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Author Topic: Spinner on Gamepad ????  (Read 1940 times)

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Spinner on Gamepad ????
« on: April 08, 2003, 09:45:07 am »
How do I wire up a spinner to a gamepad. I have a steering wheel that has been built using the basic spinner properties & I want to wire it up to my game pad to use on console games. How do I do this ?????

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Re:Spinner on Gamepad ????
« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2003, 09:48:30 am »
hate to break it to you after all that work, but unless there's some type of optic control availible for the game system, you are not going to be able to run it on a game system.  You'd have to get an analog steering wheel, and for that matter, you can just buy one at the store.
Game programmers do not play games for a living.  Would you say a mechanic drives cars for a living?

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Re:Spinner on Gamepad ????
« Reply #2 on: April 08, 2003, 10:37:27 am »
You could maybe hack it to a DC mouse, but why play Quake 3 with a steering wheel  :D

I think all console driving games rely on an analog stick style input (not optical).  Maybe it would be possible to hack a pot based wheel to a console pad?

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Re:Spinner on Gamepad ????
« Reply #3 on: April 08, 2003, 12:34:18 pm »
Maybe it would be possible to hack a pot based wheel to a console pad?
Yeah, that's what I was saying, but for that matter, why not just buy one of the wheels that are acutally designed for that console?
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Re:Spinner on Gamepad ????
« Reply #4 on: April 08, 2003, 01:24:50 pm »
while the gamepad is an analog device, unfortunately all of the inputs map to the endpoints of the analog range.  ie. when you hit left on the gamepad, it registers as full left.. you won't be able to pick up any of the values in between.  best you could hope for is to pick up a cheap analog joystick and hack the pots from the wheel in place of the stick pots.

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Re:Spinner on Gamepad ????
« Reply #5 on: April 08, 2003, 07:46:07 pm »
So by the sounds of it, I'm outta luck.
See what the situation is, I have control panel from an old driving arcade game with steering wheel & gear lever & I am curently building a cockpit cabinet which I will have my Sega Saturn installed in it with Sega Rally & Daytona USA & I wanted to use the steering control panel in this but it is an older one which looking at the back of it its basically a large spinner.
This is what I wanted to do but it seems I wont be able to.
Thanks for all your advice.