[SomewhatLost666]

I took some pics, but they came out crappy (I appear to be photographically disabled) , and its still under construction anyway... its basically arcadecab.com plans with some minor tweaks... nothing special really...
but now I am starting to think about my CP, and I am facing a bit of a dilemma, as this will be a Hyperspin cabinet, the amount of games is endless, and the amount of different controller options is also endless... but I don't like crowded/busy/frankenpanels/whatever you want to call them CP's... I like it simple, just a couple of sticks & buttons... but that greatly limits the games you can play...

so, I had an idea....
just put a 'hot swap/blind mate' style connector on the CP, and have a couple different CP's set up with different controls... seems to be the best of both worlds?
and have some sort of hook/pin setup to grab/hold the CP while its in use...

only problem is I am up to 144 pins so far...

any expert see if I am missing anything?
do players 3 & 4 really need 8 buttons? for that matter do players 1 & 2 really need 8 buttons (or 2 joy's each + 4 buttons?)

also I would like anyone's professional opinion, am I insane? is this a horrible idea? or is this a reasonable plan? or I guess there is always the possibility that I am insane, but its still a reasonably good plan...