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Rick Reynolds

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Since: Jul 12, 2005
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 12:12 pm
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Hello folks...

It's been a couple of years since I've been active on AGM, but my mame
cab is still in action (http://www.rickandviv.net/mamecab.html).

A year or so ago I got hold of a star wars yoke (actually a yoke from a
different Atari cab, but essentially the same). I'm finally getting
around to designing a panel.

I've noticed that Spy Hunter doesn't play well at all on my driving
panel which has a spinner-based steering wheel (works great for Pole
Position). I remember that it used a yoke as a control, but I'm
wondering what kind. I'm planning on interfacing my yoke to the PC via
the sidewinder hack
(http://1uparcade.robandmitsue.com/projects-dualstrike.html). So I'm
wondering if this would be a good control for Spy Hunter as well. If
so, I'm going to want a gear shifter on this panel.

Should this work? Or is the control for Spy Hunter different than a
spinner control and also different than a star wars-ish yoke control?

Thanks,
Rick Reynolds

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Rutger6559

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 8:27 am
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Rick Reynolds

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:02 pm
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In article <5f31o3h8p8de5ohafqgngm2290ihel85l3 RemoveThis @4ax.com>,
Rutger6559 <rutgerTHE_OBVIOUS6559 RemoveThis @yahoo.com> wrote:

> I think you'll be pleasantly surprised, Rick. I have a original CP
> from an upright Spy Hunter (it's beat to heck, and needs LOTS of
> reworking, dang lying ebay seller!), but I hooked it up to a dual
> strike a few years ago just for testing purposes, and it seemed to
> play pretty darn well. Keep in mind this was probably using MAME 0.68
> or so.
>
> >Should this work? Or is the control for Spy Hunter different than a
> >spinner control and also different than a star wars-ish yoke control?
>
> It's just a pot in there so it should be easy. It's not even a yoke.
> It's really just steering wheel (10kOhm pot, IIRC) and four buttons
> (well 2 buttons, and 2 triggers)

I really appreciate the response. Knowing that the original spy hunter
control was using pots makes me much more confident.

> Please post your results for us as I'm very interested.

I'll do that. I have some work to do on the yoke itself (needs some
cleaning and painting before I can attempt a wire-up. Then I'm going to
want to do a test mount with it to test out the angle and find one that
feels right during actual gameplay. At that point, I'll know if
everything is working.

After that, I'll end up rebuilding the panel into its final form. This
will be a good opportunity to take some new pics for my website as well.

Thanks for the info.
Rick Reynolds
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Rick Reynolds

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(Msg. 4) Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 9:21 pm
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> > Please post your results for us as I'm very interested.

Just a small follow-up...

I've been able to get my yoke working with the dual-strike board. It's
very cool, actually!

A pole position shifter I got via ebay arrived today as well. I
anticipate fooling with a design to mount the yoke onto my cab over the
next couple of weeks. Hopefully I'll have a real test of Spy Hunter
with the yoke shortly after that.

I appreciate the help I've gotten from everyone here in AGM over the
years. And for this question in particular.

Rick
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(Msg. 5) Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 12:24 am
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(Msg. 6) Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 11:16 pm
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