Posted by Tony C on January 17, 2002 at 00:24:28:
In Reply to: control panel plans for 4 persons? posted by mike toms on January 16, 2002 at 23:21:45:
One of the nice ones I've seen is Brian's Interchangable 4-way panel on display at
http://www.geocities.com/brian_coney/
I used this as a basis for some of my earlier designs:
http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/a/m/amc156/dreampanel.jpg
http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/a/m/amc156/dreampanel101.jpg
Those two were just mock-ups to throw ideas around. It turns out they weren't exactly to scale due to the perspective of the photographs I used.
So right now my current plans add 10" to the width (making it a massive 4 feet wide) and add a seventh button for a Neo-Geo setup for players 1 and 2:
http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/a/m/amc156/dreampanel201.jpg
I am going to do some tweaking with that one to try to squeeze in a 4-way joystick and a couple fire buttons, but I don't want things to get too cramped. I also don't like the position of the spinner right now but it's a work in progress. Anyway I won't be doing that portion of the planning until I have my cabinet selected so I can figure out viewing angles for players 3 and 4.
Hope this helps.