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Hooking up Pole Position controls to a Mame Cabinet?
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SirPeale:
I had the opportunity to pick up a PP wheel for nothing a year or so back.  I should have taken it.  Thought I'd never want it, but now I just want to experiment.
dirt:
i used oscars mouse hack and his encoder pcb. just replace the pp pcb with oscars and plug it in. you do have to open the mounting holes up a little bit to get the pcb to fit but it is an easy setup. as far as the shifter and pedals go, i just hotglued a microswitch the the pedal assembly so the pedal engaged it and the shifter was just hooked up the way it came( i haven't got around to hacking it yet). hope this helps.

dirt
jimmyjet:
The picture is kind of crappy, but it's the best I could get without climbing inside the cabinet.  You can kind of see how the mouse hack is suspended over the gear driven encoder wheel.  Notice the tacky pushpins holding the mouse hack to the 1/4" plywood.  Cheap but effective.

For the pedals mine are activated with microswitches.  Either on or off. They are wired into the joystick hack.  Seems pretty good to me.  
jimmyjet
Minwah:
See my trackball mouse hack here: http://mamewah.mameworld.net/mousehack.html

You can do exactly the same but you only need to use 1 axis.  You can use the original Pole Position optics :)
ratabase1:
 ???Okay, finally got around to getting a mouse hack from OscarControls with the spinner wiring harness.    Has anybody used one of these to wire up a Pole Position Steering Wheel using the existing optic board on the steering wheel?  If so, would you be so kind to point out which wires from the Pole Position Optic board attach to which wires on the wiring harness.  I assume I would cut the red connector, which all four wires connect, off the wiring harness and hook the Pole Pos optic wires to them.  Thanks in advance for your help.  
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