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driving cabinet - pc gas pedal controls
bdsjake:
pocketz, did you figure this out? I'm interested in adding a wheel/pedal for older games, pole position, turbo, sprint.
Does the gas pedal on these games need to be analog, or just a switch, on/off?
thanks,
paigeoliver:
Turbo uses a kind of strange gas pedal that is optical or magnetic or hall effect or something. Basically the pedal you step on itsn't hooked up to anything. It seems to break a light beam or something. Won't work when you shine a light at it, or if the back door is off and the room lighting is really bright.
That particular pedal seems to smoothly accelerate to all different speeds.
I don't have the machine at my house at the moment. But I am pretty sure about the fact that it isn't physically connected to any wiring, and that it doesn't work when you shine a light on it.
u_rebelscum:
--- Quote from: bdsjake on May 14, 2003, 12:41:44 am ---...I'm interested in adding a wheel/pedal for older games, pole position, turbo, sprint.
Does the gas pedal on these games need to be analog, or just a switch, on/off?
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Mame's default for these games are buttons, so switches have to work with mame.
With switches, it's all or nothing; mame's analog joy/key speed sets how fast you change from "nothing" up to "all" (from "all" down to "nothing" is a constant speed). This means you can't really stay at the middle, half-pressed, speeds with switches.
Even though I find I use all the way down or all the way up ~95% of the time when racing arcade games, that ~5% of the time that I play with the pedal partially down makes a huge difference in game fun and lap speeds. Plus, Spy Hunter is the one game I play partially down most of the time.
Unless you always, and I mean 100% of the time for all games, play either not pressed or pressed all the way down, I suggest an analog pedal.
(Of course, I'm bias about this subject; evidence: name of the derivative I upkeep,Mame:Analog+. ::) *shrug* )
paigeoliver:
You have to have the force on your side to play Turbo with the pedal pegged after the timer runs out. (Unlimited lives until timer runs out, then you have two lives). My friend Dave can do it, but I think he has the enemy car patterns memorized.
anthony691:
The pedals from the Badlamds conversion kit are analog. They have an odd pot in them.