{"id":415,"date":"2008-10-04T13:51:08","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T17:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/?p=415"},"modified":"2013-11-28T09:07:08","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T14:07:08","slug":"the-star-wars-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/2008\/10\/04\/the-star-wars-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Star Wars panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imagelink\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_0924.jpg\" title=\"The Star Wars panel\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_0924-450.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"The Star Wars panel\" width=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-416\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yes!  A Star Wars yoke!<\/p>\n<p>I found this yoke a couple of years ago on ebay.  It was actually from an Apache 3 arcade machine.  I cleaned it up, painted it, built a &#8220;steering column&#8221; of sorts for it and got it working with my cabinet.  I used the &#8220;Dual Strike hack&#8221; (which at the time of writing this post can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/tigerheli.mameworld.info\/encoder\/dual_strike\/rdagger_hack\/index.html\">here<\/a>) to wire the yoke to the computer.  As such, this is the first panel I&#8217;ve built that doesn&#8217;t rely solely on my custom plug architecture.  This panel requires a second USB plug-in.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that a yoke is also the right control for Spy Hunter.  Obviously, the buttons to fire weapons and such are a direct mapping, but Spy Hunter apparently used this kind of electronics for its steering yoke as well.  What I mean is that it needs potentiometers to register the turning, which is what is on the inside of a Star Wars yoke control.  Trying to play Spy Hunter using my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/2008\/10\/04\/the-driving-panel\">Driving panel<\/a> was just a disaster &#8212; which is because of this difference in the control schemes on the two games.  Spy Hunter explains the gear shifter on the right (again ebay!).<\/p>\n<p>This panel is the product of a good 2 years&#8217; planning, purchasing, and work.  I&#8217;m very proud of how it turned out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes! A Star Wars yoke! I found this yoke a couple of years ago on ebay. It was actually from an Apache 3 arcade machine. I cleaned it up, painted it, built a &#8220;steering column&#8221; of sorts for it and got it working with my cabinet. I used the &#8220;Dual Strike hack&#8221; (which at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-frinkiac7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2409,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/2409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}