I like seimitsu sticks as well but don’t have as strong of a preference when it comes to buttons. I tried both an LS-32 and LS-56 on my mayflash f500 with a variety of buttons. I decided to stick with the LS-56 and seimitsu buttons, but I also like sanwa buttons.
One complication with replacing sticks is getting the right adaptor plate so that the screw holes line up. I had to get a universal adaptor plate to fit my LS-56 in. So many modding instructions are based around sanwa that you have to dig a little to find what you need for seimitsu.
I’m not sure. The wheel would lose center constantly. It would usually fix itself if I disconnected/reconnected it until it didn’t. I checked online and saw a lot of people with the same problem. It was 1 month out of the 1 year warranty when it got to the point where it wouldn’t fix itself anymore.
I got a TS-PC wheel, T3PA-Pro pedals, and the TH8A used for what is apparently less than half of MSRP for those (had no idea) and they’re high quality.
Do you care about having a stick shifter and/or clutch? In the middle of the price spread those are the differentiators.
Fanatec is definitely the brand for wheels but I would lean Thrustmaster over Logitech from what hands-on I got in stores. More pieces are metal vs. injection molded plastic. I’d also look for the power supply if it has force feedback - an external one inspires confidence (mine looks goofy like a tiny turbocharger but que sera sera)
Like most things these days, buying the nice thing used is the way to go, unfortunately
sadly, despite having been researching this for a few hours now, this is all still greek to me! i don’t know what JST means, for one thing, and google isn’t helping
my goal is to put a seimitsu LS-40 stick in the housing. i’m not sure that this specific stick would have any versions available with the required connectors. my impression is such a thing does not exist
my understanding was i need at least 4 “american-style” “0.187 to usb” “zero delay” cables, possibly 5 because you can’t specify length and the indicated ~9 inches is likely insufficient for the longest directional stretch so you need to splice two of the wires together
as well as
a joystick with “0.187” … pins? i can tell what i need visually with the little flat pins sticking out from the board as opposed to the 5-pin connectors
there appear to be multiple versions of joysticks with various configurations, and i cannot find a single one of this exposed-pins version of the seimitsu ls-40 in stock on any site
anyway this whole process has been monumentally confusing and i’m still confused as fuck
JST connectors are ubiquitous in electronics for socketing things that ideally shouldn’t be soldered. They’re in the red rectangle in this photo. You’ve probably seen some? They look/function very similarly to PC fan headers.
i think the issue here is the Seimitsu LS-40 is not available with JST connectors, you have to do more work. not interested in the Sanwa sticks, so that won’t help
I was researching this briefly the other day and there are quite a few people on redidt talking about clearance issues when putting seimetsu sticks into 8bitdos (which is also why I decided not to bother and just replaced the buttons in mine), there’s a fair bit there
I think I may be SOL in the used market due to being in Canada (there are none out there), and also SOL on the new market due to being in Canada (they are selling here for four times retail)
I would definitely like a shifter.
I think I was hoping for people to tell me to just not bother to look into this lmao
oh yeah welcome to dealing with @doolittle’s helpfulness while in canada, eventually it just leads to more trips across the border in a pandemic to get hardware you don’t need
truly an awful hobby to have north of the 49th these days, between everyone just assuming that everything is supposed to cost a fortune and boutique hardware being better than ever
Oh, I mean, I definitely think it’s of very limited utility. It’s still more like using a controller than driving a car – it’s just like, Rock Band drums instead of Guitar Hero.
I played Forza Horizon 4 with a controller most of the time for convenience.
yeah I should say myself that while I was very happy to pick up a thrustmaster warthog a few months ago (from a vancouver craigslist alert! imagine) and I get a lot of use out of it, I actually find wheels as peripherals markedly more niche, between the difficulty of mounting them and their tendency to actually make the game harder
Yeah, it’s completely different from HOTAS where modern controllers just do not give a shit about supporting flight or space sims. You need an analog throttle and brake and a high fidelity rotational input for a racing/driving game and those are provided by either Xbox or PlayStation controllers. I’m quite fond of the rumble triggers on the Xbox One pad, fwiw.
Just remembered Mario Kart 8 puts acceleration on the right analog stick.
yeah, I know, I had a wheel years ago (a midrange one (the high-end was lower back then) for the PS2, and prior to 900º rotation becoming commonplace) and it was good fun but I sorely miss it now
see that is actually kind of what I want, I have my eye in a bit too well with the Xbox controller, frankly can’t deal with shifting on a gamepad, and want a wheel and shifter setup so I can actually multitask like I’m driving
maybe I need to get my wife to goad me into this so I don’t feel entirely guilty about spending ridiculous dollars on it; there’s a functioning Hi-Vision LD player in our house, after all
biggest problem is I don’t really have a viable gaming desk setup, everything is in the living room, so I’d probably need one of those rickety looking pipe mount setups which look frankly awful
oh, me too, for sure. I wish more games used it as well as Forza does, because it really does give a feeling for where the limit of grip actually is
wheels are great for me because index finger-curling is forever a no-go due to cubital tunnel syndrome. any game that requires you to hold down a trigger at length is unplayable for me for more than a few minutes unless i want to further injure myself. it might be my RSI bias but as a result i don’t think gamepads are a great solution for sim-style racing games.
playing a game with a wheel is such a great experience! if you just want to control the car accurately, sure a pad works fine, but the experience is starkly different between the two
