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Ideas for a Steering Wheel
Fozzy The Bear:
--- Quote from: leapinlew on December 29, 2006, 01:05:50 pm ---I built a mousehack for my old driving game, but I remember thinking if I were to do it all over again I'd use a standard spinner connected to my wheel using a flexible shaft like the kind you see on drill bits. Would this work?
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No reason why that shouldn't work... The only thing to remember is that the closer to a straight line between the wheel and the spinner, the better...
When you bend a flexible shaft it increases the friction in the shaft. But it shouldn't be too much of a problem.
Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
extremepong:
Even though you have the spinners on hand I wonder whether a mouse hack spinner might still be a good way to go since you already are going to build a rotating shaft with nice bearings for you wheel. Rather than figure out how to avoiding damage to the nice spinners, perhaps you could just affix a clear/striped drum around the steering wheel shaft (as a light chopper) and use the 'ol mouse hack. Of course, that's probably not what you wanted to hear.
Zeppo:
So, will a 360 spinner work for all driving games?
Or are there some games that need one of those wheels that don't go all the way around?
leapinlew:
you'll have a much smaller collection of driving games when you try to get the exact setup. The variables are:
Horizontal or Vertical monitor layout
270 degree or 360 degree steering wheel
Manual shifter and automatic shifter
Turbo button on the shifter or no turbo button
1 pedal, 2 pedal or 3 pedals
microswitch pedals or pot pedals
fire buttons in various locations (steering wheel, shifter, control panel)
Once you decide on your layout, you'll find that there are only a handful of mame games you want to play using that layout. I built a 360 degree, 2 pedal, horizontal layout, microswitched pedal game. It could play about 4 games great - the rest were a compromise.
The one thing you can do to get maximum driving games to work is to use a console, like an xbox. They use a standard setup and many driving games will work using a console setup.
shardian:
--- Quote from: Zeppo on January 03, 2007, 09:56:54 am ---So, will a 360 spinner work for all driving games?
Or are there some games that need one of those wheels that don't go all the way around?
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A 360 wheel will work for all spinner/wheel games. However, you won't have the spring back to center. I played Outrun the other day on my spinner, and I could have swore I had more of a turning radius than in the arcade, but keeping the car going in a straight line was a little more difficult. Still definitely playable though.