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Best Steering Wheel Setup?
paigeoliver:
That wheel has an analog shifter. Which is what I use for up down movement. I really score better using the trackball, but it is fun to pull out the wheel from time to time.
The vast majority of 360 degree arcade wheels should interface just fine through an Optipac or probably even Oscars $8 spinner interface.
Magnet_Eye:
Ah, I see...so you could interface an actual 360 wheel..but then you would need to have a CP dedicated to that most likely...I like the "clip on" wheels logitech has, cuz I could clip them onto my existing CP when I need to...
Just can't play pole position and stuff. which really blows!
damn!
my dream is crushed. :-\
-m
shmokes:
Screw that, get a 270 wheel. The 360 games are at least playable with a spinner, while the 270 games suck suck suck with a 360 wheel.
But the real REAL REAL reason to use a 270 wheel is for all the new games. Crazy Taxi, Colin McRae, Need for Speed, Grand Prix Legends, Nascar 2003, blah blah blah.
If there is one genre of NEW arcade games that still lends itself to our little homemade cabinets it's....well, fighting games. But if there're two genres they are fighting games and racing games. And the new racing games are just so much fun with a wheel. I'd play crazy taxi with a wheel any day of the week and twice on sunday over paper boy. Grand Prix Legends v. Pole Position? No question. Super Offroad v. Colin McRae Rally 3? Common.
Get the 270 wheel and just use your spinner for the other games. Or don't.
Smittydc:
http://www.joy-stick.net/reviews/other/rasebase.htm
what else could you need?
wee beastie:
I think Oscar used to make steering wheel controls. At least I bought mine off of someone on this message board that had their own business. I don't think he makes them anymore, but the thing straight up ROCKS. It's like a giant spinner with the standard 3 holes in it. That way I could attatch any steering wheel I wanted to it.
Here's a pic of it installed. The picture is kinda crappy, but the wheel is great.