Anyone got a mame racing cab?

[chubsta]

AS some great racers are now emulated - ridge racer/virtua racing etc - i was wondering if anyone had a mame set-up purely for racing?

Im interested in doing one myself and was wondering how easy it was to set up stuff like pedals and steering wheel in mame?

[AeroCityMayor]

In the 6 or so years I've been into MAME, I've not yet seen a convincing or decent go at a driving cab.

Good luck, and if you manage to do it without severe hackerage, please post the results, I'd be EXTREMELY interested to see the results.

[AeroCityMayor]

How would you propose to interface the controls with the PC???

[ROBO84]

I've put MAME into an old Crusin World cab, what do you need to know?????

[andygeezer]

Pointless IMO, unless you want to play 80's drivers.

[ROBO84]

Pointless IMO, unless you want to play 80's drivers.

Just aswell I like Outrun then!! anyhoo it was a little project to see what could be done, I like the look of the M2 emu so I might have a look into that in a cab at some point, the main problem with that at the moment is my old Mame pc ain't really up to it.

[andygeezer]

Driving games are something that need the proper cab, with the feedback steering and such (it is what makes the totally different experience to console games

12/24dc motor versus 500W Servo motor (0.5bhp)

[ROBO84]

Your dead right, the proper sitdown dedicated cabs are the best way, but out of the reach of most of us price wise, the old cab that I used runs either a Ridge Racer 2 board, or I can drop the pc bits in and have a go on Outrun, both are good fun. It's a shame that there wasn't a driving game equivalent of Jamma, if cabs had the same wheel peddles and shifters, with a common feedback system so it was a Jamma style board swap to change games rather then change controls and re-wire the cab that would have been good!!

Still none of these games were intended for home use, so nice a cheap system for people with cabs in the garage probably wasn't that high up the list!!

[joeblade]

Reflects whimsically of the days of Outrun, Power Drift, Chase HQ, Roadblasters, Pole Position.......

[andygeezer]

Okay people.

Since I've playing with Ford Racing, I shold be able to demo today playing El Semi's Model 2 emulator (Sega Rally 1/Daytona 1) in an JVS Cab (without butchering any cables), so it can still run Initial D1/2/3/OR2/ etc.

So it could be a dream multi-cab for people who want both worlds.

The interface is UGCI 2.03 with bespoke wiring solution, around £125 for both.

[joeblade]

sounds interesting...would like to see it running...

[markedkiller78]

As would I

would this work with feedback & whatnot?

[andygeezer]

I've had Daytona 1/SR1 linked etc..

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7N4tK0EtXoQ"

Ford Racing PCB stack hasn't enough grunt power for 100% though, it is only a 2.66GHZ CeleronD after all..

[joeblade]

mmm.....
If the speed issue could be addressed & you got these working mint, this could be the new "garlic bread"...

prob is im sure there's a **** loada other issues too..

[andygeezer]

mmm.....
If the speed issue could be addressed & you got these working mint, this could be the new "garlic bread"...

prob is im sure there's a **** loada other issues too..

Well emulation is never going to be a 100%

Daytona USA 1 is about as close as you can get to the arcade pcb (i'd say it as a close as MAME Pacman).

Does look nicer than the arcade if you enable all the filtering, but the feedback missing is the worst thing..

You can get Ford Racing on faster CPU so you could make a better PC machines..

[markedkiller78]

No feeback = poop

That's a pitty. Is it something that's not been emulated?

[andygeezer]

No feeback = poop

That's a pitty. Is it something that's not been emulated?

They emulate it for PC hardware, but it will never exist for Sega drive boards sadly...

[joeblade]

No feeback = poop

That's a pitty. Is it something that's not been emulated?

Indeed...oh well back to the drawing board....looks again at over priced 3 screen forza2 racing seat & porsche wheel shizzle!!

[Xenepp]

I am still suprised about the FFB on my Ferrari wheel with this emulator. I got the thing at a boot sale for a whopping £1 and can honestly say it's the coolest thing I ever played on a PC. Worked great with M2.

-Joel