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Slippyblade:
I thought Hydro Thunder wasn't emulated properly? Or am I just completely out of the loop these days?

Mike A:
That is a nice focused build. Really clean.

leapinlew:
Looks good Chuck!

I don't have any great suggestions for the art, except to say do something. :) Maybe minimal being better. Some CP/Yoke/bezel stuff to really pull in the star wars theme. I'll echo your doubt towards a pedal. I had a mame driver. Not a lot of games out there if you add a pedal. I mean, there will definitely be some games, but depending on whether you go with a microswitch pedal, or a pot, you'll still have to deal with the other variables such as 270 or 360 degree steering wheel, shifter hi/low or shifter 1-4 gears, and additional buttons. You'll find the game list really shrinks. I always said that if I built another cabinet for driving games, it would be for a console.

leapinlew:
And maybe I missed it but what are you using to connect the Yoke to the PC? I'm interested in the game list - does everything work pretty well?

Mine doesn't have the same list of games as yours does, so I'm interested in the front end and configuration you picked.

Le Chuck:
Yoke is connected via a KADE board, game list is up a few posts in the reply to RetroGreg if anyone missed it. It's short. Everything works great. Hydro Thunder is the PC port so it's great (not arcade beautiful) but arcade playable and looks pretty damn good as it is once you turn on all the fancy-schmancy stuff in the gui, if you haven't played it you should definitely look it up. It's a standalone and not too difficult to find. FE post is here, I had been using Arximidis FE and trying to get a nice spacey feel and finally switched over the attractmode with the Warp layout. It's cool because the starfield moves in every direction you move the yoke. The games just rotate left/right across the screen in carousel. You could set up multiple emulators to cycle through by going down/up but since I run such a condensed list I'm just batch loading everything from a single folder. Easier on guests too. The only games that take explanation are Trilogy and Mario Kart because both of those you have to wait until you're past the initial load screen to coin up or they get angry. Everything else just works.

I have a few positional gun games in the mix, they are just a different format of an on-rails shooter so they work great. I've tried a few of the lightgun games but most don't feel right on the yoke. Jurassic and T2 are just there for my boys, they love it and don't know any better about the control lol. The others actually feel pretty natural on the yoke, especially Gundam. The only game I had to do special control mapping (aside from adjusting the analog sensitivity or flipping the Y axis depending on game) was Cybersled. I have to press a button and steer to turn, otherwise I just strafe. Took all of 5 minutes to get used to it and now I can run the board with about any of the sleds, but I favor the slower, harder hitters. Most of the games I tried to keep in the space fighter theme, both because that's what I like and also just for aesthetics - but there's a lot on the list that is just too fun not to have. Mario Kart and Hydro Thunder get played literally every time the machine is on. Not so for some of the others.

Lew - What's your gamelist looking like, I'm always looking for a good game to add? Good advice on the pedal. You're right, there are a few titles like Thunder Ceptor that need an accelerator but I answered that with the thumbstick I added. After a week I also decided Thunder Ceptor is a crap game and yanked it from the list. I've tried a few Shmups but it's hard to find ones have a behind the pilot POV and I don't like the top down regular style with the yoke, plus my screen is landscape so yeah, plus the yoke isn't really the best controller for bullet hell, so yeah. That's why I was thrilled to come across Gunner's Heart. It's a Doujin (japanese indie/fan game) that is awesome. Eventually I'll drop the $20 for the english version, right now I'm pretty sure it's trying to communicate with me about some important story but I'm just not getting it lol.

I'll do CPO and Yoke overlay first and see how I feel from there, don't want to clutter up such a small build.

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