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Logitech Formula GP Steering Wheels
GGKoul:
Hello
I had one of this wheels and I was able to plug my PC version into my PS2 and it worked.
DrewKaree:
Paige, thanks for the Brain Fart BeanoTM, as I didn't even check MY OWN POST! or the info I HAVE SAVED ON MY FRIGGEN HD! *smacks forehead with heel of hand*. I've done this homework and forgot to even look!
Let me pose this question: Isn't a 360 wheel essentially a spinner with a steering wheel attached to it, or is there some vital part/assembly I'm not understading? I'd like to use an actual steering wheel, but I may just be a victim of overamitious brain activity on this.
I'm still considering picking up a few of these (the guy's willing to drop the price to $18/wheel). I think with a multi-monitor videocard (Matrox Parhelia?) I could send the game info out to multiple TV's, or at the very worst, I'd have a bunch of extras to scavenge parts from!
GameFreak, links all over this place, but here you go....first is Doug's HD Spinner.
http://www.doughansen.net/arcade/spinner.htm
http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=7753;start=msg55906#msg55906
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: drewkaree on February 26, 2004, 11:43:22 am ---Let me pose this question: Isn't a 360 wheel essentially a spinner with a steering wheel attached to it, or is there some vital part/assembly I'm not understading? I'd like to use an actual steering wheel, but I may just be a victim of overamitious brain activity on this.
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Not positive where you're going with this, but . . .
Yes basically, a 360 wheel is essentially a spinner with a steering wheel attached. They won't work well for 270 games and a 270 wheel won't work at all (generally) for 360 games.
Keep in mind that the shaft on a 360 wheel is usually thicker than a spinner would require to account for the added weight of a wheel as opposed to a knob.
--- Quote ---I'm still considering picking up a few of these (the guy's willing to drop the price to $18/wheel). I think with a multi-monitor videocard (Matrox Parhelia?) I could send the game info out to multiple TV's, or at the very worst, I'd have a bunch of extras to scavenge parts from!
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You could, but I'm not sure that gets you anywhere . . .
For console emulation, or for multi-player 270 games (if there are any), the game is set up to show both cars on the same screen (or MAME would modify it to), so all you are doing is having the freedom to physically separate the two wheels.
For single 270 games (OutRun), there's only one car, so you just end up with the guy on the left being able to fight with the guy on the right about which fork in the road the car will take.
bigmoe:
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--- Quote from: bigmoe on February 25, 2004, 06:18:56 pm ---Any advantage to buying these as opposed to using a PS2 wheel with an adapter?
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Well, you typically need one PS/2-USB adapter per wheel.
Only thing I can think of is price for multiple wheels - for a 4-wheel example (Mario Kart above) -
Logitech - 4 x $20 = $80.
PS/2 Wheel - (4 x $20 wheel) + (4 x $15 adapter) = $140
Another thing is that the wheels and pedals work with this set-up and I'm not sure if that would be true with multiple PS/2 wheels with USB adapters.
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Never know quite what to believe in the brag sheets of those PS2 USB adapters...and the pedals would be...important.
Not sure I'd bother w/ MarioKart...using this math, 1 PC wheel and 2 PS2 wheels would be about $60...or $80 for two of each...thanks for the input!
paigeoliver:
Bump N Jump is an 8-way joystick game actually.
Badlands, and all other Sprint type games use 360 wheels (had a Badlands in my apartment until recently).
And networked 270 games (which are VERY common) don't really count because #1 Mame doesn't seem to support that anyway, and #2 if it did it would just do it mega widescreen, which would look terrible.
--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on February 26, 2004, 06:47:30 am ---
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on February 26, 2004, 06:39:53 am ---Also, if you are just buying for Mame (not Mario Kart), then as far as I know there aren't any 270 games with more than two wheels. Actually, I can't even think of a 270 game with more than one wheel.
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I think there might have been some networked games (Suzuka 8hrs), Daytona USA, that were multiple 270 wheels.
Also, I'm not sure if Badlands, and Bump N Jump, etc. were 360 or 270, probably 360, though.
Not sure if MAME allows two wheels for this, or if you'd have to use something like Killerera (sp?) in which case you're back to single 270 wheels per PC.
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