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[Kruger]

Ooooh, building a Raspberry Pi arcade console is on my to-do list as well.  I built a small one, just basically a box with a joystick and buttons.  With a 15' HDMI cable it can plug it into the TV at the cabin and have fun.  The downside is running the power to the plug as well so there are two wires tethering me to the wall.  But there are a couple of things that I wish to figure out before I really dive in.

• Incorporating a trak-ball and a spinner.  I am thinking the spinner can fit between the two players on the main control.  But the trak-ball would probably want its own panel, so maybe a rotating panel that locks in place and you flip from one to the other as needed.
  
• Incorporating some kind of start screen that displays as the game is loading or before the game starts that identifies the controls for that game.  Which buttons correspond to which action would help.
  
• Figuring a way to flip the joystick to left or right handed.  So for most arcade games I would want a left handed joystick (joystick for left hand, buttons for right).  But for Atari 2600 games, I want the joystick in the right hand and the button from the other player controls.
  
• Figuring a way to use buttons from both players in a single game.  This probably goes with the previous want and is for games like Asteroids that just used buttons, I'd like to replicate that experience instead of using the joystick...