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NiN^_^NiN:
Nice project I was suggesting the same tommy turbo to the guy who recently made a nano ridge racer as the tommy turbo just seems so suited for outrun :)

Now Thinking about how you can fit a laptop into this device I had a few different idea's previously

1) Stick a mini ps1 into the unit and run a emulator on the ps1 now I don't know if it has mame but I know it had Sega Master system emulator and that had outrun although not as good as the arcade version.

2) Use a laptop as a base for the tommy turbo have that ontop of the laptop in it's own box and that will give you the extra lift to play easier and also allow you to use the extra size and start at the front of the shifter all the way to the back of the tommy turbo unit. Then you can run mame and interface all the car games.

3) Use a N64 the motherboard is small and you can rewire the cart to be in the back. Then you can use a Ultra racer controller to interface with the tommy turbo http://www.nesrepairshop.com/online_shopping/index.php?productID=558

Crusin the world on n64 is great fun :)

4) Use one of those plug and play racing games like VR502 Carl Edwards Racing but of course that is one game and it's nes quality.

Don't forget that there isn't many mame games that use the Hi-Low shifter there are a few but for a small system like this a laptop unless it's free or really cheap might now be the best option for a desktop racing game.

You are quite lucky to find a tommy turbo so cheap i've been looking for a while and haven't been able to find one that wasn't $70 or so

There are bound to be more options than i've listed but these are the ones I know that will work with a steering wheel input and one's like the gp2x or dingo I am unsure if you can use a steering wheel with I would assume the actual emulator would need to be modified to use an external controller

djlins:
Hi Nin, thanks for that,

I am being very finnicky and particular about this.

I originally wanted it to be a laptops guts so that it could be charged up and run from the 11V battery and then need no power cables hooked up. That way when you look at it you may really believe that it is the original (battery operated) toy, until it is turned on and you see the MAME menu booting up.
Unfortunately the laptop motherboards are just not going to fit so I have resided to the fact that I will need a Nano ITX board running off the mains, but I would still like it to have as little as possible modified on the outside if I can help it so anyone looking at it would make the first comment:
     I used to have one of them
Where I can then step in and show them just how cool this one is.

Aaanyways, about the throttle and controls, yes I have pulled the thing apart and studied the original throttle stick and I would like to tie that up to an analogue throttle, so if I was to butcher something like an XBox controller then forward is like a right trigger and backwards is like the left trigger.

The actual throttle stick itself runs hollow up one side of it so I also want to drill into the left and right at the top and set up a couple of buttons so I have things like a turbo boost and handbrake there if I need it.

Other buttons may go onto the main dash behind the steering wheel but I dont want to change the look of it too much if I can help it.

But yeah,
I think Nano then.

Cheers.

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