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Dedicted driving cab - need ideas or lessons learned
shess:
Sorry to hijack the thread momentarily, but I've got a 4-speed shifter and a 360 wheel in the forsale section if anyone's interested in adding one to their cab. Now back to your regularly scheduled topic.
Thanks,
Scott
RickDIII:
--- Quote from: ratabase1 on November 07, 2006, 12:22:37 pm ---I added two buttons on top the cabinet for ESC and Pause. I added two buttons above the coin door, a player 1 start button and a credit button. I added two buttons to the my control panel, one for a Turbo button and one for Fire. One recommendation is you may want to replace your HI/LO shifter with a 4-way shifter. I replaced mine with a 4-way. You can still use one side of the 4 way to act as a HI/LO shifter. As far as the brake pedal goes, I didn't add one. I can't say that I'd actually use one in a game. If you want to slow down, just let off the gas.
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This is very similar to the way I intended to head. I didn't think the hi/low would cut it...and I don't think I have ever actually used the brake in any driving games.
--- Quote ---If I did do it again - I'd go with an xbox solution and a sit down cab. Check out TheCoders cab in the project announcements section
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I initially headed down the sit down cab path...then I realized how difficult it was going to be just to convince my wife we "have room" for another standup. I could consider an xbox option though... something to think about.
Anybody have opinions on the pros/cons of keeping a 270 vs going to a 360 wheel? ???
shess:
All racing games can use a 360 wheel but 360 games can't use a 270 wheel. Plus I believe a 270 wheel needs a little bit more fanagling to get working via the Dual Strike hack or something else. A 360 wheel can use a mouse hack pretty easily in dos/windows/anything that supports a mouse.
Scott
divemaster127:
im in the process of putting together a set down racing cab, with 3 cps, 1 mame w/360 wheel, 1 xbox & 1 space cp, im still trying to decide between a star wars yok & a happ flight stick...im going to go all out, racing seat from happ etc
dm
RickDIII:
--- Quote from: shess on November 07, 2006, 01:58:19 pm ---All racing games can use a 360 wheel but 360 games can't use a 270 wheel. Plus I believe a 270 wheel needs a little bit more fanagling to get working via the Dual Strike hack or something else. A 360 wheel can use a mouse hack pretty easily in dos/windows/anything that supports a mouse.
Scott
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Thanks - exactly what I needed to know.
As I think about the xbox idea, I start to like it more and more. I don't have any more "extra" pc's and with the cost of a used xbox in the gutter since the 360s came out it might be cheaper to put one of those in.
DM - Do you have your sit down in the project section? I want to see pics when finished!
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