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Trip:
So now that I have my cabinet picked out and in process of refurbishment, I am going to start looking for a control panel (not really the best woodworker, so I want kit) and controls to go in it.

I am really looking at the Mameroom quad control panel with a customized layout.  

I am thinking of maybe moving the trackball up more and doing all the players in a straight up and down format across the panel.  Anyone with the panel think this is possible or is the angled format better to go with?  I know a lot of people really dislike the angled format, while others love it.

I would also like to try to move the 4 way to somewhere else than the very top center, because that looks very inconvient to try and reach it.

For you 4 player cab owners....  Is the 7 buttons necessary for players 3 and 4 or would it be ok to go with a 4 button setup for the 3/4 players?

I am thinking of going with an Ipac 4 for my controller, do you just parallel up the 4-way with the 1 player 8-way?

I am also going to go with 2 LEDWizs to run LEDs to everything.  Looking at Paradise LED Ball top joysticks and wanting to find a good concave LED button.  I don't like convex at all...   Looking at GGG, looks like it's real hard to get the EI2 and NovaGems, is that the only Concave LED buttons out there or is there another way to get them?  

Probably forgetting some other questions, but I can always post up if I remember some....

Rando:

--- Quote from: Trip on March 12, 2012, 12:45:19 pm ---I am thinking of maybe moving the trackball up more
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If by "up more" you mean closer to the screen area, note that the closer your trackball is to your plexi/monitor the more likely it is that someone will spin the ball quite hard and potentially smack their hand/wrist/fist into whatever is there.

Trip:

--- Quote from: Rando on March 12, 2012, 12:58:04 pm ---If by "up more" you mean closer to the screen area, note that the closer your trackball is to your plexi/monitor the more likely it is that someone will spin the ball quite hard and potentially smack their hand/wrist/fist into whatever is there.

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Yeah, I could see that happening.   :lol

Hoopz:

--- Quote from: Trip on March 12, 2012, 12:45:19 pm ---For you 4 player cab owners....  Is the 7 buttons necessary for players 3 and 4 or would it be ok to go with a 4 button setup for the 3/4 players?

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Seven buttons on P3/P4 is only good for console emulation.  Only a few D&D games used four buttons for P3/P4 so you can get by with just three.  Four is fine if you want to support those D&D games.


--- Quote from: Trip on March 12, 2012, 12:45:19 pm ---I am thinking of going with an Ipac 4 for my controller, do you just parallel up the 4-way with the 1 player 8-way?

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Exactly.

kahlid74:
Four buttons are fine IMO for player 3/4.  I built a few cabs with 6 buttons for Player 3/4 and learned real quickly that no one ever uses those extra buttons.

I also had on my first CP the trackball very close to the top and it really backfired on me since everyone who used it slammed their hand into the glass.  So yeah, don't do that.

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