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Any way to connect Daytona USA wheels and pedals to a PC for a driving setup?
GCS:
Trust me I would love to keep the original stuff in there but that would be to get the real arcade feel and FFB.
Reviewing some of the other threads it seems like FFB would be a bear to get going with the arcade gear already in the cab.
UHID --
Totally confused on this one. I see it comes with several harness choices and I am guessing I would need the 32 wire one? Then those wires attach to the pots on the wheel, shifter, and pedals as well as the buttons on the dashboard. Then those buttons would need to be mapped in the UHID config utility and then in each emulator's settings to get the games working?
I would assume the wires from the harness just solder onto the pots directly
G27 - yes it would be nice to play things like Pole Position, Turbo etc but I think we could make do w/o them in order to get games like Daytona, Cruisin', Outrun, etc
While PC games would be nice or even PS3/XBOX games this needs to be simple and easy for others to use hence the arcade games. Arcade drivers you can walk up sit down and play (just pick your auto/manual, your course etc and off you go) whereas PC/PS3/360 games will require you to level up, configure the car etc etc etc and guests don't want to bother with that like I would.
Thus it won't be as user friendly and thus not get used for parties (which we have a fair bit of)
Thanks
Greg
BadMouth:
--- Quote from: GCS on August 30, 2011, 06:56:56 pm ---UHID --
Totally confused on this one. I see it comes with several harness choices and I am guessing I would need the 32 wire one? Then those wires attach to the pots on the wheel, shifter, and pedals as well as the buttons on the dashboard. Then those buttons would need to be mapped in the UHID config utility and then in each emulator's settings to get the games working?
I would assume the wires from the harness just solder onto the pots directly
--- End quote ---
I didn't even realize he was selling harnesses. :lol
Yeah, pretty much everything gets wired straight to the U-HID and it will report it as whatever you want, but it needs to be configured. (gamepad button, gamepad exis, keyboard button, mouse, whatever.....) You also assume correct that the wires just go directly to the pots. Nothing extra is needed.
--- Quote from: GCS on August 30, 2011, 06:56:56 pm ---G27 - yes it would be nice to play things like Pole Position, Turbo etc but I think we could make do w/o them in order to get games like Daytona, Cruisin', Outrun, etc
While PC games would be nice or even PS3/XBOX games this needs to be simple and easy for others to use hence the arcade games. Arcade drivers you can walk up sit down and play (just pick your auto/manual, your course etc and off you go) whereas PC/PS3/360 games will require you to level up, configure the car etc etc etc and guests don't want to bother with that like I would.
Thus it won't be as user friendly and thus not get used for parties (which we have a fair bit of)
--- End quote ---
The G27 is probably overkill if you're just going to use it for arcade games.
There aren't any arcade games working in emulators that used a 6 speed manual except for ridge racer and it supports paddle shifting.
I also can't think of any 100% working games that require a clutch either, except for SF Rush, but it takes an extremely high end computer to run.
Ridge Racer had a clutch (only a switch, not analogue), but the emulator works properly without it.
My advice would be to buy a much cheaper wheel that only has 2 pedals and mount it behind the original dash like Gbeef did with his G27.
Hacking the arcade pedals to it is easy. Just swap out the pots with ones that match the value of the ones in the PC pedals,
then move the wires from the pots in the PC pedals over to the ones in the arcade machine.
Then hook the arcade buttons and shifter up to a keyboard encoder and you're done.
That way people aren't confused by the 6 speed or extra buttons.
The easiest controls to understand are the original arcade ones, preferably with labels. ;D
Check out how I did my buttons. They're pretty self explanatory, except for people not knowing V.R. is for View Change (sega's wording, not mine)
If you want plug 'n play though, the G27 will have you covered.
GCS:
Well if I went with G27s it would be to play PC games as well (or drop in a PS3).
That would primarily be for me to play as visitors would just want the arcade games for fun factor and ease of play.
The arcade wish list for the cab would be:
California Speed
Outrun
Outrun 2
Chase HQ
Cruisin' USA
Cruisin' World
Cruisin' Exotica
Daytona USA
Daytona 2
Hydrothunder
Crazy Taxi
San Fran series but that doesn't seem likely
Basically things like that.
Still mulling this whole thing over.
Greg
BadMouth:
California Speed -I'm running at on a 3.2Ghz Athlon X2 with xp64, Still has some sound issues and it took a lot of tweaking to get it this far
Outrun -MAME (uses the shifter toggle hack).
Outrun 2006 -PC game, loads of fun but no FFB
Chase HQ - MAME, driver imperfect but playable...shifter hack was just added last week
Cruisin' USA - MAME, needs around 3Ghz dual core to run
Cruisin' World - same as cruisin' usa
Cruisin' Exotica - Not yet emulated
Daytona USA - Model 2 Emulator, runs perfect & has FFB
Daytona 2 - Supermodel Emulator, new version should be out soon and should have support for analogue controls.
Will take some horsepower
Hydrothunder - Arcade version isn't emulated, dreamcast version is ok, but controls don't feel the same
Crazy Taxi - Demul emulator, music craps out after a couple songs, PC version is better although FFB is odd & doesn't feel right
:dunno
GCS:
Well I just bought 2 San Francisco Rush the Rock setups for $150.
One is complete just missing a hard drive (which I will do myself - I hope)
The other needs a cap kit, mainboard and hard drive.
Otherwise they are complete and working.
So for now I guess I'll just have a Rush the Rock twin setup vs. an emulated cab.
Hopefully by the time I am tired of RTR the games will be better emulated and perhaps I can make a conversion then.
Greg
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