Posted by Havelok on 8, 2001 at 12:28 PM:
In Reply to: You may want to consider.... posted by Mojo2000 on 8, 2001 at 9:53 AM:
Wow thanks for the information. I'm not a great fan of old games from the eighties, so I haven't played some of the titles you mention. My main interests are shooters, fighting games, platform games.. which are all traditional games in terms of controls. My original proyect was a panel with just one stick and 6 buttons. For this I had enought with a PSX pad hack. Now I'm considering the possiblity of building a 2 player control panel. Spiner and trackballs are secodary controls for me. I didn't even know that there are games which use two trackballs or two spinners (or are they for 2 players plays?). I guess you mean 2 players plays, because I don't really know any game that uses 2 trackballs or two spinners for just one player. Well, there's robotron, which uses 2 sticks, doesn't it? The problem with games such as Forgotten Worlds or Irari Warriors is more important for me, since I intend to play those games. You say that they use rotary joysticks? How do these joysticks work? I've seen a Forgotten Worlds cabinet and, if my eyes have not betrayed me, it uses spinners for rotating the character.
This pics are made with Coreldraw. It's not Autocad but it's more than enought for me. These have not exact dimenssions, since I have not checked out the sizes of trackballs and spinners. The designs in Coreldraw were exported to bmp and resized with Photoshop and converted to JPG. The drawings are mere sketches. If you want to see a pic already finished check my original proyect, where I can show you what can be done with Photoshop: http://perso.wanadoo.es/havelok/Blackstar%20Arcade.jpg