hacking mspac 5 in one pot and joystick

[jimmyjet]

In the jakks 5-in-one there is a pot that controls Pole Position.  There are three wires going to that pot.  Can I hook those three wires to a new joystick (one to left, one to right, and one to common gnd) and have the joystick control Pole Position? 
I want to replace the POS joystick with a better one and want to try controlling Pole Position through the joy as well.
Thanks for any thoughts on this hack.
jim

[Minwah]

It might work, but since it would be digital rather than analog you would lose a lot of control and the gameplay would be crap, IMO.  Like playing Pole Position with your cursor keys 

[crashwg]

I could have sworn I read someone's post that stated that the joystick that's on it can also be used to steer and that they were having problems with pole position becuase they would accidentally engage the joystick while rotating it... 

[LordDamo]

hook pole position up to something like this http://www.gunpowder.freeserve.co.uk/wheels/buildmain.htm

the wheel I mean

:-D

[Dav]

If you try it and your game still works let us know.  I suspect it won't.

I'm going to hack one too, but I haven't gotten around to taking mine apart so I'm not going to speculate too much.

[LordDamo]

Have you looked at the site I posted? The steering wheel bit. It uses a pot to control the steering wheel, if this thing already has a pot with 3 wires, just extend the wires. You could even try reusing the same pot to make it a bit easier to config.

Hope this helps.