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| jcterzin:
Hello I want to take a parted out racing game and try to turn it into a tabletop arcade. The only problem I see with this is that the gas pedal on the original arcade game may or may not be pressure sensitive for speed. If it is, then I would Ideally like to find some alternative to the pedal so that the player could adjust the speed with their hand. I don't think a spinner would be ideal, who the heck drives a car with a spinner? Any suggestions. |
| BadMouth:
--- Quote from: jcterzin on May 04, 2012, 10:01:35 am ---Hello I want to take a parted out racing game and try to turn it into a tabletop arcade. The only problem I see with this is that the gas pedal on the original arcade game may or may not be pressure sensitive for speed. If it is, then I would Ideally like to find some alternative to the pedal so that the player could adjust the speed with their hand. I don't think a spinner would be ideal, who the heck drives a car with a spinner? Any suggestions. --- End quote --- What racing game? Using original board or a computer running emulators? How about if the control panel has an overhang, and underneath the overhang is a lever similar to the analogue triggers on an xbox 360 controller? There are some PC steering wheels that have analogue paddle shifters that can be used for gas and brake. |
| jcterzin:
--- Quote from: BadMouth on May 04, 2012, 11:17:44 am --- --- Quote from: jcterzin on May 04, 2012, 10:01:35 am ---Hello I want to take a parted out racing game and try to turn it into a tabletop arcade. The only problem I see with this is that the gas pedal on the original arcade game may or may not be pressure sensitive for speed. If it is, then I would Ideally like to find some alternative to the pedal so that the player could adjust the speed with their hand. I don't think a spinner would be ideal, who the heck drives a car with a spinner? Any suggestions. --- End quote --- What racing game? Using original board or a computer running emulators? How about if the control panel has an overhang, and underneath the overhang is a lever similar to the analogue triggers on an xbox 360 controller? There are some PC steering wheels that have analogue paddle shifters that can be used for gas and brake. --- End quote --- game is super-off road and I have the original board and wheels for it. don't think I can use steering wheels with paddle shifters because the wheels don't have a stopper, that is they can spin around indefinitely. |
| BadMouth:
In that case, you need something that uses a potentiometer like the original pedal did. You could eve re-use the one out of the pedal. It will take some custom work and since you're using the original board, the potentiometer will most likely have to rotate the same amount that it does now. If the pedal can be calibrated in the setup menu of the game though, then you might not have to worry about that. You could attach the potentiometer to anything; a lever under the edge as I mentioned earlier, or set up an old hi/lo shifter kind of like a boat throttle Happ sells something like that, but you could build it out of old parts a lot cheaper if you have some skills. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Turbo-Throttle-made-by-Happ-MAME-NEW-lower-price-/320456669695?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4a9cb4b9ff (that item is actually from Divemaster, a member here. http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=47066.0 Very good to deal with. Hmmm, it does have the nitro boost button already built in :) ) If you look for pressure sensetive buttons or other options, the main thing is that they be 0-5k Ohms. |
| BadMouth:
You could rig up one of these to a regular pushbutton, but you'd only use the little part of the travel that goes from 0-5k. (that's probably all the travel of a regular pushbutton anyway) http://www.ebay.com/itm/1pc-50K-ohm-Potentiometer-Audio-Slide-Pot-Resistor-S50K-/390363937773?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5ae380fbed |
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