Out of nowhere I had the urge to get a 2-player metal control panel from a Japanese-style arcade cabinet. I think I got a good deal on mine: $130 shipped from Japan, with two Sanwa levers, eight action buttons, two start buttons, and two button plugs included. That's probably about the price I'd have to pay for a high-quality repro from Arcade Art Shop shipping from Britain, and those are just the bare panels with overlays. In the future, though, I think the mountings on the repro panels allow for a greater variety of sticks,
This video gave me the idea of making a box for the panel, and that you don't necessarily need to have an arcade cab to use it. Then this video gave me other ideas. And then I thought, why not modular? I got to thinking:
- Ideally I'd be able to have a box for the control panel now and use it like any other bespoke arcade joystick setup to put on a table or maybe your lap, and then connect it back to the cab when I want to play on the cab.
- Entire should be easier to assemble and disassemble to fit through doorways.
- Even just the base and the control panel is a good thing to have; we can worry about the monitor later.
- Should be able to swap out different panels for different layouts (e.g. one-player games on a 4-way stick on a single-player panel)
- If I don't want to use the arcade panel I should be able to remove that part and just use commercial sticks... maybe with clamps?
- Auxillary buttons could go... somewhere else
- Monitor should be easily rotatable
- By keeping it simple (i.e. no cutouts to keep the metal panel flush), you can switch between the curved Sega panels and square Vewlix panels. Plus, zero chance your arm gets pinched by any gaps between the metal panel and any cutout
- Blender is a free alternative to Sketchup
Info Dump:
Using the Sega Saturn Virtua Stick Pro as inspiration, matching the dimensions should be width: 23 cm and depth: 13 cm.
Vewlix panels are 68.0W x 14.4D cms
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