rec.autos.simulators

You may want to give Ridge Racer 4 a try. It is VERY fun on
the emulator. Also, TOCA/Jarrett-LeBonte Racing is just great.

GT2 is good old-fashioned fun isn't it.

And ***ive, so be careful .. :)

Yup, I never had a console so it's great to be able to see what I
missed :)
I do have one problem though, maybe you can help me: I have a -huge-
deadzone on the x-axis with my Momo. I really have to turn the wheel
completely to the left or right before it begins to steer.
I'm not sure if it's a deadzone problem or that the steering is
digital instead of analogue.. I did select digital/analogue in the
gamepad config option..

Oh, and I don't have music during the intro, is this normal?

Andre

I have a PS2 and I can assure you that the DualShock 2 is completely
analogue. Using the pad with GT3, you can hold the car on the revs you
want on the start line by varying the pressure on 'X'. In DropShip, if
you press the throttle button in *real* hard, you engage afterburner.
In Madden NFL 2002, if you watch a replay, you can adjust how fast you
skip through it by varying the pressure on the shoulder buttons (light
press - slow motion; hard press - fast forward; and a smooth speed
increase in between).

I didn't know that all of the buttons were pressure sensitive. I have never
seen anyone mention this before except for the shoulder buttons. I stand
corrected and I apologize for my confusion.

The deadzone problem I'm having seems to be caused by the emu itself,
since the forums are crowded with people having the same problem with
all sorts of wheels.
I tried different emu's, since for other emu's all sorts of
joystick-plugins have been written. Unfortunately ePSXe doesn't
support these joystick plugins yet.

Bleem doesn't seem to support GT2. Black screen after the intro.
A couple of other emu's do support GT2, but with all kind of gfx and
music errors, and a poor fps.

The best emu I found so far is Connectix Virtual Game Station (VGS).
This emu is so freaking good that Sony bought it and immediately
discontinued this emu, to prevent losing sales of the PS1.
But with google it's easy to find a copy.
VGS didn't need any configuration to run: Run VGS, insert the GT2 cd
and it worked flawlessly. Even the music worked during the intro!
The disadvantage of VGS is that you can hardly configure anything: You
can't improve the gfx like you can with ePSXe. It does support
joysticks, but only the old PS1 joysticks, without the analogue stick.

Still, if you want to use a wheel with GT2, so far I think VGS is the
best solution. There are a lot of mods for these emu's out there, I'll
post here if I find an even better solution to run GT2 with a wheel.

Andre

Andre

There is a version of bleem that works with GT2.  Version 1.6b.
Not sure if it addresses the controller deadzone issues.
I'm sure you'll be able to locate it.

Regards all,
istoff

Oh, one more thing worth mentioning - the two sticks are actually buttons as
well.  I didn't realize this until I first played GTA3 and kept looking for
"L3" and "R3"...

Milhouse *going back to mash thumbs with GTA:VC*

Andre

Ok, I gave up on fixing the wheel/deadzone problem, and I bought a
rumblepad for $40. Works perfect, to my surprise even the 'force
feedback' works. Thanks again for the suggestion Ed, having a -blast-
here, been a long time since I had so much pure fun with a game :)

BTW, could you post the settings you use? Especially the gfx settings.

Cheers,
Andre

VIDEO

 http://home.t-online.de/home/PeteBernert/gpu.htm
 http://home.t-online.de/home/PeteBernert/gpupete165.zip

- Pete's Open GL driver 1.64

SOUND

 http://www.vg-network.com/dl.phtml?files/utils/gpupeopssoftwin106.zip

P.E.Op.S. DSound Audio Driver 1.1
  Enable Sound
  Enable CDDA Sound
  Enable XA Sound and Xa Read

CD ROM:
Included with ePSXe emulator ePSXe CDR ASPI core 1.5.1.
  ENABLE STD. CD Rom TIMING
  ENABLE SUBCHANNEL SUPPORT

Here's what I use in Pete's Open GL Driver:

 : fullscreen mode-checked
 :
 : desktop 1024x768 color depth 32 bit
 :
 : change desktop settings checked
 :
 : texture quality R8 G8 B8 A8 - Best Colors, more ram needed
 :
 : texture filtering 6:Extended + smoothed sprites
 :
 : gfx card vram size 64mb
 :
 : smart texture garbage collection - checked
 :
 : hi-res textures - checked
 :
 : show fps - checked
 :
 : use fps limit - checked
 :
 : fps limit 60 fps
 :
 : compatibility:
 :
 : off-screen drawing 3:enhanced
 :
 : framebuffer textures 0: emulated vram
 :
 : framebuffer vram  0: ok for most games
 :
 : framebuffer access 0:
 :
 : alpha multi-pass - checked
 :
 : Nothing else on config screen checked..
 :
 : This gives solid 60fps, and looks nice!
 :
 : My system: P4-2.4 / 512rdram / Gef3-64mb