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help with hacking some pedals
zaktallica:
So I have a final lap cabinet and I was going to make it into a racing cab with two universal madcatz wheels..Can someone please tell me a easy way to hack the pedals soI can use the original mounted metal pedals instead of the crappy plastic ones? Thanks
allroy1975:
I don't know anything about your game. To start with though:
what is inside your arcade pedals? is it a POT based thing? is it just a button that gets mashed down (like..you're either going or not, not going half speed by holding the pedal half way down) or is it optical?
I don't think there's a 3rd option. after you know that, you need to know what's in your Mad Catz controllers.
I just went through interfacing an optical interface (Steering Wheel) and a POT (pedal) in a dedicated Road Blasters I mamed.
maybe someone else wants to look up what you've got, or already knows. but i'm pretty lazy.
zaktallica:
im not sure I guess ill hafta take out the pedal and see im sure padcatz is pot based..I mean lets say there both pot based what would teh process be?
allroy1975:
I did it by hacking the pots on an old xbox controller I had laying around. Made it usb, loaded the drivers and did it up. if both are pot's you can probably just wire up the arcade one to the madcatz controller.
I might have just got lucky, but I think all I did is ran 2 wires from the outside (+5v and ground) connectors on the XBOX pot to the 2 outside on the Road Blasters pedal pot and then the middle (variable resistor or "signal" wire) from the xbox controller to the to the middle on the Road Blaster Pedal pot.
+5 is what my game pedal took according to my schematics:
http://www.crazykong.com/manuals/RoadBlasters.man.pdf (page 43 of the PDF)
+5 is easy to find in a USB device. so is ground.
zaktallica:
Well hacking aside ill decide if I wanna do later..Im having a hard time deciding how I want to mount this thing..Im going to post my set up and you guys let me know if you have any suggestions..Also if anyone has taken apart a madcatz wheel can you tell me if theirs a easy way to just disconnect the wheel without messing up to much stuff? Because I was thinking of just laying the wheel assembly behind the hole and attaching the wheel head/neck form the front.. Im also thinking of maybe trying to mount the madcatz shifter where the old shifter was..Please give me some ideas..
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