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Hacking Hydro Thunder..err Offroad Thunder (Updated)
Impact93:
So. Hydro Thunder is off the table now because somewhere out there lurks a rare PC version that kind of works? I gave up on the idea of running it via MAME because 5 years ago everyone said it wasn't possible to get Hydro Thunder with force feedback working on a MAME unit.
I haven't posted on these forums in a long time but my two favorite games were Hydro Thunder and SFRush, its the reason i converted a busted SFRush cab into a sit down Xbox360 Cab. All i had to do was hack apart an Xbox360 force feedback wheel and fit it into the SFRush wheel case. After that i just changed the POTS on the arcade unit to ones with the same voltage that the xbox360 gas and brake pedal use. It was the best way that i could figgure to be able to play Hydro Thunder Hurricane, Outrun2006, Daytona and any other race game on 360, many of the games with force feedback. I ended up converting a side by side Final Lap into the same sort of thing but 2 player.
Once Xbox360 Arcade went down in support of the new XboxOne i can no longer access Hydro Thunder Hurricane (great game btw) and as such i havent played my arcade unit very much at all this last year. I hear that the game is available on Xbox1 now but the xbox360 steering wheel is NOT compatible with an xbox1. I find myself considering ripping out the Xbox controls and going the route of MAME on pc now.
I would love to be able to play Offroad Thunder and Hydro Thunder with FFB in the same arcade unit, not to mention OutRun,F-zero,MKart etc. I think its amazing the work you guys are putting into this topic. Really something special. I will continue to lurk around the forums and see if i can bring myself to learn all the new stuff you guys are referencing.
sorry for the off topic, i've just been reading a lot in these Race Cab forums over the past few days and the same names keep popping up and i figured a KUDOS was in order
Howard_Casto:
It isn't off the table, it's just of a lower priority. I have a tendency to follow the rabbit down the rabbit hole way to far on projects like these, so I've learned to pace myself. Realistically it shouldn't be terribly hard to support hydro thunder as well, but that's if time allows.
BadMouth:
:bump
Just keeping this on the radar. >:D
Howard_Casto:
Yeah. Currently the controls to my rig are in a rat's nest of wires in the floor. Since it'll be difficult to wire up, I'm waiting until I can install everything permanently. I've stained the dash panel and I still have to cut some recesses in the back for the dot-matrix display. Then I can re-assemble the dash, at least, and I'll be able to test stuff. I really need to update my status on that... things are in the home stretch.
MTPPC:
I was just thinking that analog inputs to an Audrino or AVR could be used to do PWM style keyboard inputs to those digital input PC games. I guess it would depend on the input latency of the software and hardware, but I would love to put SFRush in my Pentium 4 driving cabinet if it wasn't for the digital inputs.
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