Cruisin World (Hyperdrive) force feedback pulls right

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Cruisin World (Hyperdrive) force feedback pulls right

The forcefeedback pulls right - and I suspect (based on a Cruisin Exotica manual - couldn't find Cruisin World) that there is a problem with a system board.

I have recalibrated several times - and it still pulls hard right, continuously, from the moment the machine is powered (can still play it - just pulls)

I believe the cab is actually a 1998 Midway Hyperdrive that was converted based on the gray seat. What does it take to convert it back to the original Hyperdrive game in the cab?

Can anyone confirm (based on the seat??) that this is Hyperdrive? Were there other Midway games that used this gray seat?
 

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Cruisin World back to Hyperdrive

What does it take to convert the Cruisin World back to its original game for the cab - Hyperdrive? Is it just a matter of updating ROM (and obviously exterior artwork)?

Or is there quit a bit more to it?
 
A good bit.. hyperdrive boards arnt very common and you cant just swap chips its a totally different board. The steering would need to be swaped, with the joystick from hyperdrive. Wiring should all be the same. You could buy a blitz board and get the chips from toplessz for hyperdrive.

Your problems with it pulling right could be either the main cpu or hopefully just the force feedback board which is a lot cheaper to replace.
 
on our Cruis'n Exotica, the force feedback went psycho, like to the point it could probably break your wrist. :p it would snap hard left and hard right, there was no middle ground, and that was caused by a bad steering pot.

I think the steering pots failed on these games a lot because of the way the bracket's designed, as per what the tech that helped me fix it (I was a noob at this point) and I think he said that he would shim the bracket with a washer at the place he worked at and it extended the pot life a lot.

if you could, maybe disconnect the force feedback's power, and then while in test mode make sure that your steering volume cycles smoothly. if there's any drops in the value or it starts walking on its own, the pot's bad and you should probably entertain replacing that first. it's just a regular 5k ohm, shack might have it or you can get it from Bob or Happ or the usual game part outlets.

if this isn't the problem at all, then the next step should probably be looking at the force feedback board, see if anything's nuked on it. then scope fleabay, see if there's such a monster floating around on there and go from there.

I think there was a user that was pretty familiar with these, maybe channelmanic? (he seems to know everything anyway :))
 
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