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Title: Nitronic! Put this in your arcade racing cab and...drive it
Post by: Generic Eric on June 20, 2012, 09:29:33 pm
Nitronic Rush: Commander Update (#4) Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbM8f5W14Yw#ws)

Found this on reddit, thought I'd share http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/vcdn0/nitronic_rush_a_remake_of_the_turbo_tunnel_from/ (http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/vcdn0/nitronic_rush_a_remake_of_the_turbo_tunnel_from/)

I played it for a short while on the keyboard.  There are some special keys that might make it a little difficult to translate.   I'd like to hear from others what they think overall of the game.  
Title: Re: Nitronic! Put this in your arcade racing cab and...drive it
Post by: Le Chuck on June 21, 2012, 01:54:42 am
Looks pretty awesome to me.  No driving cab tho.  May need to start remedying that.
Title: Re: Nitronic! Put this in your arcade racing cab and...drive it
Post by: Generic Eric on June 21, 2012, 07:16:37 am
Nitronic Rush: Commander Update (#4) Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbM8f5W14Yw#ws)

Found this on reddit, thought I'd share http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/vcdn0/nitronic_rush_a_remake_of_the_turbo_tunnel_from/ (http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/vcdn0/nitronic_rush_a_remake_of_the_turbo_tunnel_from/)

I played it for a short while on the keyboard.  There are some special keys that might make it a little difficult to translate for a driving cab though.  I'd like to hear from others what they think overall of the game.  

Title: Re: Nitronic! Put this in your arcade racing cab and...drive it
Post by: BadMouth on June 21, 2012, 09:01:20 am
I played it for a short while on the keyboard.  There are some special keys that might make it a little difficult to translate.   I'd like to hear from others what they think overall of the game.  

I'll try to find time to install it this weekend.  Logitech profiler, xpadder, or autohotkey should be able to post anything as keys...as long as the controls are analogue, it should work.
Title: Re: Nitronic! Put this in your arcade racing cab and...drive it
Post by: gamer2112 on June 21, 2012, 09:06:16 am
Reminds me of that old game MegaRace. Cool Tron art style!
Title: Re: Nitronic! Put this in your arcade racing cab and...drive it
Post by: RyoriNoTetsujin on June 23, 2012, 09:39:42 am
Oh. Hell. Yes.

Looks like Trackmania on some Tron flavored acid! If I can get to it this weekend, I'll set it up on my g27 wheel and post my findings.
Title: Re: Nitronic! Put this in your arcade racing cab and...drive it
Post by: drventure on June 23, 2012, 09:50:05 am
Works great with a logitech xbox compatible controller, though the controls can be a bit twitchy. But I suspect pretty much all driving games can be twitchy using a standard game controller. A wheel should be quite a bit better.

Also,it picked up on the controller and worked right out of the box, no playing with settings at all.
Title: Re: Nitronic! Put this in your arcade racing cab and...drive it
Post by: brad808 on June 23, 2012, 06:34:26 pm
That game looks awesome. I'm working on a monitor swap in my driving cab right now and as soon as I fire it up I'm going to try playing this.
Title: Re: Nitronic! Put this in your arcade racing cab and...drive it
Post by: RyoriNoTetsujin on June 24, 2012, 10:20:06 am
Ok so I've spent about an hour tinkering with it this morning, and it is DEFINITELY fun with the g27 wheel!

I've got to mess around with the steering sensitivity a bit, but I've got all driving functions running quite well between a combination of the Logitech Profiler and the xbox360 controller emulator program I found here: http://code.google.com/p/x360ce/ (http://code.google.com/p/x360ce/)

For some reason configuring the right stick in x360ce doesn't seem to work (looks like a known issue?) so I kludged the keyboard commands for pitch/roll into the Profiler (since they're not based on analog axes anyway) and they work fine. Lucky that the Profiler and x360ce can run concurrently without issue...

Currently, I've mapped the roll controls to the paddle shifters. Pitch (front/backflip), boost, jump and wings to the remaining face buttons on the wheel -- though I'm thinking pitch might be better served on the shifter module, since that's otherwise not used...

What a nice change of pace! Great addition to any racing cab, I should think. And big huge kudos to the kids at Digipen for doing it from scratch!  :cheers:
Title: Re: Nitronic! Put this in your arcade racing cab and...drive it
Post by: Le Chuck on June 24, 2012, 11:35:18 am
Anybody else look at this and immediately think, I need to hook pedals up to my SW yoke?  Seems like this would be a good controller setup for this game.  Thoughts?
Title: Re: Nitronic! Put this in your arcade racing cab and...drive it
Post by: Generic Eric on June 24, 2012, 05:08:57 pm
Anybody else look at this and immediately think, I need to hook pedals up to my SW yoke?  Seems like this would be a good controller setup for this game.  Thoughts?

I thought that too!   It would be cool to have a hat switch in place of the left thumb switch.   I also thought about using a shifter with the thumb button for boost & forward/reverse.