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1UP:
The panel will have to be fairly large, especially with a trackball. You're basically making a 4-player panel in that case.
I would use a layout similar to the above, and put the trackball in the middle.
shmokes:
Bah....don't listen to these detractors :P
I hate to tip my hand before my cab is finished, but since you asked here's one of my panels. It's 26 1/4" wide and just shy of 12" deep. Not too big by most standards. The joysticks on the left are Happ mechanical rotaries. Of course, this panel only has four buttons per stick, cos I've got another panel for fighting games, but I could have fit six buttons per player pretty easily.
This picture really doesn't do the panel justice, by the way. It's laminated with brushed aluminum and looks MUCH MUCH nicer in person.
shmokes:
Here's the Visio layout. I didn't know how to save it as a JPEG and keep the gridlines. Also, it seems to have cut out the blank space around the edges. The original Visio file has everything in there and I can give it to you if you're interested. In the normal Visio file the trackball and 1Player/2Player buttons do not butt up against the edge of the control panel. There is at least an inch of space on all sides.
Anyway, I put in a six-button layout in this one to show it's feasibility.
Kremmit:
Model it after a Smash TV panel. Put 6 buttons between each set of two sticks. Use a Happ Mechanical Rotary for each player's right hand stick, and a Happ Super, Competition or P360 for the left hands. If you decide to go for a spinner, put it somewhere above the sticks/buttons. There's a small footprint spinner available that can fit just about anywhere. (Slikstik Tornado?)
Then, either make it a wide panel and put the trackball in the middle, or make it a deep panel and put the trackball above the sticks.
Or do swapable panels or a modular system.
eb:
Laminated with brushed aluminium? How does one do that? Or is it just glued down?
Either way there better be a tutorial at some point, it's a damn sharp looking control panel ;D
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