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Avoiding a Frankenpanel...
Xiaou2:
--- Quote ---I build arcade cabinets to be enjoyed by me and any of my guests so I build them simple and easy to understand. As a result, I have multiple cabinets which play different game styles.
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Good for you. But, not everyone can be like you. Not everyone can dedicate a room of space to all the game types they love. Not everyone wants to spend time swapping panels either.
--- Quote --- You usually chime in about how it doesn't matter what the guests think and if they can't work a arcade control panel they must be some kind of morons.
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Uhh, No. I pretty much said I could care less about what some internet punks care about, nor do I care if my friends care about what my panel looks like.
Having a bunch of controls on a panel doesnt equate to unplayable or complex. However, having a joystick put at an angle is unplayable, even to an experienced player. Theres a mountain of difference.
Your entitled to your opinions, but dont think your way is the best way nor the only way.
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I concur with the angled joysticks. I found playing games with them to be very unintuitive, but that's just me... and perhaps others.
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--- Quote from: JustMichael on May 03, 2011, 05:45:20 pm ---
--- Quote from: leapinlew on May 02, 2011, 04:42:54 pm ---Just cause it has a tron stick doesn't mean it's a frankenpanel!!! :angry: :angry: :angry:
If you can do it tastefully, it's not a frankenpanel. Check out this panel:
See what I mean? Tasteful is the key.
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Will this control panel could hold all the controls you want, probably but moving it will be a b!+@#. With the control panel attached, the cabinet can only go through very wide hallways and french doors, regular doors are out. If you drive down the highway with the cab upright, you better have it strapped down or it will fly out of the truckbed. The control panel will act like a giant wing. I don't even want to guess at what would happen if a crosswind hit the cabinet going down the road.
On my Mame cabinet I only have 3 admin buttons. One to enter/exit games, one to pause the game and one to reset the game (never used it). Coins/tokens are handle by the coin door.
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Little kids are going to have to jump or use a step ladder to reach the admin buttons. :o
leapinlew:
--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on May 04, 2011, 03:34:32 pm --- Your entitled to your opinions, but dont think your way is the best way nor the only way.
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I don't think my way is the only way, but I do think it's the best way. Isn't that what an opinion is all about?
Also, having a bunch of controls on a control panel = complex.
Donkbaca:
Makes sense, if I didn't think my way was the best way, then I would do things a different way, in which case the different way would basically be the way I did it, which would sort of make it my way. So, yeah, my way is definitely the best way
LLew FTW
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