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Yet another...look at my CP layout
leapinlew:
Although this doesn't address the smashTV aspect - an option would be to use your existing CP and hang off some USB controllers. I realize the drawbacks, but thought I'd mention it in case you hadn't thought of it.
Ok - so you wanted to know about your joystick layout. It all looks good, but I have a concern regarding the angling of the joystick. Which direction will be up? Some people want to push towards the monitor to be up while others want to go with the angle of the buttons. If it were mine, I'd probably make it as wide as I had to and keep the controls straight on to the monitor. Thats me though, I prefer being head on to the monitor.
BamBam:
I agree with everyone on the angling of the joysticks. There may be a problem with the position of the joystick immediately to the right of the trackball. I mounted my this close and constantly hit my right hand on the right joystick while playing trackball games.
I plan to mount my trackball closer to the front of the CP to alleviate this problem.
John
rbarr110:
--- Quote from: leapinlew on July 31, 2006, 06:43:59 pm ---Although this doesn't address the smashTV aspect - an option would be to use your existing CP and hang off some USB controllers. I realize the drawbacks, but thought I'd mention it in case you hadn't thought of it.
Ok - so you wanted to know about your joystick layout. It all looks good, but I have a concern regarding the angling of the joystick. Which direction will be up? Some people want to push towards the monitor to be up while others want to go with the angle of the buttons. If it were mine, I'd probably make it as wide as I had to and keep the controls straight on to the monitor. Thats me though, I prefer being head on to the monitor.
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I agree with wanting to be "square" with the monitor, however looking at alot of 4p arcade games, 3 and 4 are next to never square with the screen, but square with the direction you are standing. I think, that with the angles cut on the CP, you have to stand/sit square with the joysticks. I think that my current layout will be cramped with 4 players forcing P1 and P2 to not stand square with the joystick....hmmm....
Examples:
leapinlew:
I don't know if it's fair to look at existing arcade CP's. When they built them, they had space limitations to deal with and only had to build it for 1 game. I'm sure if you reduced the amount of games your arcade cabinet played to just a single game - this would be real easy to do.
In a sense, your reinventing the wheel here. How about draft up a couple CP mockups with no regard to size and only be concerned with comfort and then decide what our options are. :)
DaveMMR:
--- Quote from: rbarr110 on July 31, 2006, 07:00:28 pm ---
--- Quote from: leapinlew on July 31, 2006, 06:43:59 pm ---Although this doesn't address the smashTV aspect - an option would be to use your existing CP and hang off some USB controllers. I realize the drawbacks, but thought I'd mention it in case you hadn't thought of it.
Ok - so you wanted to know about your joystick layout. It all looks good, but I have a concern regarding the angling of the joystick. Which direction will be up? Some people want to push towards the monitor to be up while others want to go with the angle of the buttons. If it were mine, I'd probably make it as wide as I had to and keep the controls straight on to the monitor. Thats me though, I prefer being head on to the monitor.
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I agree with wanting to be "square" with the monitor, however looking at alot of 4p arcade games, 3 and 4 are next to never square with the screen, but square with the direction you are standing. I think, that with the angles cut on the CP, you have to stand/sit square with the joysticks. I think that my current layout will be cramped with 4 players forcing P1 and P2 to not stand square with the joystick....hmmm....
Examples:
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Here's the kicker with those layouts: they're for dedicated 4-player games on 4-player cabinets. Often, you'll see one player using the awkwardly positioned joystick because he likes Thor or Lisa. You wouldn't want to play a one or two player game on those, especially a fighter.
Maybe you could make a dedicated 4-player cabinet. Or just make a dedicated 4-player control panel that'd you'd whip out when company's coming. I know you said it's a major PITA, but it'll only be for those special occassions - like when you break out the good silverware. Leave off the odds and ends (trackball, 4 way, etc.) and just have 4 supers with three or four buttons each. Meanwhile, it looks like have plenty of real state on your current CP to add a second joystick for each player for those Smash TV fixes.
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