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Please review my CP design
steveh:
I am putting together a 4 player arcade machine. the 2 center controllers, are u360's the outside controllers are 8 way happs.
what admin buttons do i really need? i figure exit game, pause, Save game(do i need this for mame, i guess i could use it for other emulators tho. ) what else do i need?
i am tying to keep the setup as non bulky as possible. I figure ill add a spinner at some point probably above player 2, but thats a future upgrade.
Green Giant:
So far it looks good for the most part. Are those player buttons about the setup, what about coin buttons?
You might want to rethink the shape of the panel. It looks like a wing right now. You may want to curve the front and pull down the trackball and player 1&2 controls. This will give some space between the trackball and monitor for games like golden tee, and it will define some difference in player 1&2 and player 3&4. Take a look at all the examples. There are some good examples of 4player panels and some really bad examples.
unclet:
I curved my 4-player control panel a bit in the front. This allowed for more room for the trackball as well as allowing me to add a 4-way joystick on top there. The curves also allowed me to put pinball buttons on the sides for me to play Visual Pinball games.
jcoleman:
Since ravamping a 4-player CP (from a Blitz conversion that was born as Capt. America & The Avengers), I have been a fan of angling the 3rd and 4th player sticks/buttons toward center. Mine are toed in 30 degrees. If you assume that the players will move more around the end of the CP rather than stand in front (there's really not room on a 39-inch panel to do so), 25-30 degrees makes a lot of sense. My advices (as usual) is to build a mockup and have 3 friends crowd around it with you.
Coleman
steveh:
THX uncle. I think i might go with your route. do you have dimensions of the cp so i can try to mask the size and see how it works for me? I like the idea of having the pinball buttons. I put them on my 2 player mockup, but never even thought about it on the 4 player setup. and that is something i want to be able to do.
I have a 4'X2' peice of mdf i am using for the cp.
also what extra buttons should i have for admin buttons.
I dont want to angle the joysticks i would like the ability to play 2 player smash tv, and other games with similar control's but angeling the buttons is not a bad idea.
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