Can I use a PC-USB Wheel & pedals with mame?

[MrPoPo]

Hi !!

I want to plug a wheel with pedals to my arcade machine, and I don't know if a simple PC-USB wheel works with it.
I'm using Win98 with mame command line version.

Is there any problem?
And the force-feedback function?

[TheTick]

Force feedback won't function.
The rest will, just enable joystick support and make sure the analog axis are config'd to match the wheel vs the pedals.

[djsting]

Could you put that in English for us less literate MAME fans?  What do I have to do to get it to work?  I have one too and want to use it for games like Pole Position, Spy Hunter, etc.

[u_rebelscum]

Could you put that in English for us less literate MAME fans?  What do I have to do to get it to work?  I have one too and want to use it for games like Pole Position, Spy Hunter, etc.

1) Install wheel and drivers into windows
2) Enable joysticks in mame
3) Play*  **


*  PC steering wheel work well on games with "Paddle" or "AD stick" inputs in mame input UI (you know, the tab - "Input (this game)").  So games like Spy Hunter that used "270^o wheels" will be fine.  However if the input is "dial", PC wheels aren't that good.  So games that had "360^o wheels", such as SuperSprint or PolePosition, will play about as well as will a keyboard.  360^o wheels are common on the older, usually top view, games; 270^o wheels are common on the newer, usually behind the wheel, games.  BTW, hint on 360^o games: spinner.


**  The wheel needs to be mapped to the correct inputs.  If the wheel is the only joystick plugged in, usually you can just play as-is, although sometimes you need to assign the hardware pedal(s) as the input for mame's "pedal" type input(s).  OTOH, if the wheel is not the only joystick plugged in, you'll probably have to remap the wheel inputs to the player 1 inputs, since the defualt mapping is "joy 1 == player 1", "joy 2 == player 2", ect.  Read the mame.net FAQ, easyemu, and the text files in the "docs" mame folder on remapping if you don't know how.  Personally, I like using the ctrlr ini files instead of the in game input UI, but .... *shrug*.