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Please critique my control panel layout
shardian:
--- Quote from: Dervacumen on October 16, 2006, 01:50:30 pm ---I have a two player CP that is 23 3/4", and it is quite cozy for two people. Doubling that to make room for 4 players would be 47 1/2", which is even wider that the 43" you are talking about. In my opinion that's going to suck for the two in the middle. Unless you put a couple of hotties in there, then it's a great idea. ;D
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IMO, and alot of other people on here, 23" panels are not comfortable for 2 players. Especially if the sides of the CP are enclosed by the sides of the cabinet in any way, shape, or form.
BamBam:
If you are right handed, then you may want to consider moving the trackball closer to the front of the panel. This will help alleviate any problems with your right hand hitting the player #2 joystick while spinning the trackball forward in games like Golden Tee etc. Alternatively, you could move the joysticks away from the front of the panel and leave the trackball where it is.
I personally have a 2 player CP and prefer it that way. I find that the size of 4 player CP's over power the cabinet.
Aside from this, your layout looks good.
John
Timoe:
I have a 44" 4-player panel. I love it, though I've yet to play a 4-player game :)
I really built it for two player Total Carnage.
I know that the space between player 3 and 1 is no more uncomfortable than a 23" 2player panel (a la SFII)
Oh and if the players moved much farther apart, their viewing angle of the monitor would suffer.
Brumaz:
not a huge fan of the diagonal button layout. seems a bit of a sqeeze?
dislecksea:
OK, it seems that pretty much everyone says that 4 actual player positions on 43 inches is too much. However, it is fine if what you really want is 2 actual player positions each with 2 joysticks. That might be the best direction for me to go, since I already have the 2 8-way sticks left over from my last build. If I do, should I move P1 and P2 upward so that they are even with P3 and P4 (which are as low as they can get)? Also, Timoe, could you (or anyone else who knows) let me know what a comfortable distance is between the sticks for a 2 joystick single player position?
However, I am wondering, what if I don't go that way and just have a standard 2p layout (plus trackball, trigger joy, spinner)? Won't the CP look kind of big and barren? I mean, it was in fact built to be a 4 player CP (it is a Madden NFL cab).
Re: BamBam's suggestion on increasing the distance between the trackball and Player 2's joystick, can someone do a quick measurement of that distance and let me know how it works for them. I play a little Golden Tee but I have friends who are fanatics.
Thanks for the feedback. So many options!
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