Challange! No prize!

[Generic Eric]

Challange:
The most compact, fully enclosed rotating 3 panel control panel.

Looking for ideas for a compact, fully enclosed rotating 3 panel control panel for a "smaller" cabinet, something like a two player cabinet like Joust, Centipede or Pac.  Reason being that I have some co workers interested in the idea of an arcade machine(which was even easier with the recent MaximumPC article,) but they don't have much room in there dwellings.  Not to mention, its a worthy project, provided you are interested in the rotating control panel.

Like I said, looking for ideas.

[paigeoliver]

Challange:
The most compact, fully enclosed rotating 3 panel control panel.

Looking for ideas for a compact, fully enclosed rotating 3 panel control panel for a "smaller" cabinet, something like a two player cabinet like Joust, Centipede or Pac.  Reason being that I have some co workers interested in the idea of an arcade machine(which was even easier with the recent MaximumPC article,) but they don't have much room in there dwellings.  Not to mention, its a worthy project, provided you are interested in the rotating control panel.

Like I said, looking for ideas.

An unmodified Pac cab would have to be a 4 panel job with nothing but button-only layouts, as the control panel angle is 90 degrees, and the clearance between panel and monitor is VERY right (not to mention the fact that the stock panel also overlaps the glass).

Of course, if you used a horizontal monitor, and got new glass, then you could mount the monitor further back in the cabinet and give yourself a bit more room to work with. That would also make it possible to do a 3 panel job instead, with a Pac layout, a streetfighter layout, and like an Asteroids layout. Clearances would be too tight to put any sticks, spinners or balls on the 3rd panel.

A joust would probably be a lot easier, although there would be no way to make the panel look original.

I have kind of tossed around the idea of doing a "slide in, and then rotate and slide back out" panel on my Defender cabinet, allowing me to do the all important Q*Bert panel, and MAYBE a trackball/Asteroids panel as well, in addition to the stock Defender panel. That would be nice, as it would allow me to use up all my NOS Willis overlays at once. =)

I guess I just realized that would qualify for what you are talking about.

[JamesS]

Rebirth I think has the smallest triangle for a rotating panel.
And has an awesome explanation.

http://www.100megsfree.com/smm/mame/

[Generic Eric]

Rebirth I think has the smallest triangle for a rotating panel.
And has an awesome explanation.

http://www.100megsfree.com/smm/mame/

Indeed! It is awsome.  I have the lazy susan pieces for when I get to that stage.

[TheTick]

Rebirth I think has the smallest triangle for a rotating panel.
And has an awesome explanation.

http://www.100megsfree.com/smm/mame/

I wonder if you can get the new gamecab star wars yoke mounted low enough in that to still permit rotating and not block the mounting of controls on the other two panels?

[Generic Eric]

Rebirth I think has the smallest triangle for a rotating panel.
And has an awesome explanation.

http://www.100megsfree.com/smm/mame/

I wonder if you can get the new gamecab star wars yoke mounted low enough in that to still permit rotating and not block the mounting of controls on the other two panels?

Dunno.  1UP has a real yoke on his, but it is more of a "cap" for the control panel, not one of them.  As far as the gamecab yoke, it looks entierly too big.  I think you would have to sink it into the cp.

[TheTick]

There was mention of an alternate, shorter base. I was just wondering if the yoke itself is too tall. It Looks like it is, unless you increase the size of the control panel.

[paigeoliver]

You can probably remove the gamecab.com yoke from it's base if you try?

[spidermonkey]

I like the way Paige thinks. The first three words that came to mind when I saw that monstrosity of a base is HACK HACK HACK !  After all its human nature for a BYOAC'er to take stuff apart and see what makes it tick, make the neccesary adjustments/improvements and then post our accomplishments so others can benefit.  

"BYOAC"  "Book smart engineers ain't got nothin on us !"