Posted by robert mcelwee on 9, 2001 at 1:55 PM:
I'm not expecting much response from this but I thought I would ask...
OK, I know this is a really ugly drawing (spent a whole 3 minutes in MS-Paint slapping this together) but I wanted to get some feedback before I started drilling into the wood. In the picture you will see a panel with:
1 - coin 1
2 - start 1
3 - pause
4 - start 2
5 - coin 2
a - button
4way - 4 way happs super
spinner - fultra spinner
b - button
c - button
track - happs 2.25" trackball
d - button
e - button
top button - currently a happs topfire joystick (8 way)
My current plans use this configuration for these games:
tron - spinner and top button
centipede - b and track
vertical shooters and donkey kong - 4way, b and c
omega race - spinner, d and e
ms-pac - a (speed cheat) and 4way
Are there any games that you guys can think of that will be a pain in the butt to play with this control panel set up on a vertical monitor? I would really hate to finish up the panel and then figure out "Hey, I can't play mspacman" or something like that. I will also have a steering wheel panel, a spyhunter panel, an LS-30 panel, and a star wars panel so it isn't necessary to make these games easy to play on here. Oh, I have a machine with a horizontal monitor 5 feet away from this one so there is no need for neo fighters, robotron, other horizontal games, etc to be played on here.