Emulator and games are specially designed to work properly. Oh well, it was pretty thrashed anyway. A't it will be a commentary on the game or our website. I think so, as long as there is a slight gap between releasing one switch and hitting the next, so it does not appear as one long keypress. I think I got it dialed in now. I set my G27 to 200 degrees rotation and it works great with Pole Position, with almost no deadzone. I'll toss up a picture when I get back home tonight.
Here are some pictures from last night, the first being the entire setup cobbled together in my shop and the second a close up of the new guts for my cabinet. I spent today pulling things together, which is a far bigger operation than it would initially seem. So that means the game thinks my wheel is at 0 degrees, when it's actually, physically, is at 100 degrees. I'm going to change the pedal to button based instead of pot based but still leave everything in tact. I suppose it's equivalent to a board swap in a normal arcade cabinet but it's done faster and through software. Here's the control panel rework.
I want to use all the existing stuff for controls, so I'm going to need to hack the steering wheel. Pedals and shifter can go through the mouse buttons, that way the primary controls are all on the same line. I'll take more pictures in the coming days but here are a couple. Quick post since I'm pretty tired. I'm planning on begining work on the cabinet itself on Tuesday and hopefully by the end of the week I'll be piecing things back together. Turbo uses this setup too.
. This is hard to explain, but I'll try. I also love Championship Sprint and this is the right setup for that game as well. Yes, it's outside still, it'll be out there until I move next year. Here's the accelerator pedal assembly after being restored and converted.
I will say however that it's pretty damn enjoyable to stand outside in the night air and turn laps around Fuji Speedway. Has anybody used one of these to wire up a Pole Position Steering Wheel using the existing optic board on the steering wheel? What would possibly be better is a microswitch that is only momentarily hit, when shifting either up or down. So out everything came with the exception of the control surfaces as the cabinet itself and the control panel are in great condition. Of course I have the same questions about the accelerator pedal. I will find out when I get to make my steering wheel panel! It also means that I can try Ridge Racer with my wheel setup.
I was about to toss it until I picked up this cab. From a technical standpoint Pole Position was very poorly engineered for lasting in the long haul. Simply type in the number next to the corresponding game, and it loads up. I spent this evening after work getting my menu system set up and the initial configuration for each game completed. Not like the other web sites that offer thousands dysfunctional games, which I personally just as surely as you hate. I've been using it outside the cabinet on the floor of my shop for about a week now and have had absolutely no problems. Okay, finally got around to getting a mouse hack from OscarControls with the spinner wiring harness.
The entire keyboard will be inside the coin door, however. The emulators plays the original discs too right? Nothing will be different from how it was in the arcade. From the little research I have done I think some at least are not. Anybody know if the sounds haven't been emulated correctly or is it something I'm doing? Things work great although I still need to cut a new carboard interior bezel. I decided against using the original optics due to age and wear, again, throughout the entire machine.
They are wired into the joystick hack. It runs to a molex connector which ties it to the control panel encoder mouse hack. Dealing with the cable system on the accelerator pedal is a p. From a technical standpoint Pole Position was very poorly engineered for lasting in the long haul. If it was working or was in a repairable without replaceable state then I would have restored it.
This is all around easier, won't require an A-Pac, and besides - I can play Pole Position fine pumping the accelerator lightly in hard turns. There's a little wear to the control panel and of course cigarette burns all over the place above it but the graphics are nice. After that it was installation time. There was a factory mod to wire up a simple switch, but you need to have some resistance on it you can use the potentiometer if it's good. I don't want to toss down that kind of cash though. After all, I spent almost two hours playing tonight in the cobbled together state in the picture above.
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