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Title: Road Blaster yoke
Post by: wbassett on June 19, 2016, 02:26:37 pm

Can a Road Blaster yoke be converted to work as a Star Wars yoke?

Title: Re: Road Blaster yoke
Post by: Nephasth on June 19, 2016, 02:53:58 pm

Nope.

Title: Re: Road Blaster yoke
Post by: PL1 on June 19, 2016, 03:18:33 pm

Quote from: u_rebelscum on September 12, 2002, 05:25:22 am

Road Blasters used an optical mechanical (mouse type) sensor, while Star Wars used POTs (analog joystick type), and mame emulates it like that (RB uses a DIAL, SW uses a AD_STICK)   Also, RB didn't use the Y axis, unless someone hacked it to take the place of the foot pedal.

While they look similar, the 1-axis optical steering wheel from Road Blasters will not easily convert to a 2-axis potentiometer yoke like Star Wars.

There are a number of yokes that you can use (or easily adapt) for Star Wars -- check out the list of (analog joystick) yoke games in the right column here (http://newwiki.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?title=Joysticks#Analog_Joysticks).   :droid
(definitely avoid Paperboy and Two Tigers yokes)


Scott

Title: Re: Road Blaster yoke
Post by: ChadTower on June 20, 2016, 01:49:15 pm

The real problem is that generally the controllers that can be converted for Star Wars are actually more expensive than a Star Wars yoke.  Try finding a Paperboy controller now.  Yikes.

Title: Re: Road Blaster yoke
Post by: nitrogen_widget on June 24, 2016, 02:35:23 pm

Quote from: wbassett on June 19, 2016, 02:26:37 pm

Can a Road Blaster yoke be converted to work as a Star Wars yoke?

Somewhere (possibly on this site) I saw someone use a generic yoke as a starwars yoke by mounting the yoke to a control panel that hinged out to create a 2nd axis.