blackhawk for discs of tron. (i do plan to get around to this one of these years...)

(3) replace my rotary joystick with a second trigger stick, for tank games. i'm not as fond of rotary games as i thought i was when i was designing my panel. tanks games play fine with a trigger stick in the right hand and any 8-way in the left hand, but it's just cooler to have 2 trigger sticks. might consider making one of the trigger sticks analog.

gatordad:

--- Quote from: brock.sampson on February 10, 2010, 08:49:37 am ---I would move my spinner farther to the 1p side and cut down on the admin buttons.  I've jammed my fingers a few times on a hard game of golden tee.

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Me too........
never place your spinner on top of your trackball, off set it.

versapak:
I was a strong advocate of angled joysticks for the corner players on a 4 player panel, and when I built my cabinet I tested it out with several people and we all agreed that it worked great.

Never again though. I can't stand it now. I don't know what changed, but now I can't play from those positions without fighting with the angle of the sticks. Also, it is very rare that we have 4 players at the cab, and you can't even use the corner sticks for Smash TV or Total Carnage. :(






Nataq:
Replace my omistick by a spinner. The omnistick is a 4-way compatible joystick that some say is very good. I just find that my competition plays nice with old games and I dont use my 4-way at all. A spinner would have been better. I might just replace it later. Problem with spinner is that they are expensive. 10X price of a regular joystick.

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