![]() I absolutely guarantee that back in the 80's, when they were developing Gauntlet they tried the joysticks at an angle and realized it was a terrible mistake and instead put them in without an angle.Īlso if you want even more proof of the mistake in practice, if you search through BYOAC forums () long enough you will come across some people that made 4 player cabinets, did not think this part through and did it wrong and once they played it they realized it was not correct at all and ended up changing their control panel. ALL of them have the joysticks oriented the same as the middle 2 players. Gauntlet, all of the Konami 4 player games (TMNT, Simpsons, Sunset Riders), etc. It will get confusing really quick.ĭo you want absolute proof that I am right? Look no further than original arcade 4 player control panels. For example for P3 to move right, he will have to move his joystick down (toward P1) and to the right. ![]() The reason this is a bad idea is because when P3 and P4 stand there if they want their character to move to the right or left on the screen, they will have to move their joystick at a 45 degree angle, relative to the screen. It doesn't matter how much shoulder room players have. They should ALWAYS be rotated the same as P1 and P2. Cam lock system for easy assembly and blind joystick mounting hardware (no bolts on top panel) Plexiglass control panel panel. Spoiler: It's Dungeons and Dragons themed.No offense but you are absolutely wrong about orienting p3 and p4 diagonal up. Later, when the cabinet is finished I'll post pictures. I've already done the player 3 joystick and everything came out great. I also looked online to see if someone had maybe created a 3D print file for some kind of offset mod for the joystick, but I didn't find anything like that. ![]() I had another thought that perhaps I could make a small metal plate that offset the circuit board on the bottom of the joystick, but I was more confident in my woodworking skills than my metalworking skills (plus I already had the tools). Add your own personal flair by customizing colors and graphics. I was fairly confident in my woodworking skills to do it for the two joysticks. Custom Arcade Systems We offer a complete line of arcade cabinet styles. I've routed out the control panel once already to make clearance for my spinner.There was no way I was going to be able to simply adjust the mapping to make that work at a 45 degree angle. ![]() Below are pictures for the frame mount and the shelf mount cabinet plans. The items not highlighted are for positional placement and are labeled as such. The items highlighted below in pink are for blocking and are on the drawing to assist with the assembly. One of my favorite games in the arcade is Gauntlet Legends, which uses 49-way joysticks. The 4 player KONAMI cabinet does not have any dados or rabbets as drawn on the plans.I was going to be fighting against that if I simply mapped them. I know that the 360 joysticks in analog mode are supported by MAME which can turn them into 4 and 8 way on the fly and I wanted that functionality.I did it this way instead of remapping for a couple of reasons: Thanks for all your help guys! So I went ahead and made the executive decision to route the bottom of the cabinet to angle the 3 and 4 player joysticks.
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