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RyoriNoTetsujin:
As always, I've been fantasizing about fitting more playability in a smaller space. Lately I've been thinking about spinners.

Has anyone here ever installed a TurboTwist at or near the oft-argued "7th Button" position? See my crude diagram below for what I mean (S=spinner, natch):

 |----|     123
 | O |      456
 |----|   S

Seems to me that's a pretty good place for it. It doesn't block access to the joy or the buttons, and if you play the spinner left handed, you have access to those buttons as well.  Put a Tron stick to the right of your button array, and you've got a usable Tron setup (and, while not perfect, maybe a dual-joystick setup too?)

Anyway, just curious to see if anyone has installed a spinner in this way and what their thoughts were on how it worked for them.

yotsuya:
I think that would just be too close. Inevitably, it will get in the way at some point.

Jumpman64:
One concern would be if you play Defender since that is your optimal reverse button location.

DaveMMR:
You should try it out on some scrap wood but a spinner is much larger than the size of a button so I can't imagine it'll fit it that exact position at all without blocking the buttons.

RyoriNoTetsujin:
Sorry, I thought I was clear I didn't necessarily mean exactly at that position:


--- Quote from: RyoriNoTetsujin on April 02, 2013, 04:52:01 pm ---Has anyone here ever installed a TurboTwist at or near the oft-argued "7th Button" position?
--- End quote ---

Like yotsuya and DaveMMR said, it is probably too big for that specific spot, but I think with some fine tuning it could be functional, compact, comfortable, and not block the rest of the controls. I'm not suggesting this is something that'll fall perfectly in line with a SlagCoin template... but I'm thinking it can be done without too much deviation from one.

I'm just playing around with what appears to be a new-ish idea.  I think we can all agree there's a thin line between "reasonably broad functionality" and "fugly frankenpanel."  I'm more concerned about crossing over into that territory than I am about making this work.

I don't have a TurboTwist on-hand yet, but it definitely seems worth some prototyping if no one has already tried it...

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