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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: destructor on September 25, 2006, 08:55:20 am
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Hello,
I search infos about Sanwa's steering wheel.
(http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/7859/sanwaswmi7.th.jpg) (http://img56.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sanwaswmi7.jpg)
I made this photo from newest Sanwa catalogue.
It looks very interesting but:
1. Is it 360 degrees or not?
2. Is possible to connect this steering wheel to PC or console? I f yes then how?
3. How to connect 2 low-high sticks to PC or console if it's possible?
4. How to connect gas pedal?
5. How works gas pedal? Is it analog?
6. What is price for it?
7. What is catalogue code for it?
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Maybe someone knows something more about this steering wheel and accesories?
Can someone translate text from this photo?
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No need to translate the text from the photo.....
That's a standard 270 degree Sanwa arcade wheel. The same wheel, pedals and gear shifters are listed by Happs Suzo....
Take a look at: http://www.suzo.com/cataloguefiles/20.pdf (http://www.suzo.com/cataloguefiles/20.pdf)
Although it is also available as a 360....but you would have trouble interfacing that one.
No, you can not connect it directly to a PC. It has arcade rated POT's on it. You could change the pots for ones of the same value you get in PC joysticks and solder the wires to a D connector, then it would plug into a PC. But this will be a very very expensive item. If you have loads of money to spare then go for it!
Yes the pedal is analog.... again you would need to change the POT's and wire it into the D Plug.
The high low sticks are switched.... they just have a microswitch for the high and low position. So you could wire those to your keyboard encoder switch inputs for use in Mame.
Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
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Thanks. Not good news :(
EDIT
Someone knows what 360 degrees steering wheel is possible to connect to PC? With pedal and stick otherwise (stick is smallest problem).
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It's not necessary to change the pots on a 270 wheel- the AKI (http://dave.bit2000.com/aki.html) and the A-Pac (http://www.ultimarc.com/a-pac.html) both will work with arcade pots.
360 wheels aren't hard to interface, either. A 360 wheel is nothing more than a big spinner. A mouse hack (http://mamewah.mameworld.net/mousehack.htm), OptiPac (http://www.ultimarc.com/optipac1.html), or Opti-Wiz (http://groovygamegear.com/webstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=260) will do the job nicely.