Dragon's Lair Fans - Arcade Lifestyle
General Chat => Arcade Lifestyle => Topic started by: baritonomarchetto on June 27, 2011, 07:16:09 PM
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Hi all,
i am trying to figure out how Pole Position (and Pole Position 2) steering wheel works in MAME and in an original arcade. I know that the machine is equipped with an optical encoder (360°), not a pot, but in MAME it would be 100% compatible with a pot wheel if it wasn't for an autocenter effect that drives the machine straight even if the level of the joy is pressed. I am using MAME 0.106, maybe more recent versions are not affected by this problem.
My questions are:
- can someone confirm this effect in real arcades? I mean, is it necessary to continuosly turn the steering wheel in order to keep the car turning?
- can someone confirm that pole position (or PP2) can run in newer versions of MAME with a joystick (pot hardware)?
thank you very much ;D
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Pole Position with a joystick : yuck :P !
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Pole Position with a joystick : yuck :P !
no offence, but that was not the question ;D
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Etienne : hum, I spot the part 2 of the question ;D and it's no way for me :spaceace:.
You can't have the real feeling of the machine without the right wheel, for example :
(http://img2.uplood.fr/free/iccf_bbunderwheel.jpg)
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Hi.
I can only confirm, that it's necessary to continuosly turn the steering wheel in order to keep the car turning on the real machine, yes. The "autocentering" is a feature, not a bug. I can't answer the second question though. The only thing I know is, that you need an extra Mame-port to get the gear-shifting right. On the machine there is a micro switch, that is pressed for low-gear and released to switch in high gear (or vice versa ;)). In Mame you just toggel between gears with a button and (and that's most annoying) the gear-status (hi/low) is displayed all the time.
There was once a special Mame version for this problem ... I think it was ShifterMame or something ...
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Hi.
I can only confirm, that it's necessary to continuosly turn the steering wheel in order to keep the car turning on the real machine, yes. The "autocentering" is a feature, not a bug.
Thanks, this is exactly the info i was digging for (i never had the fortune to play an original machine :'()
The only thing I know is, that you need an extra Mame-port to get the gear-shifting right. On the machine there is a micro switch, that is pressed for low-gear and released to switch in high gear (or vice versa ;)). In Mame you just toggel between gears with a button and (and that's most annoying) the gear-status (hi/low) is displayed all the time.
This is for sure: i have a MAME cab for racing games i am working on a special MAME port for ;)... here is the link:
http://www.racermame.altervista.org (http://www.racermame.altervista.org)
I was planning to add PP and PP2 because they are very fun racers, but i will not since i wanna add games that can be handled by pot and opti wheels :-\
There was once a special Mame version for this problem ... I think it was ShifterMame or something ...
ShifterMAME was abandoned at ver. 0.125. It' very slow being based on MAME versions > 0.106
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interesting project baritonomarchetto... any plans to try to support shaking engine for outrun & powerdrift cabs?
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[...]any plans to try to support shaking engine for outrun & powerdrift cabs?
I am sorry but such a feature is not something i can implement :'(