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Opinions needed...."hybrid" cp
menace:
I say go for it--That's how I did mine and I'm very happy with the results. Panel 1 has 8-way rotaries with 6 button layout and 1 4-way, panel 2 has the tron stick, spinner, trackball and panel 3 is the modular one that accomodates 2 360 wheels with pedals and the star wars yoke (and hopefully soon the spy hunter control as well)
Its great to be able to play games on native feeling (if not truly native) controls.
snekse:
--- Quote from: menace on July 13, 2004, 06:41:09 am ---I say go for it--That's how I did mine and I'm very happy with the results.
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Menace,
Your CP sounds pretty sweet. Any pics?
REBIRTH:
--- Quote from: pgifford on July 12, 2004, 05:04:56 pm ---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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I know, I am in the process of building the website now and that page you are looking at is where I last left off... from the main page you can still see my old website which has a few more pictures that may help. I am also in the middle of making detailed plans that will be put on the website, that people will be able to download for free if they want. I should just concentrate on one thing or the other and get one done.
As for all the people that have posted that roating is much more complex - I agree that it is more complex than a regular panel, and more costly since you are doubling up on some controls, but it isn't that complex really. When I built mine I hadn't found 1Up's site yet (or his site wasn't built yet), so I was doing it on my own without anyone else to copy (I now know there were a couple of other people that had already done it too, which I also hadn't found). I also am rotating my monitor, and had plenty of people to copy from and ask for tips. Rotating the monitor was much more complex than the CP panels. It ended up being as "easy" as cutting two triangles for the axis, attaching 3 CP's to the triangles, a lazy susan on either side and I was done. After planning it out it may have taken me at most 8 hours to build it (with the controls installed) - not bad at all I think.
menace:
control panel #3 is still under construction ;D (damn you working control panel #1 luring me into game playing instead of building...) But I'll post pics when she's all together.
telengard:
--- Quote from: Aceldamor on July 12, 2004, 04:26:46 pm ---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
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Hey Aceldamor,
I guess if you have 2 types of games you play *a lot* then that setup would be good. The games you tend to not play as much could be setup on the modular part. 1 fixed panel w/ single centered joy, 2nd fixed 2 joys maybe? I have no particular control type game I play (i.e. fighters) so the rotating + modular wouldn't be something I'd need. It takes so little time to swap stuff around in mine I don't think it matters.
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