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| NoOne=NBA=:
--- Quote from: BazookaJo on March 02, 2005, 11:44:47 am ---Apologies if my refusal to personally hand craft each cog of the x-control is upsetting the BYOAC hardcore. --- End quote --- It's not that at all. It's that there are too many subtle things about the controls that make them work as well as they do that you can't easily duplicate in a home-brew. There is NO easy way to get a GOOD yoke, except to buy one. If you are looking for a good start point, at least start with real arcade parts. Bolting controls onto a good 270 wheel shaft will be much easier, and more durable, than using a PC wheel. You are trying to approach this from too many angles (cheap, easy, good). You only get to pick two. Which two are most important to you? |
| lcddream:
...if i were you i'd pick good 'n cheap ';] |
| NoOne=NBA=:
Ahhhh......but GOOD and CHEAP ain't EASY. The GOOD/CHEAP version is the TwistyGrip. The GOOD/EASY version is a real yoke, and an AKI. The CHEAP/EASY version is either an analog stick, or will likely be GARBAGE when it gets done. |
| BazookaJo:
--- Quote ---There is NO easy way to get a GOOD yoke, except to buy one. If you are looking for a good start point, at least start with real arcade parts. Bolting controls onto a good 270 wheel shaft will be much easier, and more durable, than using a PC wheel. You are trying to approach this from too many angles (cheap, easy, good). You only get to pick two. Which two are most important to you? --- End quote --- Well, I think you'll find that the '(cheap, easy, good) Exclusivity Law' is not a universal truth, though I agree it may prove correct more often than not. I also agree that even the best mod of a PC wheel will fall short of 'arcade quality', having no greater durability than that of the PC steering wheel from which it was constructed. That said, I have seen numerous scratch built yokes, and believe that the PC wheel would be as good if not better than most. Guess there's only one way to find out. Joe. |
| paigeoliver:
I really wish you guys would stop talking about these things, I have owned like 6 of them now, and people keep giving me big money offers on them, so I take them, and then I get the itch again! I have Roadblasters one? I wonder if I could rig it? |
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