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| 2600:
IIRC, isn't Chase HQ able to use a restricted 270 optical based wheel or a pot based wheel. I believe that's what I've read in the manual and I think quite a few games can be configured either or. |
| u_rebelscum:
Further looking at the manual, I noticed there's a second optical sensor for the "center flag" (you can see the second sensor board in the photo, too, but no centering flag AFICS). So it's sort of like 720's controller (that has the indexing sensor). I don't think road blasters had the centering thing. So it's not as much the same as I was thinking. FWIW: 720 controller could be represented with two axes of dial type, but current simulated with an analog stick. RB controller could be represented with dial, paddle, or positional types (none exactly matching); current done as a dial. CHQ controller could be represented with dial (w/o centering part), paddle (simulated), dual axes dial (to include centering part), or positional (simulated like paddle, but more documented info in source) types, again none exactly matching; current done as a stick (analog). No answers on what mame should use for CHQ, but interesting that it had the centering sensor. |
| Minwah:
--- Quote from: u_rebelscum on July 16, 2008, 01:45:05 pm ---No answers on what mame should use for CHQ, but interesting that it had the centering sensor. --- End quote --- Also, interesting that RoadBlasters does not - given that the controller is restricted I mean. |
| Popcorrin:
Driver's Edge's wheel looks very similar to chasehq's. An encoder wheel with an additional optic sensor for centering. Listed in mame as a paddle. The momo wheel from logitech seems to use pretty much the same setup. It has an encoder wheel instead of a pot but it is seen as a paddle/joystick by windows. Then there is gtmr2. Have you looked at the wheel dipswitch settings for that game. It allows you to select joystick, wheel(360), wheel(270A), and wheel(270D). All the different configs can complicate things. |
| Minwah:
--- Quote from: Popcorrin on July 16, 2008, 03:31:43 pm ---Driver's Edge's wheel looks very similar to chasehq's. An encoder wheel with an additional optic sensor for centering. Listed in mame as a paddle --- End quote --- That's interesting to know. I bet there are probably quite a few games like this. Another similar example is Konami GT - treated in Mame as a paddle, but I believe this used an unrestricted optics based wheel, so should really be a 'dial'. --- Quote from: Popcorrin on July 16, 2008, 03:31:43 pm ---Then there is gtmr2. Have you looked at the wheel dipswitch settings for that game. It allows you to select joystick, wheel(360), wheel(270A), and wheel(270D). --- End quote --- Yes I have...and GTMR is pretty much the same (I recently hooked up the 360 deg wheel part, see Mame v0.126+). |
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