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Title: 360 Wireless Speed Wheel?
Post by: Howard_Casto on July 21, 2014, 08:29:59 pm
Are those guys useful for anything?  I say them on sale at big lots for 18 bucks, so I thought I would ask. 

I was thinking for a cheap lan party they would be good, but then again, you'd need a wireless receiver. 
Title: Re: 360 Wireless Speed Wheel?
Post by: SegaOutrun on July 21, 2014, 10:44:15 pm
from the comment section of a youtube vid showing it on the PC

RBR with Microsoft Wireless Speed Wheel on the PC (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNorXpyQujo#ws)

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I have the wheel, I can confirm it works great on PC (but not on all games because some detect it as a 360 pad and put a huge deadzone) and has NO lag whatsoever and a great precision


seems like a toss up.  you can usually find the official xbox wheel on craiglist for $25 to $50. thats seems like a better bet
Title: Re: 360 Wireless Speed Wheel?
Post by: Howard_Casto on July 21, 2014, 10:56:58 pm
I was thinking maybe for hacking purposes.  They were only 18 bucks at the Big Lots.  Now if they came with the adaptor that'd be a deal. 
Title: Re: 360 Wireless Speed Wheel?
Post by: SegaOutrun on July 22, 2014, 02:14:57 am
here's my wild idea. You could make a stand up arcade become a stealth racing arcade with this and some hacking. Instead having a fixed wheel in the middle of player 1 and player 2 like i do on my half and half arcade (ugly), you can have a detachable wheel that latches on to a spinning bolt to get more of a racing feel. Do you follow?

mine
(http://i.imgur.com/34GsfPX.jpg?1)

A wheel attachment like so in the center where you can attach and detach the wheel discreetly. Pull up a stool and you know have the best of both worlds. Full arcade and a steath racer for when you want to race.
(http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/ss219/Louis_Tully/Wii%20Mario%20Kart/20140704_082356.jpg)
Btw this is not mine. This is from https://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,138220.280.html (https://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,138220.280.html)
Title: Re: 360 Wireless Speed Wheel?
Post by: Howard_Casto on July 22, 2014, 02:36:03 am
Yeah that's more along the lines of what I was thinking.  They actually sell a wheel base for the wiimotes btw and because the market was over-saturated with wii plastic crap, you can get one for a song..... hmmm ... forget the 360 wheel, I might want to make a mount so I can use my rig with Mario kart 8.  ;)
Title: Re: 360 Wireless Speed Wheel?
Post by: SegaOutrun on July 22, 2014, 02:50:44 am
Thats an option. You could also mod the wii side of the wiiU with quadforce and get mario kart gp and f-zero Ax. but you would lose regular wii loading. Or just have a spare wii running quadforce, they are cheap now, you can find them on CL for 50$. i just picked up a spare wii from the goodwill online auction site for 55$ shipped with alot of extra stuff
Title: Re: 360 Wireless Speed Wheel?
Post by: Howard_Casto on July 22, 2014, 02:55:20 am
cow boom had wii's for 20 bucks today. 

I should have picked one up as my wii's drive is dead, but ah well. 
Title: Re: 360 Wireless Speed Wheel?
Post by: SegaOutrun on July 22, 2014, 03:11:16 am
no kidding. i would have pickup some spares. I just checked and they are sold out of the 20$ ones. 
Title: Re: 360 Wireless Speed Wheel?
Post by: BadMouth on July 22, 2014, 11:32:44 am
been tempted many times, but would have to buy the receiver...
Title: Re: 360 Wireless Speed Wheel?
Post by: Howard_Casto on July 22, 2014, 11:56:32 am
You can get the generic ones for about 8 bucks, sometimes less.  BUT if you were to use them in a LAN situation you'd need a receiver for each pc, so suddenly it isn't that much of a deal. 
Title: Re: 360 Wireless Speed Wheel?
Post by: Xiaou2 on July 28, 2014, 03:38:00 pm
No lag?  Accurate?   Highly suspect.

 Changing batteries every month... guaranteed.