Could you make a worst control panel?

Leftys Unite!

For the record as a Southpaw; I use my left hand on the joystick and this setup would destroy me! I have gotten used to playing with arms crossed for some games but those are way too far apart and ugly. If I were rich i would buy it and put it out of its misery!
 
For the record as a Southpaw; I use my left hand on the joystick and this setup would destroy me! I have gotten used to playing with arms crossed for some games but those are way too far apart and ugly. If I were rich i would buy it and put it out of its misery!

It may be worth putting out of it's misery even if your not. :rolleyes:
 
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http://edmonton.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and...-6048-games-in-One-Machine-W0QQAdIdZ269511327

Built for lefty's(?) and look at the button layout. What are some people thinking? At least the price is right!?!

I've attached the pic from the ad for posterity.

And in answer to the thread title: Oh, yes. I could build a MUCH worse control panel than that. At least that guy is able to line things up. It may not be a good layout, but at least it's straight. And if you like to use your left hand on the buttons, it's actually possible to use it.

A much worse panel would be to put the buttons in a circle around the joystick - with the first button being directly above the joystick. That would be MUCH worse that this thing. If you were careful with the mapping, you'd probably make it physically impossible to do combos in fighting games (as opposed to just stupidly hard).

Another bad panel idea would be to use really small buttons, like the cheap panel-mount ones you find at Radio Shack. Bonus points if they have a really stiff spring in them. The 'advantage' here is that by using small buttons, you can put them all really close together, so that you can't possibly figure out what you are pressing without looking at it.

So yea, I could make a worse control panel.
 

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good lord that ranks up there..

check these out if you get some time, finny as hell

http://wickedretarded.com/~crapmame/1.html

pac-matt is my favorite so far lol
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Heh, you beat me to it cadillacman :) I was posting pics from there too. Looks like they don't inline on other sites though, so I just deleted it. You definitely gotta go thru the site and read the guys commentary on each cab. Makes it that much funnier :D
 
from: http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/bishopofbattle/

Bishop of Battle:

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Worst. Configuration. Ever.

It all makes sense now. The trick isn't in the game itself, it's the machine's controls! First off, you have a gun, which would be fine and dandy if it wasn't anchored to the machine. You can't lift it up, you have to angle it up at the screen. And I have to say, it's a pretty shitty looking gun. If a classic Star Trek phaser took a shit and then that shit magically mated with an old muffler and their offspring then vomited into a plastic mold, you'd have something slightly better than the gun that The Bishop of Battle provides. As if that's not bad enough, you have a KNOB. That's great for moving left and right, but how the hell was he making his character move up and down too? Oh, maybe the secret of moving up and down lies within one of the four multi-colored tiny square buttons that reside above the knob! They don't show it in the movie, but I'm pretty sure there was a button on the back of the machine too that you had to have a friend press for you whenever you wanted to duck.
 
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