I was going through some of my old stuff which has been gathered over the years and found I now have 3 Force Feedback wheels for the PC,
1 x MS Sidewinder, 1 x Logitech Formula force GP and 1 x Guillemot Force Feedback Wheel, I need to get a psu for the Guillemot but probably have something in the 19V range at work I can use. I had a quick check of them and found that other then the guillemot I am likely to run into problems if running XP64 or even 32bit with sP3. This means that they are not going to work on any of my existing setups. Now I was planning on making a full sized arcade machine for my next project but I want to do something with these wheels.
I have a bunch of computer components available, and I have a couple of Projectors that I may be able to use. I don't have room for a full sized sit down machine and have never really liked standing to drive (It just doesn't feel right). So I guess I need to make some sort panel that I can just pull up in front of the sofa and play. Ideally this will want to contain the PC and I can then either output from the projector onto a screen (I probably have a 5ft throw so should be able to get to about 60" with it. Or I could output via HDMI to a 42" LCD.
So my questions are,
Has anyone done anything similar? If not has anyone got any ideas rolling around as to shape/structure
What emulators support force feedback and what specs are required to get the most out of them.
Is racermame worth getting for mame racing games?
http://racermame.altervista.org/ (Is it any better then just plain old vanilla mame)?
I won't actually get started on this in any manner (Other then configuring a PC etc) before October as am heading on holiday next month but would like any ideas people have.