Hi everyone, im new around here so many of you wont know me. Ive posted here and there but I think this is my first topic. Anyway I am looking for some opinions on making a true racing style cockpit. Im think manily for NFSU and NFSU 2. My uncle and I have been thinking alot about doing it since we got our hands on (the sold) a virtua racing arcade game. Im a big fan of street racing and I like the Need for speed underground series but it just dosent match up to real racing in large part due to the fact that its a controller and not a real wheel. I would like to use a nice seat (unknown type yet) and use a real wheen, pedals, and 5 speed gear shift. I am thinking of wireing them to a cracked up ps2 controller. Using wires ran off the buttons to the pedals, and shifter and such. I thinking of going with pc since the nfsu games on them look better then the console counterparts. Im wondering if anyone has tryed anything like this before and how hard it was. I have used the ps controller thing on several mame cabs (to avoid keyboard ghosting ^^) Anyway thanks for any ideas anyone can churn out. Take it easy -Mike
I'm just throwing this out there...but have you considered buying a gutted racing game cabinet? It would come with a neato seat and everything. I suppose you could build a cabinet yourself (somebody has to have made a template for a MAME cockpit or something), but then you'd be lacking all of the cool things that would probably come with an arcade cabinet (high quality pedals, wheel, etc). Just a thought. Could be hard to find a gutted cockpit...but theres only one way to find out.
