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Geecab...

 Just a note about different Pedal Assemblies:

- PCs use a 10k pot,  and many of the assemblies might not even use Gearing on them.

- Arcade pedals use 5k pots,  and every one that Ive encountered, uses Gearing, to be able to spin the pot more per each pedal degree depression.

- Spy Hunter , is one of the more rare games that actually uses "10 turn" pots, and a very high gearing ratio, on both the steering and pedal assemblies

 Spy Hunter likely uses this setup, for a much higher resolution in its controls.

- Race Drivin also uses 10 turn pots on its steering wheel assy.  Its wheel can turn like 3 full rotations,  and its "Direct Drive" (no gearing).
- Race Drivin's pedals are a combination of geared Pots for the Gas, and a "Strain Gauge" (pressure sensor) for the brake pedal (I believe the brake also has
a geared pot.. and the strain gauge is read after the pedal is fully "floored".

 Gearing of his original Arcade pedals, may be causing a difference in Pot Values.
 Also... not sure if there is a rotational difference, between the arcades 5k pots, and PCs 10k pots.

One of the problems with certain motion sims, seems to be a lack of speed in their responses... likely also depending on their range of motion travel.

 The sitdown version of Outrun, suffered from this.   It was driven using a worm gear system...  and the motor speed, in combination with the
worm gear ratios... resulted in a slight delay, from what was happening on-screen.

 I had this idea to solve this... and not sure if its valid or not... but here goes...

 Rather than using a single Actuator, which will have a hard limit to its "inches per second"...   Imagine using Two actuators together, on the same axis leg.

Basically, if you had a 2 axis motion sim... which would typically use only 2 linear actuators..   Now it will use 4 actuators.

 I believe you should end up getting Double the Distance per Time Unit... as you are expanding 2 drivers on the same axis, at the same time.

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One axis would be mounted to the floor-base..  and the other, mounted to the platform... and both actuators connected together in the middle.

PL1 - Thanks for the comments. 

You are correct, I meant A-Pac (corrected in original post).  The A-Pac was calibrated in Windows (Game Controllers).  The pedal appears to be properly calibrated as the indicator smoothly travels from right to left as I press the pedal through its full range.

Hi xfassa!

When I read your post, like PL1, I thought it sounded like a windows calibration issue. As that's all OK, it sounds like something weird in my code. I'll dig out my analog pedal and report back soon

Hi GEECAB

Can't believe this is still a live thread in 2024!! I remember posting my delight at seeing this remake in 2015.... Bloody 9 years ago! (I feel so old!!). I've been outa the retro gaming scene for a while, but getting back into it. So glad this is still going strong. When I get chance I will defo DL the latest version and enjoy. Keep up the great work!

Many thanks RetroNutz! Welcome back and hope you enjoy the new version!

Checked the site over and sure enough they ended up having what I am needing so you saved me a lot of time head scratching and perhaps having to grab a 3rd mobo now lol

https://store.harbinrepairs.com/index.php/product/dell-5-6-pin-power-button-led-panel-adapter/

This is the one I bought:

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256806520979263.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.23.569c1802lrP5I9&gatewayAdapt=glo2usa

Time harvest makes them.   On a good sales event you can get 15%  off the order via coins and another 10-15% via coupons essentially eating up that $50 shipping fee.  I really like it.   They take a mv-1b board and flatten it out and solder it to two add-on modules that give it usb ports and composite/component and svideo out in addition to vanilla rgb.   The soldering on the boards looks really good and they do some quality-of-life improvements like replacing the ram and removing the cmos battery.   The whole deal is pretty turn-key and the usb functionality is nice as it allows you to use your favorite fight stick in addition to the original controllers.   I'm going to add a bettery back in with a plastic sealed battery holder to avoid acid mishaps.  Also they don't have a memory card slot so I'll eventually clip off the bios they've added (unibios 4.0 btw) and add a vmu and bios plug in unit they have on aliexpress for $40. 

I've converted a mvs board myself as well and while that still works this option is just cleaner and looks nicer.   

Also you might want to look at the poly game master.   It's essentially a mvs on steroids that was released in Tiawan towards the end of the mvs's life.   It's games you've never heard of that are of a similar quality to neogeo games.  They have a similar form factor and are just as easy to consolize.  I'm thinking about pulling the trigger.   

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805416951713.html?spm=a2g0o.cart.0.0.2e6b38daOcUGZ0&mp=1&gatewayAdapt=glo2usa

Due to the way the arm processors are used as security chips it's doubtful we'll ever get a banana cart but a lot of the games are cheap and there are some cave bootlegs.   

Darn, Figures it don't work for the SFF small form factor version of the 9020.

I didn't know they made things like that and will now search around some more in hopes for something compatible.

Thank you for the input.

https://www.houstonarcadeexpo.com/

Wang Chung is confirmed for Friday night.  As always, I can probably get you in free.  If I've met you at Zapcon you can crash at my house 4 miles away.

Last year they had a dude doing EDM remixes of NES music and someone in S&M gear doing robot covers of Sisters of Mercy songs.  Good stuff.

My recap from last year can be found here. 

https://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,168037.0.html

 

Good to see you around, Locke141.

CMVS just doesn't scratch the itch for me.  I got an AES and a few carts.  Not that I actually play them, but just looking at them makes me happy.  Then I got a NeoGeo CD to play stuff like Windjammers and I don't play that either.

Howard recently picked up a CMVS in an AES style shell and it was probably a wiser decision... but 12 year old me wouldn't be happy with it.

Does that supergun just have RGB out and what converter did you use with it?