Nicktoons racing game disconnect issue

Speaking of that full restore process, has does the game not do the full restore process Every time it loads and or how do you run the full restore process. The boot process is CD first than hard drive. I feel like that would run the full restore process every time wouldn't it?
Not generally, no. That would take 15 or 30 minutes. These machines were made to generate revenue. That would hurt revenues.
 
Not generally, no. That would take 15 or 30 minutes. These machines were made to generate revenue. That would hurt revenues.
Makes sense. Then I am sadly definitely doing something wrong. If anyone knows how to start the restore process I am all ears. I followed the manual to the best of my abilities with no success.
 
Makes sense. Then I am sadly definitely doing something wrong. If anyone knows how to start the restore process I am all ears. I followed the manual to the best of my abilities with no success.
Did you try installing a keyboard and interrupting the boot process? There should be a BAT file in there for the restore on the CD, but you have to get into the DOS and tree walk to find it.

If it's a DOS machine. DIR - Directory
CD - Change Drive (you look at the directory and see which folder you need to go to. For example, you see RESTORE

CD:\restore
this command would get you to the directory to run DIR

Let's say you see a RESTORE.BAT (I don't know what the file name is or would be(
Type START RESTORE.BAT and that should run it.

If it's a Windows OS, you'd use the File Manager to find the program name, then the command prompt (CMD) to run the same program.

Or get someone who is a Technomage to come and help.
 
no, it's gotta be a CD that has its own startup routine. the bios does need to have the boot order priority to CD over HDD like you said. You probably don't have the CD in the drive or it's unreadable if it's not doing the restore every boot.
 
no, it's gotta be a CD that has its own startup routine. the bios does need to have the boot order priority to CD over HDD like you said. You probably don't have the CD in the drive or it's unreadable if it's not doing the restore every boot.
i think you are right. as of right now the CD drive wont open at all, dont know if its jammed or just completely busted. I press the cd tray eject button and it makes some noise but nothing happens, going to look up on google how to crack open a cd tray manually without breaking it to see what if anything is even inside the drive.
 
i think you are right. as of right now the CD drive wont open at all, dont know if its jammed or just completely busted. I press the cd tray eject button and it makes some noise but nothing happens, going to look up on google how to crack open a cd tray manually without breaking it to see what if anything is even inside the drive.
They use the cheapest possible drives and then they are put in dusty environments and run for 12 hours a day for years. They usually can be opened if you put a paper clip into the small opening under the tray. You use the paper clip to nudge the tray out and it can then be pulled out manually.
 
i think you are right. as of right now the CD drive wont open at all, dont know if its jammed or just completely busted. I press the cd tray eject button and it makes some noise but nothing happens, going to look up on google how to crack open a cd tray manually without breaking it to see what if anything is even inside the drive.
There should be a little hole somewhere next to the eject button. Use a paper clip it should open even when its off.
 
no, it's gotta be a CD that has its own startup routine. the bios does need to have the boot order priority to CD over HDD like you said. You probably don't have the CD in the drive or it's unreadable if it's not doing the restore every boot.
so no cd as you stated, Found one on ebay, tempted to try that, but in the meantime do you know of a way to manually re center the steering wheel without being able to do it in the diagnostics?
 
the wheel should be free to move? you will need to calibrate the wheel to use it?
the wheel is very tight. its not centered as of now so that you can turn like 180 degrees one way but only 90 degrees the other way and then it shoots back to its original non centered spot. Can I calibrate not in the game? can I calibrate it manually by taking stuff apart and putting back together and what not? Ive never really messed with steering wheels, they have always just worked for me in the past..*** correction, optical illusion because steering wheel was on sideways. Remounted and steering wheel is centered now, sorry for confusion and thank you for assistance.
 
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have you verified your voltages yet? sounds like you might have a bad force feedback motor or driver board? I could be wrong though, maybe if you recalibrate it, it will start working? It shouldn't be hard to move... the force feedback never stops you from moving the wheel, it basically is just trying to return it to center. the center mark should be 0x80, but it might be off a little.
 
have you verified your voltages yet? sounds like you might have a bad force feedback motor or driver board? I could be wrong though, maybe if you recalibrate it, it will start working? It shouldn't be hard to move... the force feedback never stops you from moving the wheel, it basically is just trying to return it to center. the center mark should be 0x80, but it might be off a little.
I have not verified voltage because there is no IO board between the steering wheel or any of the controls actually and the computer so if the 5 volt isn't working then I would have thought a whole bunch of stuff would be out, but I did just check the schematic and basically the controls are the only thing actually using the 5 volt from the computer power supply. I'll check that right away. Great call.

