Upgrading Fast And Furious to Drift?

[TimmyG]

Hello all! I have a fast and furious dedicated cab and I was curious how easy/hard it would be to upgrade to drift and what would be required if anyone has previously done one themselves? My version is 1.79 currently, and has the dongles etc.
I have never upgraded an arcade so sorry if this sounds like a noobie question (which it 100% probably is lol) but when I was google searching there wasnt much to be found on doing it.

Thank you in advance!

 

[PMX Gaming]

Have the same question?? anyone

 

[Encom]

You would have to get a Drift dongle to do the upgrade. I don't think there is much different between the two games other than that. I have seen some that were upgraded that had both the Drift and FnF dongles in them.

 

[pcjohn]

Older versions of the IO board will not work on Drift. You may
need to replace that as well.

 

[bigdenny]

Older versions of the IO board will not work on Drift. You may
need to replace that as well.

Hmm really? Never had issues using older faf io boards. Perhaps they changed this in latest software releases.

 

[PMX Gaming]

You would have to get a Drift dongle to do the upgrade. I don't think there is much different between the two games other than that. I have seen some that were upgraded that had both the Drift and FnF dongles in them.

Ah ok ! I didn't know if there was a separate Drift Dongle, what about Super Cars, is it a similar upgrade (even if different pc). I want to try using a SATA hard drive switcher and be able to select between FNF1 and DRIFT . no, I never seen done just wanna try if is as easy as switching hard drives, same pc! I have 2 machines, both I would say older IO board because they both have microtel and IDE drives. I swapped one to sata already and restored and I do have an HP 705 g3 desktop that is just sitting here, not a FNF pc yet. Guess going look for dongle! Will plug into the same watchdog? (trying to learn) just picked up a pair 3 weeks ago for $500!!! and they up and running minimum effort but I had to heatgun one of the gpu's (been running non stop since for weeks). Like to put pcs with onboard video, nix video cards.

 

[Encom]

I don't think supercars would work. There was an upgrade to it from Drift and FnF but the first step of the upgrade was cutting the top half of the cabinet off and installing a new monitor. I assume that means that the monitors couldn't support the resolution or something that SuperCars puts out.

Both FnF and Drift are picky about the PC you use. There are some Dells that will work not sure about the HP. It could work but it would need to have all the hardware that the software is expecting.

 

[PMX Gaming]

I don't think supercars would work. There was an upgrade to it from Drift and FnF but the first step of the upgrade was cutting the top half of the cabinet off and installing a new monitor. I assume that means that the monitors couldn't support the resolution or something that SuperCars puts out.

Both FnF and Drift are picky about the PC you use. There are some Dells that will work not sure about the HP. It could work but it would need to have all the hardware that the software is expecting.

Yes, been really researching the different pc's. I'm going to eventually locate a drift dongle and then play around with sata switcher and a drift. I will have right pc that will run both. The dongle kinda sucks because is taking all the fun out of pushing a button and switching hard drives , now have a dongle to swap but still be cool to be able to swap both machines even over to drift sometimes, I don't want to convert either of my machines into anything else want to leave graphics and original fnf. just having some fun, I knew zero about these month ago and picked up a pair of fnf for $500 , both were saying no signal but got that worked out

 

[Encom]

I would think that you could have both Dongles in the PC and the software would ignore the other one. Not that I have tested that. There is also two different kinds of dongles. Some USB and some parallel. Dedicated FnF have the parallel, Drifts usually have the parallel if they're dedicated but some dedicated ones have the USB. The Drift conversions always have the USB dongles.

 

[PMX Gaming]

I would think that you could have both Dongles in the PC and the software would ignore the other one. Not that I have tested that. There is also two different kinds of dongles. Some USB and some parallel. Dedicated FnF have the parallel, Drifts usually have the parallel if they're dedicated but some dedicated ones have the USB. The Drift conversions always have the USB dongles.

oh that's interesting. So you suggesting perhaps that I can have the USB dongle plugged in to the PC as well as the parallel dongle and it would find which? If so i'm liking that. how do you find a usb drift dongle guess is next q. Mine is definitely two dedicated og fnf1 cabinets, nothing modified or changed.

 

[Encom]

Or possibly two USB dongles. Finding the dongles isn't hard, it's the paying for them that is.

 

[PMX Gaming]

Or possibly two USB dongles. Finding the dongles isn't hard, it's the paying for them that is.

Well if you see and drift ones browsing around, let me know! I see FNF ones! ALSO. Information sparse but I realize they may be patched files bypassing the dongles altogether?? If it's the case of putting the hard drive in a dock in another pc and replacing an .exe I would love more info if it is that!

 

[pcjohn]

Hmm really? Never had issues using older faf io boards. Perhaps they changed this in latest software releases.

Yes, I converted a couple FnF to Drifts a couple years ago and they wouldn't work with the IO boards. Luckily I had a stack of boards from destroyed games. I still have the old ones somewhere.

 

[bigdenny]

Interesting. Maybe it's only the ones with the open chip socket or something

 

[Gregolso]

Old thread revival!
I can confirm that the upgrade kit doesn't seem to like my version 1 IO board as there is zero force feedback on 1.27u
Ironically I threw in a different dell running 3.04 and a dedicated dongle and it had no issue with the force feedback, but as I was only borrowing it, I now need to find another one. Is there any recommended version I should look at?
P.s. and mine does have the open chip socket.