sirlynxalot Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 (edited) There's a bunch of old driving games like Pole Position, TX-1 and Road Blasters that basically use a spinner for the steering wheel that can rotate freely instead of a steering wheel that snaps back to center. As a result, (unless I'm missing something) MAME does not provide the functionality to return the wheel to center in its controls options. Without being able to snap the wheel back to center, I find it very difficult to play these games with steering simply mapped to either keyboard keys, or an analogue joystick. What do you all do with respect to emulating these kinds of games? Are there some software programs/hacks that might make the steering more enjoyable? Do you set up some kind of USB spinner to play these games? Edited April 22, 2020 by sirlynxalot 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_me Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 An analog control doesn't emulate a spinner very well. For games like Pole Position, if you don't have a spinner, you can map the mouse axis to the steering. Otherwise you can map a thumbstick or buttons to the steering increment and decrement inputs in mame; it works. It's not ideal but I play Pole Position with a mouse and keyboard. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluxit Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 My spinner is based on an inverted optical mouse board with a chunk of light foam rubber as the "encoder wheel." It works well for Pole Position and TX-1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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