What do you have in your Control Panel?

[hellothere]

What joystick. buttons, trackball, etc did you go with?

I'm going with Happ Buttons with Horizontal Microswitches

Either Happ Supers or the Ultimarc 360

Not sure about spinners ot trackballs yet.

[The G-Man]

I went with:

KEYWiz Eco Keyboard Encoder from groovygamegear.com

Horizontal Microswitch from groovygamegear.com, but are Happ made

Ultimarc Mag-Stik Plus Joysticks

3" Happ trackball new from ebay

[stephenp1983]

I have two happs eight way competition sticks, a 4 way jstick, happs 3 inch trackball and happs buttons.

[bkenobi]

2 SNK LS-30 rotary joysticks

Happ horizontal pushbuttons (7 button Neo Geo/SF config)

GP-WizRX-ST (GP-Wiz with built-in rotary encoder)

2x Scorpion3 PS2 light guns

[Creek]

I bought the following from a german webshop (arcadeshop.de).

1x I-Pac4

4x T-Stik

A load of High Quality Pushbuttons, enough for 7 buttons each, plus coin + player start buttons and 4 navigation buttons (Enter, Escape, Page Up, Page Down)

I later bought a Mag-Stik Plus for player 1 from Ultimarc, which is the same model as the T-Stik, only it's modded to switch between 4/8-way from the top.

Here's a couple of pics.

[Brian Hoffman]

I have an 2 player IPAC (Ultramarc)

2 (4/8 way super joysticks) Ball Top Happ ( Purchased @ tornado terrys )

16 buttons and cherry microswitches... Red white and blue (Street fighter theme and config)

2 P1 and P2 buttons

2 coin butttons Orange

Spinner

Hard drive hack

(Works really great and cheap )

[Creek]

Lets see some pics everyone. :]

[bkenobi]

Pics should really go in the sticky thread for "Machines Running GameEx" to keep the site clean!

[Creek]

Pics should really go in the sticky thread for "Machines Running GameEx" to keep the site clean!

"Keep the site clean"?

Listen... if you can't post pics of custom built control panels in a thread about custom built control panels... then I don't see any reason for posting at all. That's a ludicrous restriction...

When I said "lets see some pics", it was implied that the pics should be relevant to this topic.

[Brian Hoffman]

"Keep the site clean"?

Listen... if you can't post pics of custom built control panels in a thread about custom built control panels... then I don't see any reason for posting at all. That's a ludicrous restriction...

When I said "lets see some pics", it was implied that the pics should be relevant to this topic.

Creek,

I dont believe bkenobi post is intended to offend you. I also see no harm in posting pics of cpanels here as well.

There are no restrictions... Other that whats stated in the RULES section.

I do see the point though... It is nice to keep everything together as it make searching for cab ideas easier.

Lets keep it clean guys... and keep posting

Brian Hoffman

[Creek]

Well, I didn't take offense. I was just flabbergasted by someone (anyone) thinking that it wasn't relevant to this topic.

Personally I think there's way too few pics, because when I started out building my cab, I relied on inspiration from pics. Restricting pics _only_ to one thread means that people only will post pics of a full cab, and not specifics like this.

Just my two cents...

[Brian Hoffman]

Well, I didn't take offense. I was just flabbergasted by someone (anyone) thinking that it wasn't relevant to this topic.

Personally I think there's way too few pics, because when I started out building my cab, I relied on inspiration from pics. Restricting pics _only_ to one thread means that people only will post pics of a full cab, and not specifics like this.

Just my two cents...

Moving forward.. Here is one of my cpanels

[jthompson]

2 ultimarc 8-4 way switchable joysticks. (T-stick?)

28 happ pushbuttons with cherry microswitches.

3" happ trackball with light.

Hard drive spinner hack.

Keywiz encoder.

Jay T

[bkenobi]

Sorry if my suggestion was not taken well. My only intent was to try to keep a single thread with pictures of cabinets so a new member wouldn't have to search through tons of threads to find the info they are looking for. I personally think pics of cabinets and parts of cabinets could be kept together, but that was just my suggestion...it's by no means a rule! I love seeing the pictures period, I just was trying to help

Anyway, I definitely think pictures are VERY helpful since it provides ideas on how other people did things. When I started, I found it very difficult to come up with a design since the pictures that were available only showed what they had done, not what they would do again. Basically, a lessons learned blurb.

A couple CP shots as well as my finished cab. Actually, the CP wiring just changed in loo of my new GP-WizRX-ST (a GP-Wiz with a built in rotary encoder).

[Creek]

Sorry if my suggestion was not taken well. My only intent was to try to keep a single thread with pictures of cabinets so a new member wouldn't have to search through tons of threads to find the info they are looking for. I personally think pics of cabinets and parts of cabinets could be kept together, but that was just my suggestion...it's by no means a rule! I love seeing the pictures period, I just was trying to help

Yeah, I can kinda see what you mean by keeping pics together. I just strongly disagree. :]

Instead I would suggest that people link to their controlpanel pics here, from their original "show your cab" post. That way we "keep it clean", keep it relevant, _and_ make it userfriendly for new users. How about that? :]

In fact, I'll go do that right now. (btw in the top right corner of the post, theres a direct link that jumps directly to your pots "Post #15")

And as I said, no offense taken.

2 ultimarc 8-4 way switchable joysticks. (T-stick?)

The Mag-Stik Plus from Ultimarc is modded to be switchable from the top of the cpanel (lift and twist), where the T-Stik can only be switched by flipping a little white switch on the joystick base inside the controlpanel. Not very handy. :]

I currently have a Mag-Stik Plus for player one and T-Stiks for player 2, 3 and 4. They look and feel exactly the same. And most multiplayer games needing a 4-way setting are so old, that you can't play two simultaniously.

[jthompson]

Yeah, I can kinda see what you mean by keeping pics together. I just strongly disagree. :]

Instead I would suggest that people link to their controlpanel pics here, from their original "show your cab" post. That way we "keep it clean", keep it relevant, _and_ make it userfriendly for new users. How about that? :]

In fact, I'll go do that right now. (btw in the top right corner of the post, theres a direct link that jumps directly to your pots "Post #15")

And as I said, no offense taken.

The Mag-Stik Plus from Ultimarc is modded to be switchable from the top of the cpanel (lift and twist), where the T-Stik can only be switched by flipping a little white switch on the joystick base inside the controlpanel. Not very handy. :]

I currently have a Mag-Stik Plus for player one and T-Stiks for player 2, 3 and 4. They look and feel exactly the same. And most multiplayer games needing a 4-way setting are so old, that you can't play two simultaniously.

I guess they are not t-sticks then, I can't remember what they are called. Mine lift and twist as well but I got them before the mag sticks came out. Mine use a more mechanical means ( a spring I believe). The mag stick line replaced whatever mine happen to be.

Jay T

[stephenp1983]

Here is a picture of my control panel: