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fnord12:
Thanks!  Looks cool, but intimidating to me since i'm just using MameUI/Mame32 as my front-end.  But i will check it out and see if i can get it working.

cbr00ks:
"I'd be willing to pull together everything I've learned into a stickied driving cab thread or wiki if there is enough interest.
I'd want others to weigh in though and let me know if they disagree with anything."

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This would be great!

I have both a 360 (optical) and a 270 (potentiometer) wheel (arcade/Happ). About a year ago I decided that I wanted a dedicated racing cab for MAME. I use a stand-up 1,000 Mile Rally cab (i.e. w/ one pedal at the bottom). Through the course of working w/ it I've become familiar with both the Opti Pac (360) and APAC (270).

Arcade racing game emulation can be tricky. BadMouth makes an excellent point when it comes to the current capacity that MAME has when it comes to newer (3D) racing games. Before I set off on my project these were the games that came to mind first (e.g. Ridge Racer, etc.) as motivators to get started.

Luckily, I'm old enough that I simply turned my attention to great classic games such as Out Run (and Turbo Out Run), All the Sprint games, etc. Even with these I was forced to come up w/ different work-arounds since my CP had only the steering wheel and two (micro) switches (one on the right, one on the left).

The Sprint games require buttons for gears 1, 2, 3, 4 and many of the other ones used hi/lo shifters. Some of the shifters also used a turbo button integrated in the knob/handle. Needless to say there is a definite hardware side when it comes to emulating racing games.

Beyond this there is plenty of tweaking and adjusting when it comes to the sensitivity of the controls in MAME. I'm still trying to find what works best for (Sega) Turbo....and games like Spy Hunter and Road Blasters were originally unique in terms of their hardware which make for more discrepancies towards perfect emulation.

I hope to come across someone selling a used sit-down cab - i.e. in a "project" state. I've been keeping my eyes peeled for over a year but can only seem to find expensive restorations (e.g. Pole Position) and newer racing games (way out of my price range). Topping this off I don't have much when it comes to construction space and tools if I wanted to build one from scratch....


 

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