Poll: Wheel or Keyboard?

[Ayce]

Is that an original red Momo, Elcy? or just no available usb ports.

I found an old Logi Driving Force (blue) for $25, that works better than the Sector 7 (usb,PS), but no FF as there's no power supply. Hoping to find one, one of these days.

[83 Elcy]

No it's one of the newer MOMO Racing ones, just needed to clear up some spots on the surge protector and move some junk on the desk around.

Got it all setup for a run on VHR and it wouldn't get any power, don't guess I'm gonna use it anyways lol.

Need to try and get a new PS sometime, see if that helps. The lack of FFB would drive me crazy.

[inuchan187]

Originally Posted by Ayce

Is that an original red Momo, Elcy? or just no available usb ports.

I found an old Logi Driving Force (blue) for $25, that works better than the Sector 7 (usb,PS), but no FF as there's no power supply. Hoping to find one, one of these days.

Power supply p/n is 190211-0030. All i can find in replacement parts is 190211-A030. Send logitech an email and ask if its the same. A030 is only $10, but if it doesnt fit i might consider mailing you mine. I have a driving force collecting dust in the closet since it refuses to drive in a straight line so i dont really need my adapter anymore.

[mtuggle86]

Originally Posted by LoneWolf

i don't know exactly what you mean with support that controller... but if your PC detects it you can use it.

I was just wondering if the thumb sticks on the 360 controller will work for this game or will you have to use the d-pad

[Ayce]

Originally Posted by inuchan187

Power supply p/n is 190211-0030. All i can find in replacement parts is 190211-A030. Send logitech an email and ask if its the same. A030 is only $10, but if it doesnt fit i might consider mailing you mine. I have a driving force collecting dust in the closet since it refuses to drive in a straight line so i dont really need my adapter anymore.

All I could find out, so far, is it's 24v .75A center positive. I saw somewhere the pin was 2.1mm, I tried the adapter for my Power Max drill/driver The pin fits, and the voltage is right but not enough amps.
If I can't find one soon, I might take you up on that.

[gcountach]

Originally Posted by mtuggle86

I was just wondering if the thumb sticks on the 360 controller will work for this game or will you have to use the d-pad

I would think you can set it to either. Like most driving games, you can tell it what to use for steering left/right, gas/brake, etc. Whatever button/stick you move when you're setting up, so long as windows can see all the buttons exist.

[Miller]

Originally Posted by Chaul

It has always puzzled me how on earth are you even able to drive with a gamepad? I think gamepads are a bit new to PC's..

The gamepads I own work just fine for me in games such as those mentioned by BlakjeKaas, which he said "are sadly not playable with a wheel (or at least very hard)." As far as gamepads being new to PC is concerned, I do not have a very complete perspective with regard to such a frame in time, since PCs have been around so long. The gamepad is the first PC game controller I purchased. This was in 2000, ten years ago next month, and that gamepad still works, by the way. I feel very happy and grateful about that, to be sure.

Originally Posted by LoneWolf

If your gamepad has "Potenciometros" (srry i don't know how they are called in english) it has to be very heavy for that little thing.

I have been straining my brain to recall that word for some time now. I regret it when I cannot properly complain about something because I am unable to remember what it is called. Thank you for including that term in your post, man. Now my headache is gone, and I merely do not know what I am talking about.

I like heavy controllers better than lightweight ones. I like large gamepads better than smaller ones.

Originally Posted by LoneWolf

Resume N2 : When it comes to driving having accel and steer in separate axis, more over in separate limbs! is a very important thing.

Yeah, man. So far, all these arcade-style driving games I play work well enough by simply applying full accelerator or none, while relying heavily on the brakes, switching between the two kinds of braking effects typically offered. So I use buttons for gas and brakes, not the same stick for both or whatever like other players do. However, that does not seem as if it will be adequate for the kind of finesse that is said to to be required in driving games I will be including now, such as Motor World Online, if what I read about the game so far has registered properly. It seems like Ken has written here and elsewhere online that he originally planned an arcade game, but has been leaning more resolutely toward a more realistic racing simulation since then.

I was looking at some of these gamepads that offer pressure-sensitive buttons to use for gas and brakes, but I am committed to buying a wheel and pedals. I have only to choose which set, I guess. The G27 looks like the one I am going to try. I watched some videos of these game controller types being used, in which there are multiple cameras involved and split-screen editing showing gameplay, shifting, pedal work, and steering each in a different window of the video. That looks cool, man. This one dude has socks with toes. That looks cool, too, I guess. LOL He was a real expert, I think, because my toes would have been all tensely curled up if I were in his shoes...or whatever.

Originally Posted by LoneWolf

Resume N3 : Ah for crying out loud, get a wheel

Yeah. Simply stated. I wish I knew how to do that. LOL Thank you for the information about steering-wheel clamping.

Originally Posted by Pie

This is what I'm using now. LINK I payed $25 at a yard sale and the box was never opened. Force feeback and supports 90 to 900 degrees of rotation.

Is this envy, which besets me? (Is beset a word?) Thank you for the insight regarding the G27.

[Chaul]

Driving games should always be easier to play with a wheel than anything else, because, well, that's what you have in the real life equivalent of what you are trying to control.. I played NFS PU just fine with a wheel, wouldn't have had it any other way. It's true that the latest NFS incarnation is more or less uncontrollable though. They have a weird idea of "not to give an advantage to different controllers", so they try to "balance" the field somehow.

Potentiometer is the word, or in short, a pot. It's just an adjustable resistor and fairly cheap. There are other ways of measuring position. It could be some sort of optical equivalent too.

If you find the info and can hold tools, you could build yourself some sort of wheel with potentiometers that has more positions than on and off for direction, throttle and brake. The difficult part is in fixing the 2 (or 3) pedals and the wheel in place and connecting the whole thing through USB. Not counting how much the tools cost, you can do it for $10. No force feedback for that money though.