TLDR: Logitech Driving Force EX (the PS2/PC blue one) wiring diagrams wanted. ThanksHi there,
Last December a group of friends and I bought a GTI Club twin cab. It wasn’t the game I played the most back in the day, but we liked the looks and it was cheap enough. The seller didn’t know if it was in working condition, but for the price we thought it was fair enough if only for the seats , control panels and wood.
Finally, after 2 weeks waiting , the cab was at my friends garage. We made a first round of cleaning and started to figure out all the wiring and components. The seller already pointed out there was a missing PCB and power supply
The original project: the restorationWe downloaded the owner’s manual and after several attemps, it passed the tests and the game boot correctly. You can imagine our excitement. We were expecting nothing in this regard but instead we got a working cab. Screen, sound, and controls work almost to perfection (Handbrake too!).
At this point we thought the best route was to get a second PCB and keep the cab with its original game. And try to repair the second CRT which showed no signal.
But turns out GTI Club wasn’t a popular game in Spain (at least not like Sega Rally or Daytona) and it wasn’t cheap to get a working PCB without costly (and risky) international shipment.
We found a very cheap board with unknown working condition and took the chance, but the PCB was dead.
But this wasn’t the only bad news. Sadly, after a couple of parties at our friend’s garage, the working CRT started to switch off by itself after shorter periods of use each time. At one point, it won’t turn on anymore.
With this situation we sat and thought “Are we going to spend more money trying to repair old components to stick to one game? Or can we try to turn the cab into a multi-system emulation machine?” And we ended up going for the later.