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Does Rally Championship 2000 (Mobil 1 Rally Championship) support multiple
controllers? I'm trying to run it with a MOMO wheel and BRD Speed 7 pedals
but so far without avail.
Has anyone managed to get it working using multiple controllers and with the
pedals in split axis mode?

Thanks

  I tried a few months ago to get my TM wheels working with a LWFF.  No
luck.  The latest patch, v.6 I think has an option for combining joysticks,
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I could get the game to recognize the new pedals, and even calibrate, but
once the sim started...nothing would work.    There are some guys who have
had sucess tho, but I don't know how they achieved it.
dave henrie

You need the latest patch, and in the ralcfg file set mergejoy=1.  You
may also have to have fizpatch=1 (I think at one patch level *none* of
the enhancements were active without this).  You then setup your wheel
as player #1's controller, and the pedals as player #2's controller.
This works for my ActLabs ForceRS as a wheel combined with my TM
Nascar Pro for the pedals.
Does your pedal set use the X-axis for one of the pedals?  It's
possible that it only works when the pedals are using the Y and R
axes.

I actually went through some trouble setting this up at one point
(like Dave mentioned, where the pedals didn't work), but it's been so
long since I fixed it that I can't really remember what the problem
was.  You do have to make sure that your pedal calibration in Windows
is OK, and that there is a slight deadzone (so that your brakes aren't
slightly applied at the lightest touch, for example).

HTH,
Kendt

In case you look here first rather than at RSC, here's the answer I gave to
the same question which you posted there:

Here's one I dredged up from my Sent Items folder. It is a reply I made on
RAS on 12th March 2000 to the same question. The High Gear link no longer
exists but the rest of the post is still valid.

Sorry you couldn't get the controls working. Here's some additional info
which may help you out.

I'm using the UK version of RC with the latest patch (4) to take it to
version 5.27.1. The file ral.cfg which I referred to is NOT created during
the installation. It is a configuration file used by MF to change varous
setting in the game.

The file needs to be created in the var directory. On my PC, RC is
installed in the C:\Games\Rc directory so the ral.cfg file need to be in the
C:\Games\Rc\Var directory. My ral.cfg file contains the following lines:

framecounter=1
sensiblesaving=1
mergejoy=1
nofmv=1

framecounter adds a framecounter at the top of the screen. sensiblesaving
allows saving at the end of each stage. mergejoy allows controls from
players 1 and 2 to be used in single player mode and nofmv switches off the
intro movie.

In Windows I set controller 1 to be my LWFF with split axis pedals. I set
controller 2 to be my CH Pedals and a joystick set up as a CH Flightstick
Pro with rudder pedals enabled. I made sure that the switch on the CH Pedals
was set to Car and that I callibrated both controllers.

In RC, I configured player 1 to use controller 1 which I set to be a 3 axis
wheel with pedals. I set all the controls using the LWFF. I set the upper
deadzone so that it was slightly less than maximum and the lower deadzone to
its minimum setting. This is important. With split axis pedals there is a
bug which locks the brakes on if the upper deadzone is set to maximum (no
grey). This can be seen when you change to the chase cam which will show the
brake lights are always on. Its amazing how much your times improve when you
don't brake all the time! Once I'd set all these, I saved the settings and
configured player 2.

I configured player 2 to use controller 2 which I also set to be a 3 axis
wheel with pedals. I set all the controls using the joystick and my CH
Pedals and saved the settings.

I then went to drive in single player mode and was able to use any of the
controllers the control the car.

I've tested this with the LWFF as controller 2 and couldn't get it to work.
Maybe that's your problem. The other possibility is that the US version of
the game doesn't support ral.cfg. Try my file settings and see if you get a
framecounter. If you don't, remove all lines except the framecounter and try
again. If you still don't get a framecounter, your luck may be out. I
suppose you could download patch 4 from www.rallychampionship.co.uk to get
it to work. Alternatively, try the High Gear forum. They are a helpful bunch
their and the forum has a good search facility. It's where I found the
solution to this problem. The URL for it is:

http://forums.simracingnews.com/cgi...e=30&LastLogin=

You mention that you had to have the LWFF as controller 2 for GPL. I use
this configuration in GPL with no problems. I set steering to be axis zero,
the accelerator to be axis 6 and the brakes to axis 7. When you were
callibrating the controls in GPL did you click on the gold arrow at the
bottom left of the callibration window to allow you callibrate axes 4 to 7?
If you missed this, you may be able to set the LWFF to controller 1 and your
pedals to controller 2. A lot of people, myself included, have found that
the LWFF produces more force as controller 1.

Hope this helps.

Cheers

Phil

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Race Sim Central Administrator
http://www.racesimcentral.com

Thanks for all the replies, the game works fine now.

Cheers,
Kai