Well it looks like building the larger control panel prototype is on hold for a few days. This morning Annette decided she wanted to do a weekend project of stripping the wallpaper off our bedroom walls. I didn't think it'd be fun, and while not horrible, it does indeed take a long time. Still once it is finally done and painted it will look 200x better.

I did have the chance however to try my new joystick w/ Q-Bert. See, Q-Bert uses a 4 way stick, but rotated 45 degrees. I figured, because my actuator on the bottom of my stick rotates 45 degrees to 8-way, it's basically the same thing as a Q-Bert 4-way stick. It was just a matter of remapping the joystick for that game and voila! It worked! Now I can play Q-Bert as it was actually meant to be played!

Also I decided that while doing the switch from 4-way to 8-way is nice, it is a bit time consuming to switch for every game. Thus I think I'm going to set my 1 player to 8-way and 2nd Player to 4-way. This way you can just switch back and forth depending on the game and really only have to change the actuator when you want to play a 2 person game, which should happen a lot less.

Last night we also had a party (and busted out the Mario Party 4 again), and I had some people try out my crappy control panel prototype. Our friend Andy went nuts on Commando. I guess he used to play it quite a bit back in the day and it looked like he picked up right where he left off. I was impressed, and I guess so was he. I got the impression he really wants me to finish my cab (he only said that about 20 times ;).