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| Minwah:
--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on January 02, 2005, 12:56:49 am --- How do you map the buttons to 'change gear' --- End quote --- |
| Doc-:
I'm interested in the joystick option - has anyone been able to map a joystick (perhaps a four way diagonally mounted) to act as a shifter? I think this would work for the majority of games, but I have not yet tried it (I'm in the middle of hacking my pole position wheel this week). I was thinking that the 360 wheel with a 4 way joystick diagonally mounted as the shifter and a button panel might cover it (along with a few foot pedals). Thoughts? Cheers! Doc- |
| Hiub1:
Why not just make some sort of restrictor plate so it only goes up and down. You could easily make that out of .5'' mdf, with just a little oval so it moves up and down. All you would need would be a really crappy joystick, say an old ultimate you might have laying around and put a super stiff spring on it and mount it on there. If you wanted to make it even more sophisticated you could even machine your own handle and make it longer, then build some sort of catch so the shifter would stay. Here is a site that you might drool at, check out all their sim racing shifters and stuff, it is SO crazy. BTW they charge an arm and a leg too :) http://www.frex.com/vr |
| Minwah:
I doubt a joystick would feel quite as good as a real shifter, but Happ bat handle sticks look quite similar to their shifter handles... |
| Mojo2000:
--- Quote from: Hiub1 on January 02, 2005, 06:45:10 pm ---Here is a site that you might drool at, check out all their sim racing shifters and stuff, it is SO crazy. BTW they charge an arm and a leg too :) http://www.frex.com/vr --- End quote --- Damn, that is the tastiest site I've visited in ages! NOW I'm really motivated to knock off a bank or something, just so I can have some of that Frex stuff in my cabinet! ;D The prices really don't seem so bad when you watch the shifter video and understand just what you're getting. In fact, I was about to complain about how no arcade supplier seemed to take realistic shifters seriously. Frex to the rescue! |
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