The NEW Build Your Own Arcade Controls
Main => Driving & Racing Cabinets => Topic started by: BadMouth on April 22, 2013, 09:57:39 am
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I have enough unfinished projects, but was browsing ebay this morning and came across an 18 wheeler shifter.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/18-wheeler-shifter-and-buttons-and-harness-for-shifter-and-buttons-/330911226177?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4d0bd89941 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/18-wheeler-shifter-and-buttons-and-harness-for-shifter-and-buttons-/330911226177?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4d0bd89941)
Interesting shifter that I haven't seen before.....
Looks like it would be easily moddable into a 6 speed by making a new bottom plate.
(or could serve as inspiration for a homemade design)
It's not clear what holds it in gear. Magnet maybe?
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I'm struggling to see how an 18 wheeler game would be fun?
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I'm struggling to see how an 18 wheeler game would be fun?
Is a delivery style game like crazy taxi. There are rivals and stuff to add to the excitement a bit.
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Wow.. didn't know there was an attraction to this stuff.
http://www.scssoft.com/games.php (http://www.scssoft.com/games.php)
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Wow.. didn't know there was an attraction to this stuff.
http://www.scssoft.com/games.php (http://www.scssoft.com/games.php)
There was a guy in the main forum earlier this year who was building a hardcore bus simulator.
Apparently there are bus simulator "games" where you have to drive the route, pick up people, give change......
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There was a guy in the main forum earlier this year who was building a hardcore bus simulator.
Apparently there are bus simulator "games" where you have to drive the route, pick up people, give change......
Sounds like my idea of fun
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Wow.. didn't know there was an attraction to this stuff.
http://www.scssoft.com/games.php (http://www.scssoft.com/games.php)
There was a guy in the main forum earlier this year who was building a hardcore bus simulator.
Apparently there are bus simulator "games" where you have to drive the route, pick up people, give change......
http://www.scssoft.com/busdriver.php (http://www.scssoft.com/busdriver.php)
I honestly don't know what to say about that one.
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Well there's this hardcore farm equipment simulator as well. It's not popular here at all, but I was thinking it was amazingly popular in Korea or somewhere like that.
I'll tell ya, driving a combine.... nothing like it. :lame:
I could see somebody doing something with an 18 wheeler though. It'd have to be something fun and out there, like a Smokey and the Bandit arcade game though.
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I could see somebody doing something with an 18 wheeler though. It'd have to be something fun and out there, like a Smokey and the Bandit arcade game though.
I was thinking Mad Max / Roadwarrior actually....
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WTF? Badmouth that just looks like a regular old 4-spd Happ shifter. This guy should be advertising it as a 4-way Happ shifter not an 18 wheeler shifter. Unless I'm wrong and this is in fact a 6 speed shifter? Either way it's Happ not Sega.
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WTF? Badmouth that just looks like a regular old 4-spd Happ shifter. This guy should be advertising it as a 4-way Happ shifter not an 18 wheeler shifter. Unless I'm wrong and this is in fact a 6 speed shifter? Either way it's Happ not Sega.
It only has 3 gears, but the way the plate on the bottom bolts on would make it super easy to modify into anything you want.
$10 shifter+$10 shipping+$10 worth of parts(IMO) = cheap 6 speed.
EDIT: ok, after checking out the exploded diagram of the Happ, yeah it's a happ with a custom bottom plate.
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I'm struggling to see how an 18 wheeler game would be fun?
i've played the 18 wheeler game for the dreamcast,
it's a fun change from the other types of racing games:
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18 wheeler "American pro trucker" - Dreamcast. Oldschool game. From start to finish. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZWaTp9T_Xo#ws)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18_Wheeler:_American_Pro_Trucker (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18_Wheeler:_American_Pro_Trucker)
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The slipstream made me laugh! :applaud:
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Well there's this hardcore farm equipment simulator as well. It's not popular here at all, but I was thinking it was amazingly popular in Korea or somewhere like that.
I'll tell ya, driving a combine.... nothing like it. :lame:
I could see somebody doing something with an 18 wheeler though. It'd have to be something fun and out there, like a Smokey and the Bandit arcade game though.
Wait wait wait.. Have you played it? I play it, both my kids and ppl I work with play it. It has a huge modding community.
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Euro Truck Simulator $4.50 on Steam :P
http://store.steampowered.com/app/232010/ (http://store.steampowered.com/app/232010/)
(graphics look much better on the sequel, but it's $20)
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Euro Truck Simulator $4.50 on Steam :P
http://store.steampowered.com/app/232010/ (http://store.steampowered.com/app/232010/)
(graphics look much better on the sequel, but it's $20)
I've heard wonderful things about ETS2. Looks pretty cool.
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Euro Truck Simulator $4.50 on Steam :P
http://store.steampowered.com/app/232010/ (http://store.steampowered.com/app/232010/)
(graphics look much better on the sequel, but it's $20)
Thats for the ppl who dont get to drive one.
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I own the full game and love it. The shifter is a 3 position shifter, hi, low and reverse. Its not really usefull for anything else at all. I do actually need one as a post has broken on mine internally!