Driving Cabinet Questions...

[Xynie]

Hey everyone... with the help of this forum, my Mame Machine is a huge success.  Lucid's plans were great, and all the software and parts tips I received here were awesome.  It is a hit at all my get togethers.

Anyways... I am ready for my next project.  Working at an arcade in the late 90's, I was addicted to Rush 2049.  Now I know this is available on Dreamcast, so I was thinking about making a Driving Cabinet.  I have a couple of questions about it, however.

1.  Does anyone know of any good sites with cabinet plans for a Driving Cabinet?

2.  How are are shifters, wheels, and pedals hooked up.  Just use a PC setup and use USB?  I assume it will work in mame, I just want to make sure.

3.  Are there any good frontends that allow you to use the 50 or so Mame Games, PC games like NFS, and maybe a Dreamcast emulator of some sort that would allow me to mount my Rush 2049 disk on my PC, so I don't need to hookup my Dreamcast?

Thanks for all the help, as always!  I tried to search, but I didn't find much.

Anthony

[spystyle]

There is a nice cockpit plan on Ebay for $3

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=13717&item=6114284295&rd=1

ask the seller your questions :)

Dig it?
Craig

[the3eyedblindman]

Go to netbox.home.mindspring.com and look at pocketz driving cabinet, its one of my favorites on the site, he di a very nice driving setup, read his description on how he did it.

[Xynie]

There is a nice cockpit plan on Ebay for $3

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=13717&item=6114284295&rd=1

ask the seller your questions

Dig it?
Craig
http://spystyle.arcadecontrols.com

I ran accross a link to his site in a much older thread on the boards.  I sent him an email askign about the proejct, and he sent me back the plans for free since I am from this site... nice guy, he is really helpful

Anthony

[Antiriad2097]

At the moment, the only working Dreamcast emulator is Chankast, available here:

http://chanka.emulatronia.com/FrameSetDC_Down.htm

Its fairly new but works remarkably well with a fair range of games. Note that it doesn't support running games from the original GD-ROM but works well enough with images. Its still early in development but worth following as these releases have been impressive for a new emu.