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Title: How to hack steering controls to an XBox?
Post by: unclet on May 28, 2003, 01:47:34 pm: I have a few steering controls (Spy Hunter steering wheel, Sega HangOn motorcycle assembly and a Star Wars yoke) and was wondering whether anyone knew how to attach these to an Xbox so I could play the XBox driving games with them. I mean instead of buying an off-the-shelf Xbox-specific steering wheel/pedals control assembly, I would like to use real arcade parts....

Any ideas or links explaining if this could be done?

Just curious,
UncleT
Title: Re:How to hack steering controls to an XBox?
Post by: Howard_Casto on May 28, 2003, 04:26:00 pm: The only way to do it is to buy an xbox steering wheel and hack it. Sorry man but if you want to do that then you are going to have to buy the wheel. :)
Title: Re:How to hack steering controls to an XBox?
Post by: AX on May 28, 2003, 04:29:35 pm: in theory you should be able to buy the happ usb interface or equivaent and hack the usb connection over to an xbox contoller connector using and extension cable. the xbox has native usb. Now i have not done this with a wheel but have done it with a keyboard.
Title: Re:How to hack steering controls to an XBox?
Post by: Beley on May 28, 2003, 05:04:50 pm: You could do it by hacking a normal xbox gamepad and desoldering the pots on joysticks/triggers, then running the wires directly for the pot(s) in the sterring wheel to the where to pots hooked up in the xbox gamepad

of course this will only work properly if the pot(s) in the stering wheel are close to the same value as the ones removed for the xbox gamepad
Title: Re:How to hack steering controls to an XBox?
Post by: unclet on May 28, 2003, 07:05:21 pm: Does an XBox controller have two potentiometers inside?
I saw a controller and could not be certain they had some pots inside.

Also, do the XBox pedals have pots in them?

Regards,
UncleT
Title: Re:How to hack steering controls to an XBox?
Post by: Beley on May 28, 2003, 11:00:11 pm: Quote from: unclet on May 28, 2003, 07:05:21 pm
Does an XBox controller have two potentiometers inside?
I saw a controller and could not be certain they had some pots inside.

Also, do the XBox pedals have pots in them?

Regards,
UncleT

it acually has 6, 2 for each joystick, and one for each trigger

by pedal do you mean trigger(the 2 "buttons" on the unserside of the pad)?
Title: Re:How to hack steering controls to an XBox?
Post by: Pyronious on May 29, 2003, 03:16:27 am: You should also be aware that the A, B, X, Y, Black and White buttons on the Xbox controller are pressure sensitive and send an 8-bit digital word back to the Xbox to tell it how hard it's being pressed.

The analog sticks and the two triggers have 16-bit resolution.

Patrick
Title: Re:How to hack steering controls to an XBox?
Post by: Howard_Casto on May 30, 2003, 02:13:34 am: Quote from: AX on May 28, 2003, 04:29:35 pm
in theory you should be able to buy the happ usb interface or equivaent and hack the usb connection over to an xbox contoller connector using and extension cable. the xbox has native usb. Now i have not done this with a wheel but have done it with a keyboard.

How would this help as there aren't drives for a keyboard or mouse in xbox games? For mame yes, but the poster never said he wanted to use mame he said driving games. :)
Title: Re:How to hack steering controls to an XBox?
Post by: AX on May 30, 2003, 10:20:52 am: you guys keep saying that but i have no problem using my keyboard in a game. although its a pain it does work.