Oscar Controls steering wheel with pedals?

[wee beastie]

I have an OSCAR Controls Steering Wheel System that plugs into the mouse port.  I've hooked it up briefly and it seems to work great!  Now, I'd like to use gas pedals.  So, my question is, can I use the OSCAR steering wheel to control my steering (obviously) and hook up pedals via the joystick port (a la Lew's hack) to control gas/brake?

In other words, can I control the steering with a mouse, and the gas with an analog joystick at the same time?  Any other ideas?

Thanks guys!
wee beastie

[SirPoonga]

It would be possible.  But an alternative is to hook the pedal as a button.  There are many racing games that don't use analog input.

However, here is the list of games in mame that use an analog pedal.
http://urebelscum.speedhost.com/pedalpatch.html

[wee beastie]

There are many racing games that don;t use analog input.

Really?!  I didn't know that.  I'll check it out

[wee beastie]

ok, I checked out analog mame, and I've got a question.  If I make an analog pedal, will it only work with the list of games on analog mame?  or can I use an analog pedal to control others as well?

[Rocky]

Using an analog petal for games that just want a switch for the gas petal should work. I've not had a problem.  On my cab I'm building, I'm wiring a pot for the gas petal and also including a switch for games that need it. That way, I don't have to enable the -joystick switch in mame to play the game.


Rocky

[u_rebelscum]

ok, I checked out analog mame, and I've got a question.  If I make an analog pedal, will it only work with the list of games on analog mame?  or can I use an analog pedal to control others as well?

That list is only of games in mame that use mame's IPT_PEDAL input type.  Other games in mame use mame's IPT_AD_STICK (ie analog joystick) input type for the gas and brake.  For the ad_stick and pedal games, analog pedals work the best.

At some point, mame:analog+ will change some of the games that mame has with ad_stick input to two pedal inputs;  if the original game had dual/split pedals, ipt_ad_stick prevents accurate inputs like the original while two ipt_pedal's are like the original.


BTW, if you are designing your own pedals, you might want to have a hardware switch to change between single/composite pedals and dual/split pedals.  Most of the higher end PC pedals have a driver switch that does this, while the lower end PC pedal are composite.  This is mostly for the future, though, as currently only a couple games in mame are set up for dual pedals.