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Racing Bartop?
CoryBee:
Just wanted to throw out an idea.
What do you fine fellows think about a bartop with a steering wheel. Just for racing games. I saw a hack on YouTube where they made a cheap 360 steering wheel using a ball mouse inards. Anyways, has this been done before? The bartop part not the hack. Thanks.
CoryBee:
Also I figure if it has the wheel you might as well attach pedals to it too. Perhaps through a 3.5mm headphone jack cable and jack. :dunno
BadMouth:
I think 360 degree would be the way to go for a bartop so you don't have the force of someone pushing the wheel against the stops.
Generic Eric had a cheap little wheel bought off ebay where you just strapped a mouse to the steering shaft.
You may want to see what pedals you find to use before deciding on a connector.
Sometimes you can find orphaned pedals that were part of a pc wheel combo cheap.
The old logitech ones use a telephone jack (whatever that's called).
The newer ones use a serial port jack (whatever that's called).
You'd have to buy an A-Pac to interface the pedals though.
There were a few old arcade pedals that were optical.
That could be hacked into the other axis of the mouse hack or a basic Opti-Wiz is only $15.
If it is going to sit on an actual bar, having pedals might be awkward. :P
Just a heads up......driving setups aren't like joystick setups where you can drop in a bunch of roms and have thousands of games to play instantly.
Every game needs to have the sensetivity set individually to play correctly.
Some games will need to have the pedals inverted, some won't.
This won't be something you can make cheap and fast to sell.
Just my $.02
CoryBee:
I hear you on the price thing, was something I would want to keep. I also didn't think about the sensitivity of a pedal press, figured it would be like a button press...then again like I said didn't think it through.
There are not that many games I would want on a setup like this so that would be okay.
BadMouth:
--- Quote from: CoryDee on October 26, 2012, 01:29:46 pm ---I hear you on the price thing, was something I would want to keep. I also didn't think about the sensitivity of a pedal press, figured it would be like a button press...then again like I said didn't think it through.
There are not that many games I would want on a setup like this so that would be okay.
--- End quote ---
The games are playable with just a switch in the pedal, but you won't get as far in some of them.
You lose time in Pole Position if you don't have an analogue pedal because the tires squeal and the car doesn't take off a quickly.
I always just mashed the pedal anyway.
In the driving cab info thread, there is a link to a spreadsheet where you can see how many playable games used a 360 degree wheel and if they had analogue or digital pedals.
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