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Aceldamor:
Been thinking about making a "hybrid" cp. Meaning a rotating cp with the 3rd side being modular for all the crazy other controlls needed.

Seems a little much, but I figured why bother changing out the fighter panel, and my other panel for other types of most played games and just deal with 1 panel that has the modular feature so I can swap out crazy sticks, button configs, steering wheels, 720 stick, ect.

I'm about 50/50 for and against it....just wanted to get some opinions on the idea to help me push one way or the other.

Thanks

REBIRTH:
Count me in on a "Go for it!" vote.  You could have 2 "normal" panels with the normal controls (2 player setup, trackball, spinner, 4 way stick, etc) and then the 3rd modular for all the "non-normal" controls like you say (yoke, steering wheel, etc.).  I have to admit that if I thought of doing it that way, making one of my three panels modular, I probably would have.  It is a bit much, as you say, but to me it is worth it in the end when you can quickly get just about any CP setup you want by spinning the thing and/or swapping a control or two.

Aceldamor:
Rebirth...

Glad you chimed in on this one...I was looking at your plans, and it actually wouldn't be hard to change one of your panels to a modular panel using telenguard's (sp) modular design...

NoOne=NBA=:
Just a thought here, but why leave all those nice controls on the other panels, and then have to buy duplicates of them for the modular panel?

Unique CP's you may want to duplicate on your modular system:

Tron - needs the spinner
Blasteroids - two spinners
Wacko - needs the trackball
Smash TV - needs the 8-ways from the fighter panel
Marble Madness - needs the trackball, unless you want to buy TWO more

I would, and DID, just go modular, to save the hassle of making a rotating panel, not being happy with it, and STILL having controls laying around for a modular system.

The draw of the rotating panels is that it stores the controls for you.
The draw of modular is that it lets you reuse the controls you buy on more than one CP.

pgifford:
Rebirth,

  Your site seems to have a glitch.  This page http://rebirth.dgthompson.com/cpconstruct.html has content from the previous page and also links to itself.  I'm dying to know more about how you built your panel - you have to fix this :)

Thanks,

Paul

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