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| Ninten-doh:
Kremmit, I just grabbed the manual off of KLOV and you're right. There is a small gear which I've highlighted in yellow in the diagram here. Too bad I'm a scaredy cat when it comes to anything electrical or this would sound like a fun project... |
| u_rebelscum:
--- Quote from: PoDunkMoFo on November 27, 2006, 06:11:00 pm ---Remember that the Roadblaster yoke is not full rotational and is optical. This might not be the best for an overall driving controll. Great for Roadblasters though. --- End quote --- I'll work good (to okay to bad) with 270 degree games if you leave the restrictor in. It depends if the optical "skips" never (or sometimes or often, respectively). "Skips" could be in the hardware or software. Enable mice in mame, and make sure you start the game with the yoke centered. You also might need to turn off pointer enhancement in windows (to turn off intentional software skipping), and adjust mame's sensitivity. (Hmm, okay, not as easy as I thought, but it can work without physical changes.) If you remove the restrictor, be very careful about the wires for the thumb/trigger buttons. |
| Ninten-doh:
Okay, so I got the Road Blasters yoke/wheel, and I've decided to convert it to a 270 wheel. Playing 360 wheel games with my spinner is decent, and Out Run is one of my favorites. Plus,. I figure I could play some PC driving games with a 270 as well. I'll use a Dual Strike as the interface. Anyway, I took a look at the wheel and thought it would be a piece of cake UNTIL I noticed how small the second gear is. You can barely see it in this pic from Quarterarcade.com, where it's behind the wire harness and in front of the encoder wheel: For one turn to the left or right, the small gear turns more than 360 by the time it hits the restrictor. Now, some of you may be saying, "Well of course you idiot, it was an optical wheel!", but keep in mind that gears, potentiometers, etc are all new to me. At least I'm trying! ;D What's my next course of action? Do I need to replace both gears or just get a larger second gear? Ideally I would like to stick the potentiometer into the current setup, but I'm assuming that's not an option. |
| Havok:
I would suggest you mount a potentiometer with a gear that meshes with the large gear in the back. Since this has easy access, it would be simple to attach to the frame somewhere, and you can run the pot output to the dual strike hack, leaving all the electronics\setup there so you could easily remove your hack and still put it back to original quick and easy? |
| PoDunkMoFo:
Just what I was about to say. Possibly mount a metal l bracket off to one side. I know zero about gearing so maybe someone else can help you figure out what size gear & toothcount to use. By mounting a bracket on the open side you could just leave all the optical stuff in place. |
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