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yotsuya:

--- Quote from: henbury on June 18, 2012, 11:10:31 pm --- I haven't yet seen someone put in all the effort on a cabinet, and then criticise their own work after it was built because they wish they didn't angle the joysticks on the outside players.


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I'm totally cool with whatever you do with your own machine, but for the record, it HAS come up before. Here's three example of people commenting on their own cabs:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=14230.msg111149#msg111149

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=118037.msg1256589#msg1256589

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=117977.msg1252272#msg1252272

Just sayin', it's not necessarily paigeoliver on a crusade or something...

paigeoliver:
It is a little bit of a personal crusade yes, only because so much time and money gets wasted on redoing angled panels (or never using them) all because the guy who wrote the crapmame website THOUGHT that player 3 and 4 were supposed to be angled, and incorrectly called a cabinet out for not doing it. Everyone reads the crapmame site and incorrectly picks up that little tidbit.

Those 2 sentences on that web page have probably literally cost the community $50,000 in redone control panels and thousands of hours in labor.

I don't want to insult you or your cabinet. I want your friends and children to have a great time playing on your awesome machine and not to think it is weird or crappy because the X-Men don't move properly.

CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: henbury on June 18, 2012, 11:10:31 pm ---In fact look at how many other controls panels are out there with angled joysticks. It's even been profitable for some to produce them commercially. I haven't yet seen someone put in all the effort on a cabinet, and then criticise their own work after it was built because they wish they didn't angle the joysticks on the outside players.

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I think that, over all of the years, we have come up with exactly one commercially-produced arcade cabinet with angled sticks ... and that took years to find.

While paige may be a little over the top with respect to this particular configuration issue, he isn't wrong.

But, at the end of the day, if you and yours are happy playing it, that is what counts.

 :cheers:

BadMouth:

--- Quote from: paigeoliver on June 19, 2012, 01:05:21 am ---Everyone reads the crapmame site and incorrectly picks up that little tidbit.

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....and the newest revision of Saint's book.    :dunno
(joysticks are angled in the example and included plans)

BadMouth:

--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on June 19, 2012, 07:55:45 am ---I think that, over all of the years, we have come up with exactly one commercially-produced arcade cabinet with angled sticks ... and that took years to find.

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The funny part is that it was a 2-player cabinet.  :lol

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