I don't believe this game has a driver board and my main complaint with the game is no force feedback, now it does always recenter itself because it's not a 360 wheel, but it doesn't have the kind of force feedback that bumps or whetever like cruisn and other racing games.

I don't think I can enter any sort of calibration since the game won't work sadly. Normally to calibrate you wait until the game turns on and then press f1, I'm not able to get to that point because of the error that pops up on the screen.

Correct not actually hard to move wheel just wants to return to center like you said.

And finally no clue what 0x80 means.
 
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i'd fix the game software first and see if calibrating it cures the problem. no point in breaking down and resetting the hardware if it's because there's never been a calibration.
 
i'd fix the game software first and see if calibrating it cures the problem. no point in breaking down and resetting the hardware if it's because there's never been a calibration.
OK we are on the home stretch now my friends! Software works! Tried to calibrate steering and no matter how I do it the sensor bar shooting across is not centered (well that might be an optical illusion as well) but what I know for sure is whenever I turn left it turns right first and whenever I let go of steering wheel the guy is turning right. He does end up straightening out but wow does it make it difficult to drive and even harder to pick characters and courses. What's the next step my friend?
 
OK we are on the home stretch now my friends! Software works! Tried to calibrate steering and no matter how I do it the sensor bar shooting across is not centered (well that might be an optical illusion as well) but what I know for sure is whenever I turn left it turns right first and whenever I let go of steering wheel the guy is turning right. He does end up straightening out but wow does it make it difficult to drive and even harder to pick characters and courses. What's the next step my friend?
If your steering is reversed maybe the potentiometer is hooked up wrong? There are 3 wires for the potentiometer, ground, wiper, and voltage. The wiper is always in the middle, which is the actual amount the potentiometer has turned. if you have pin 1 as voltage and pin 3 as ground then the wiper will go from 5v to 0. if you have pin 1 as ground and pin 3 as voltage then the wiper will go from 0 to 5v. the game is interpreting the voltage with an ADC converter to make it a digital number, which is the 0x80 I was talking about before. You should be able to turn it left and right to go from 0 to 0xFF. In the calibration settings is it showing a hexadecimal number or a decimal number to show you your position from 0 to 255?
 
If your steering is reversed maybe the potentiometer is hooked up wrong? There are 3 wires for the potentiometer, ground, wiper, and voltage. The wiper is always in the middle, which is the actual amount the potentiometer has turned. if you have pin 1 as voltage and pin 3 as ground then the wiper will go from 5v to 0. if you have pin 1 as ground and pin 3 as voltage then the wiper will go from 0 to 5v. the game is interpreting the voltage with an ADC converter to make it a digital number, which is the 0x80 I was talking about before. You should be able to turn it left and right to go from 0 to 0xFF. In the calibration settings is it showing a hexadecimal number or a decimal number to show you your position from 0 to 255?
Suck I forgot to put the picture in my last post. I believe I have it hooked up correctly to the meters. I just copied the gas and brakes. Middle and left side. Basically it goes right fine. And it goes left, but goes right for a little bit first before it goes left. And it constantly wants to pull to the right. Attached is photo of what it shows in the calibration screen. Doesn't show any of the cool stuff your talking about.
 

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ok, 0K and 100K is what they're calling 0 to 255 or (0x0 to 0xFF). So if it goes left when you turn left then the potentiometer is not backwards. I think you have to get the center point set correctly though. In that image you are right of center. hrm...
 
ok, 0K and 100K is what they're calling 0 to 255 or (0x0 to 0xFF). So if it goes left when you turn left then the potentiometer is not backwards. I think you have to get the center point set correctly though. In that image you are right of center. hrm...
Ohhh ya gotcha. Ya I don't think it's backwards. I think the potentiometer is just shot. I tried getting that center point setup correctly and it did not want to go. Is it possible to just replace the potentiometer, or atleast start there and then if that doesn't fix it try the next option, I'm guessing there cheap, the only super annoying part will be taking the old one off and installing the new one... Speaking of would it be even smarter to swap the gas meter for the steering meter and see if that fixes my problem?
 
yeah that happens too. you could also try shooting contact cleaner or deoxit inside and scrubbing the wheel a bunch.

if the part is the exact same between steering and gas then yes you could try it, but if the pots are different resistance values or different physical size it may not work.
 
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