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Happ 360° Steering Wheel
Pitou:
I did the test on a Vista PC and it doesn't detect the gameport, it seems to only see the MPU-401 MIDI, but no drivers
Pitou!
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: Pitou on August 13, 2007, 11:03:19 am ---I did the test on a Vista PC and it doesn't detect the gameport, it seems to only see the MPU-401 MIDI, but no drivers
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I went looking on the MSKB and didn't find anything specific to the Gameport not working. One KB seems to imply that the gameport does work as long as the manufacturer of the card have drivers available. Another KB implies the gameport is being phased out, as recently as XP, with some of the older Sidewinder product support being dropped.
AndyWarne:
We sell the exact same steering wheel and I can confirm it connects to the Mini-PAC and Opti-PAC.
Andy
Pitou:
Andy,
I'm going to buy the steering wheel from Ultimarc, but would prefer a mouse hack, since I have plenty here at work that are not used. (I think we have more than 25 mice lying around)
Of course, I can't ask you if it'll work with a mouse hack or not, I guess it could hurt the a-pac, mini-pac, opti-pac sells.
So I'm taking the chance...
BTW, i already ordered a 4/8 way (on top switchable) joystick last year and it works like a charm!
Thanks!
Pitou!
ZeroPoint:
Pitou...
I would really recommend you to spend $39 on a OptiPac instead of going for the mouse hack thing. With this board you will actually get two mice with two buttons each (4 separate inputs for mame + buttons) to connect wheels, spinners etc. In addition you can add more that that by sharing inputs with the automatic switch (although time delay should have been shorter).
The 360 wheel is much more fun than a pot-wheel. If you need to do some hacking I would recommend to take the pedals from som cheap driving set and connect them to the a-pac or similar as a pedal set for your 360 wheel. I am going to build me a Super Sprint set with two 360 wheels and two sets of pedals some time soon. Really looking forward to it. :)