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Mame hacks that make driving games play better with mouse/spinner/360wheel
baritonomarchetto:
With minimal-to-no tweaking you could successfully use the genuine arcade encoder on your cabinet as well, without the need for additional hardware other than arduino.
The mouse hack is obsolete nowadays
Marcoqwerty:
--- Quote from: geecab on February 21, 2017, 06:54:07 pm ---Cool, thanks for the pics! Yes indeed you have a 360 optical wheel. By the looks of things, a few optical disk teeth are missing (Seen in your 2nd picture) so that's going to be a problem should you try and somehow get the sensor circuit working with mame...
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I fixed it with a piece of plastic bottle and a bit of black paint... :P
--- Quote from: geecab on February 21, 2017, 06:54:07 pm ---Considering your cab's current condition, I think I'd just recommend quickly wiring/hacking up an old PS2 mouse to your steering mechanism and trying a load of games out and seeing how you get on (Though I probably would recommend this approach considering its what I did with my cab! :P )
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I would to use an external controller looks like OPTI PAC, but made from an italian user (and friend) of arcadeitalia forum, the board name is SMARTASD. You can controls opti and analogs device and, with and easy external circuit, others 8 light buttons or simply game light trought mamehook. http://www.arcadeitalia.net/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=20198
--- Quote from: geecab on February 21, 2017, 06:54:07 pm ---I see from another thread you want to play SpyHunter and considering what you should do about your current gear shifter (whether to add more fire buttons to the control panel). I also encountered the same dilemma when building my driving cab. In the end I just stuck with the Hi/Low shifter. By the side of the shifter I added 2 buttons, these buttons are 'Shift up' and 'Shift down' buttons, used for driving games that have more than 2 gears (E.g. Virtua Racing, Super Monaco GP). I also bought a bunch of cheap black push buttons on ebay that I concealed into the control panel that I use for things like the SpyHunter weapons, Daytona Car View point, Super Spint player 2 etc... Take a quick look at my "Pole Position II cab scratch build" thread as there are quite a few pictures of my control panel, it might help give you a few ideas.
Hope this helps :)
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At the moment im in front of two working options (looking for better to play driving games and SPY HUNTER also) :
- remove my old steerling wheel and replace it with an original SPY HUNTER wheel (yes i found one), so i play definally fine SH but bad the other 360 gams (right?)
- leave the original 360 wheel and use the UP/DOWN shifter gear....with NOS butto (pic below) (for the fire on SH), and add some "view" buttons usefuls for both kind of games...
I'm totally noob for driving cab conversion....im on yours hands! :notworthy:
PS: Yes...please reup your mame version hack.... :cheers:
baritonomarchetto:
I liked jammasd as much as i dislike smartasd: it's mainly a microcontroller board priced 10 times more than an arduino leonardo... a seller deal only.
geecab:
I must admit, I don't really know much about smartasd boards so I can't really comment. But I can imagine it would be a cool project getting your existing sensor circuit working with an optipac/arduino/smartasd type board so go for it :) BTW. Well done repairing your optical disk using a plastic bottle, neat idea!
The NOS gear shift with the side button looks good, and its cool if you can get hold of a Spy Hunter controller too.
Unfortunately, it is fact that if you go for '360' style steering mechanism (PolePostion/SuperSprint/Arkanoid), then some 'Limited turning circle' style games (SpyHunter/Daytona/OutRun) might not play so great. And similarly the opposite is true in that if you go for a 'Limited turning circle' style steering mechanism, then '360' style steering mechanism games won't play so great (or not at all).
The problem you are going to have is building a driving cab that suits all your needs, as there is not one solution that suits everything. Everyone who has built a driving cab has had a similar dilemma at some point. I guess only really you can decide what to go for based on what games are most important to you :)
>>PS: Yes...please reup your mame version hack..
No worries. I'll try and upload them this weekend.
Thorvald:
Thanks for all the work on this! I just finished my cabinet and have a pair of spinners with the 6 inch wheel attachment from Ultimarc. Works great except for those games that hate 360's...
I'm running the latest 1.82 so I'll likely have to setup a dev environment and apply your changes to a newer build. Then also look into possible LUA methods (assuming we can get to that low of a level).
Cheers
Tim
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