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RobotronNut:

--- Quote ---Road Blasters may not be very good with an analog yoke.  The original game used an optical steering wheel.
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hmm... apparently the original roadblasters used an optical yoke, like a 360 degree wheel, with a physical restriction, so it could only move thru something like 270 degrees.

is anyone out there successfully playing roadblasters on a 270 degree analog yoke? if not, what other good solutions are there?
cw:
get a road blasters wheel and make a cp?
Major Rock Hardy:
I found this strange also.  I have tried it with an Ultimarc A-PAC running a SW yoke in windows mame and it gave me problems.  Yoke calibrated fine in win2k and works fine in SW and stunrun. 

If I can't get it to work, it shouldn't be too hard to also mount a spoked wheel and optical sensor (via mouse hack, etc.) somewhere on the backend where the left/right pot is.  Of course no destroying original equipment though!  :o
u_rebelscum:
You could edit the source.  Mame doesn't simulate relative analog (mouse/trackball/spinner) input types well with anything but relative devices.  Since analog joysticks & 270 wheels are absolute, mame translates the analog data to digital left/right/center internally, then translates that to simulated relative data.

All you have to do is a small edit of the source: change the input type of the wheel from spinner to paddle, and recompile.  (That's a one word change.)

This has been an issue of mame's, and the person who wrote the drive feels that mame's generic "dial" input type documents the original hardware better than the generic "paddle" input type.  I agree for documenting (mame's main goal), but playability (which isn't mame's main goal) "paddle" works better for most PC hardware.  Do not bring it up with the mameDevs though; just live with it and compile your own.
Major Rock Hardy:
word.  Thanks for the tip!

I figured I'd have to re-write a portion of something where the difference inputs increment/decrement a counter that saturate at the analog limits the paddle control code would expect... or something... but a one-word change - I like that!

Rock
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