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My HAPP FFB cab - Advice re shifter interface???

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ScottoKong:
Hi All

I'm finally getting back to my racing cab - Been getting my pinball machines up and running. 

Had a thread ages ago over at the project announcements thread.

I've managed to get a servo hack happening with an old Crusin USA cab and a pot based logitech wheel.

Originally I only really wanted to play daytona and sega rally.

Got FFB happening great with daytona, sega rally has wobbles between stages, but greeat in game.

I need to work out how to interface the replacement happ shifter i'm buying.
originally I was planning to interface it via a keyboard encoder rather than mess with diodes on the logitech board.

Can someone confirm - will a keyboard encoder cause issues with PC games?
THinking that PC games only take 1 input??? 
It seems that model 2 is fine with 2 inputs???

Any advice is really appreciated!

Scott

BadMouth:
I cannot think of any games or emulators that won't accept keyboard input in addition to a controller.  I went the keyboard encoder route for my buttons and haven't come across any issues.

That said, diodes aren't complicated things. 


I added a link to your build thread to the sticky at the top of this forum.
Please post more pics of that cab if you have them!

Brian74:
When I was using the happ shifter, I used diodes.

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Brian74:
Now that I have my G-25 mounted in the dash. I was thinking about making it so I could swap out the 6 speed shifter for the happ 4 speed or a happ turbo speed shifter.

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ScottoKong:
Thanks for the replies.

I was kinda hoping not to use the buttons on the wheel - I've hacked it to interface with the Happ controls in  my Crusin Cab.

For Model 2 this was gonna be fine but PC games are mucking me around.

BADMOUTH - I'm sure that you had hyperspin controlled via the steering wheel - ie changing games.  Mine just wants to scroll continuously when its enabled.
 
Also Outrun 2006 - whats the best way to interface gears????
I'm really struggling to customise controls.
I'm assuming a 4 switch shifter wont work as most cars will have more that 4 gears???

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