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Kaytrim:
Sorry to be a little late to the party and I don't know if this has been said. If you get into bowling games or Golden Tee you are going to want a different place for that 4-way stick. That is a finger jammer for sure.
If you take the pause and exit buttons and move them to the player two side then you can slide the 4-way over out of the way of the trackball
TTFN and Have Fun with the build,
Kaytrim
bluevolume:
--- Quote from: Kaytrim on September 18, 2007, 10:31:12 am ---Sorry to be a little late to the party and I don't know if this has been said. If you get into bowling games or Golden Tee you are going to want a different place for that 4-way stick. That is a finger jammer for sure.
If you take the pause and exit buttons and move them to the player two side then you can slide the 4-way over out of the way of the trackball
TTFN and Have Fun with the build,
Kaytrim
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The 4-way has been a challenge for sure. I was trying to move it so it wasn't above the P1 buttons, short people would have a hard time playing without hitting the buttons with their arm. Can you point me at an example?
Kaytrim:
--- Quote from: bluevolume on September 18, 2007, 10:40:12 am --- I was trying to move it so it wasn't above the P1 buttons, short people would have a hard time playing without hitting the buttons with their arm.
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Interesting point there. Just build a matching step stool. ;)
XyloSesame:
--- Quote from: bluevolume on September 18, 2007, 10:40:12 am ---
--- Quote from: Kaytrim on September 18, 2007, 10:31:12 am ---That is a finger jammer for sure.
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The 4-way has been a challenge for sure. I was trying to move it so it wasn't above the P1 buttons, short people would have a hard time playing without hitting the buttons with their arm. Can you point me at an example?
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I've been struggling with this as well, the dedicated 4-way and spinners above the joys and trackball. I've tried to compare all of the CPs I could find, but am still having trouble. I don't think there is a good answer for us outside of making mock-ups as soon as you have parts and controllers.
I've been using Sketchup to help approximate the "real" layout as I'm slowly accumulating all of my pieces...
bluevolume:
OK, so I decided to take this design into the real world and see how it held up. Me and a couple friends went to our favorite sports bar and I bought a printout of this control panel with me. I actually layed the print down over the Golden Tee that they had there, and it became apparent that the 4-way joystick was not going to work. I'd never really played Golden Tee that much, and to see what some of these guys were doing, I saw very quickly that fingers would get smashed with that joystick there.
It was $5 Yuengling pitchers tonight; so this night worked out well all around. Attached is my design changes that resulted. There is a dotted "V" above the trackball now, this is a marker to show where hands could be flying when playing Golden Tee.
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