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Cp Layout, help requested.
bfossett:
I bought the Project Arcade book today, which i must say is fantastic! I am going to follow the Project arcade plans to creat my own mame cab but have run into a problem. I really love smash tv and would love to have 2 8-way sticks as well as the 7 button fighting game layout per player. I am having difficulties fitting all of this as well as a trackball on the 13"x30" available space on the plans. I do not want to expand the size because then it wouldnt fit through my doorway :)
This is where i need the help, any suggestions on how i can get this all to fit? Any help is very much appreciated.
JAZ:
Have swappable or modular panels.
Gameboy.au:
My cabinet's control panel is actually wider than the cabinet itself. The cab will fit through a doorway but only if the control panel is removed.
The entire back panel of my cabinet comes off when undoing 2 locks and then I can reach in and undo to clamps/hinge locks. Because I plan on using MOLEX/quick disconnect plugs, I will be able to quickly unplug the wiring, and unclip the control panel, allowing me to move it when requied.
I have attached a photo of when I first moved it into my garage (can you tell I just moved in?)
krick:
I'm also a big fan of Smash TV. In fact, it's because of that one game that I got involved with this whole hobby at all. I started out trying to buy my own Smash TV machine. After I found out how much they usually sell for, I started researching mame and ended up here.
I thought you might find it useful to know that the spacing between each player's left and right joystick on a full sized (25" monitor) Smash TV machine is 6.5 inches center to center.
I've made a Microsoft Visio 2002 drawing of a Smash TV control panel. Everything is correct except for the distance of the 1 and 2 player start buttons from the top edge. The person who gave me the measurements for the rest of the control panel omitted that measurement...
http://www.3feetunder.com/krick/mame/visio_smash_tv_unfinished.zip
And in case your also a Robotron fan, the spacing between the two joysticks on a Robotron machine is 10 inches center to center.
Here's a thread where I talk about possible 4 joystick (player) layouts and their fitness for playing Smash TV...
http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=16720
I've been fiddling with a design for my control panel trying to incorporate 4 joysticks and 2 trackballs. Keep in mind that it's a work in progress but here's what I've come up with so far. I don't know if this is the design I'll use or not...
I hope some of this helps.
...
Krick
REBIRTH:
Rotatable Panels!!!!!!!! Check out my website for an example of what I did (3 panels which you can rotate around). Even if you don't do that, I think you can still fit it if the items you mentioned are all you are going to have. My 2 player panel has 2 joysticks, each with 6 buttons (not 7 like you plan) and a 3" trackball in the middle. The joysticks are great for two of my favorite games - Robotron and Smash TV. I will admit the 2 joysticks are not in the exact spots as Robotron/Smash - but they aren't off by much and I don't really notice any difference at all. The picture below does seem to show the left joystick way over to the left, but it really isn't that far over... Even if you wanted the sticks in the exact spot where they should be for Smash, I still think you could fit it all on a 13 x 30 - my panels are exactly 12"x30" and all that fits on there with room to spare.
But again, think about rotating... I did it to get a pretty exact replica of the Defender control panel on one of my 3 panels, and then I have a 1 player panel and the 2 player panel. Not that hard to do really. Just a thought.... ;D
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