cruis'n exotica dedicated owners question

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Got a great deal on a dedicated cruis'n exotica and the only issue i had was i had to replace the steering pot. My question is do any of you guys (with a dedicated exotica) does your steering jerk when you bump into other cars etc. I thought it did when i played it in the arcade but mine is not. Has resistance, but i swore it had a jerk to the wheel like rush or california speed when you bump stuff. If yours does i have to figure out why mine's not. thanks.
 
I don't own one but I've played it a lot. I don't recall feeling a jerk when you hit other cars. of course, you could check your force feedback settings...
 
I can only do the feedback from 1-10 and it seems fine, just not getting the jerking of the wheel. Anyone else remember or own one?
 
it should kick the wheel out of your hands somewhat.

is the steering erratic at all? like does it snap from left to right or anything weird like that on the track selection?

someone else had a thread about their steering pot being bad and doing that, and I told them to replace it, if the pot's messed up it'll mess with the force feedback, however, it should make it super strong and nearly break your wrists, not be dead. lol

I don't know anything about the voltages going to the feedback motor anymore, I don't know what kind of voltage it calls for, you can start by checking all your connections to everything in there though.

I know with ours, which was like the WORST game ever when we got it that half the shit was unplugged inside it, the monitor chassis had cold solder up the ass, the steering pot debacle, etc. and after getting that all worked out the game's been fine since.

do you know how to check power supply voltage by chance? it's one of those games from an era where a lot of things are starting to go bad now...
 
my wheel was going nuts til yesterday when i put the new pot in and it stopped that. The feedback test makes it go from left to right fine, also the selecting trackks it hesitates on each track like it supposed to. I tried a driver board out of my rush as it's the same but still no difference. I guess voltages are the nexti thing to check like you mentioned as i know the pots good and the driver board.
 
Most games have a special force feedback motor for that jerking. It's possible that is isn't connected anymore after you changed that pot.

On some games (like Outrun) I disconnected the shaking as Outrun has a plastic gear that tends to break over time. Disabling the shaking means it stays unbroken for a lot longer...
 
he's saying you may have disconnected it. it should be a big black cylindrical device attached to a belt that goes to the steering wheel.... I think. lol I haven't really looked at such a monster in great detail in awhile.

I told you, check your wiring, if you have any loose wires in there, try to figure out where they hook up at. otherwise I don't know... maybe your feedback motor just went bad. did it ever work?
 
no, the motor is there connected and working, it does do the steering wheel test where it will turn right left on its own
 
Intetesting, but how would changing the pot affect anything like the feedback?

In belt-driven force feedback systems, there's no spring to pull the wheel towards center; instead, the game uses the pot reading to re-right the wheel manually. This has a lot of advantages (easiest to explain example is when your car is airborne, there's no track to pull your wheels back to center, so the steering wheel goes limp) but depends on the reading from the pot being valid. If the pot isn't reading the wheel right, then what the game sees doesn't correspond correctly to where the wheel shaft is, and the game will continually pull the wheel in one direction or the other because it "feels resistance" when it's really just a bad pot giving a reading far right/left of where the wheel actually is.
 
I swore I told the OP to replace the pot, but I guess I forgot lol

I also thought I read that they DID replace it, but re-reading I don't see that?
 
problem solved hopefully!

Happ gave me the wrong pot, they gave me a midway one but there is a dedicated exotica pot, on its way for next week! woo hoo. I'll let you know if it does the trick.
 
Cruis'n Exotica dedicated sit down here at the hackerspace doesn't seem to bump the wheel when you hit other cars. We've got it set pretty high as far as feedback.

It does give feedback when you run off the road, and during selection.

Steering control seems fine? My friend has two, we're working on the 2nd one to get it running. First one is mostly working,
 
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