Madcatz wheel, using PSx / USB in mame?

[Mikee0]

Hello , Ok I have an old Mad catz wheel for a PS1 and i want to use it in MAME , will this work through a USB/PSX converter?

[Silver]

Should do I think - if the converter lets it work in windows, then it will work in mame. (in theory). Do a search for "driving controls" - its a bit more complicated than it first appears.

 Arcade driving games use wither a 360 degree wheel (free spinning, does not return to centre - super sprint, pole position, super off road etc..) or a 270 degree whell (doesn't turn full circle, returns to centre - spy hunter, roadblasters, outrun) and apparantly using one with the other does not work well. Your psx wheel will be a 270 (I believe) and should work with those games.

Having said that I don't use psx kit on a pc, so I'm assuming there is a driver that works in windows that is used with the converter box to allow it appear as an input device that windows recognises.

[Lilwolf]

I use my actlabs steering wheel with a psx->usb converter (because I couldn't get the gameport carts to work).

Anyway, it works fine in mame.  But I found that they conversion defaults didn't work well in some PC games..

And that sucks because PC driving games are really better then most emulated driving games (that work on a real system).

[SNAAAKE]

Just psx wheels should work fine but universel one won't(yes tried).

[Sylentwulf]

These 2 are compatible with EVERYTHING (Wheels, dance pads, controllers, first and third party)
http://www.electricquarter.com/psjoy.htm
http://www.electricquarter.com/ps2dualcont.htm


These 2 work with controllers, the support for dancepads and other peripherals have been mixed, some work, some don't depends on the game, system, and peripheral.
http://www.electricquarter.com/psusb.htm
http://www.electricquarter.com/ps2quadcont.htm

Hope that helps!

[Mikee0]

Thanks for the replys and links , I ordered a PSx to USB should be a couple of days.

I'll post the outcome after its arrival.

Too bad about the Pc games , was looking forward to some   NFS Hot pursuit.

[Mikee0]

also what about the pedals , do you guys think they will work? if no one knows I'll post the results I get the dongle.

thanks.

[Sylentwulf]

It really all comes down to wether the drivers you use, and most importantly, the SOFTWARE/GAME you use full support it.

[SNAAAKE]

The button pedal registers as buttons so yeah they will work.I have a crappy ps1 steering wheel and I did test it out.Worked fine

[Mikee0]

cool, no doubt after a week or 2 using a 270 i will be wanting to open up and attach an optical to read the shafts rotation, try making it a 360 .

[MrBond]

cool, no doubt after a week or 2 using a 270 i will be wanting to open up and attach an optical to read the shafts rotation, try making it a 360 .

Does this spoil the 270 functionality?  ie having the wheel turn back to neutral position?