Complete Wheel, Pedals, and Shifter setup

[Cyclone83]

Hi,

I am brand new to forums so please forgive me if I have missed the answer to my question somewhere. I have read every discussion from most of the site that I can with regards to my question but still can not get my emu to recognize my wheel. My logitech profile for the g920 is set to separate pedals with 200° rotation. Ive tried setting xinput in the .ini settings to both 1 and 0 but no luck. If its zet to 0 I cant map the steering, break or accelarator buttons. The emu crashes and stops working. If its set to 1 the only analogue devices recognized are my gamepads 1-4. My g920 is not an option....even if I remove the remotes from the pc. I really want to use my wheel for these games. Can someone please offer a step by step walkthrough or is that too much of a pain to ask for? Again, sorry for the trouble and thank you in advance for any help.

[Howard_Casto]

You didn't tell us which emulator you are having trouble with.  That might help. 

[Cyclone83]

Yes it would. Im sorry about that. Sega model 2. You should also know that I have 4 wireless xbox360 remotes plugged in....2 aimtrak light guns, 1 trackball, 1 dolphin bar and 4 wimotes.

[Howard_Casto]

Well your first step is to unplug all of that crap.  Concentrate on getting it to work on the gamepad you want to use, and then worry about having it live happily with everything else. 

[buttersoft]

What Howard said, but you could also try Vjoy and UJR/UCR to feed it. A single Vjoy device will take the first (#0?) joystick spot, which will probably bump your other devices down the list by +1 each.  I'm using Vjoy to get better control of some old wheels, and nothing has any trouble seeing it as the first device. Assuming that's the problem here, of course.

Or you can figure out which spot to place the wheel to have it show up first - into control panel, devices and printers, right click on a game controller and go to properties. The order in which things appear is the numbering, I believe. It will always be the same each time you boot, assuming nothing is unplugged and nothing new plugged in.

EDIT: by which I meant, of course, that you can plug your devices into different ports to change the order/numbering.

[Cyclone83]

Thank you both for these suggestions. Howard, yours did the trick for me the first time. Most of my devices are plugged into a USB brick so I shut that off on the emu recognized my wheel along with the i-pac4. I cant thank you enough. Ill give things a try on the supermodel now and see what kind of luck I have.

One last thing though, what about settings for sega rally championship? As soon as the game starts my wheel starts shaking like a mad man. Its the only game it does this in. Can I adjust a setting somewhere to fix this or maybe disable FFB for this game alone?

[buttersoft]

Badmouth mentions something similar, I think, in a post about converting some of steering hardware... Can't remember where it is. Hopefully he'll read this and chime in.

[isamu]

I would make a completely separate folder for Model 2 emu and Sega Rally. The FFB parameters in ini file definitely need to be changed between those two games.

Buttersoft I agree with you about vJoy/UCR. They are fantastic programs. I love them. Only thing missing is UCR doesn't incorporate force feedback support for the wheels. Otherwise it wouldn't solved a shedload of problems for me. Luckily I discovered GIMX and will be using my "Virtual G27" from now on 

[BadMouth]

One last thing though, what about settings for sega rally championship? As soon as the game starts my wheel starts shaking like a mad man. Its the only game it does this in. Can I adjust a setting somewhere to fix this or maybe disable FFB for this game alone?

It just does that.  No way to fix it.

There are a couple threads about ffb settings in the ini file.  Search the driving cab subforum for them.
The ini file allows you to have separate ffb settings for each game.
Using the recommended settings in those threads as an example, you can make a separate section for Sega Rally Championship and turn the effects down or off.
Personally, I just accept it.  The wheel behaves normally after the race starts.

[Cyclone83]

I never did play through the game far enough to have it act normal for me. Ill give that a shot today. Thank you badmouth and to everyone who lent suggestions for my issue. Im having a blast playing these childhood favorites!!