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horseboy:

--- Quote from: Senmet on April 26, 2006, 12:29:51 am ---
I will be using Mama Wawa as my front end and use arcade music box with the RadLight Ogg Media project so i can watch my ogm vidoes

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Well, you made a wise choice. Mama Wawa is spectacular, and we owe all the thanks to MinaWawa. He is a genius.  :notworthy:

Gunstar Hero:
Uhhhh... Does Mama Wawa = Mamewah?  ???

Senmet:
Yes Mama Wawa = Mamewah i'm a newbee and my spell sick :P and BFG was a miss type it was to be BFA Big F*&* Arcade becoust i will be doing a Showcase cabinet :P

Kremmit:
Hey, wow, you did your homework!   :applaud:

There's no wheel that will do all the MAME games and all the console games.  Many arcade games used a free-spinning, 360 degree wheel.  Others used a wheel that only turns partway around the circle, commonly referred to as a 270 degree wheel.  PC and console wheels are of the 270 degree variety.  If you go with the 360, forget about console useage, they use totally different technology and cannot be converted.  They're also really only useful for the MAME games that originally used them- trying to play a 270 degree game with a 360 degree wheel is less than satisfactory.

If you go with the 270, a PC wheel can be made to work with MAME and probably your console emulators, but I don't know if there are any wheels out there that can be plugged into both the PC and your real consoles, or if there are any multi-console wheels, or any adapters that support wheels.  I'd poke around places like lik-sang and see what's available in the steering wheel market.

pointdablame:

--- Quote from: Kremmit on April 26, 2006, 02:59:12 am ---Hey, wow, you did your homework!   :applaud:

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agreed, good job :)

You can also use your trackball as a mouse for your PC, so that remote may not be necessary.  Although, in your case, with you playing videos and media a lot, it will probably come in handy.  Just a thought though.

Kremmit summed up wheels pretty well.  If you really wanted "everything" you could get a 270 wheel and try to get it to work with PC and consoles, and then use a spinner for the 360 racing games in MAME.  Spinners work decently enough in those games... they aren't real wheels of course, but they get the job done.  Also, I know that some Logitech wheels will work on PC and Playstation 2 with the USB ports on older Playstations.  Getting it to work on the other consoles may be a bit tricky.

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