Atari Badlands - I want to convert to MAME

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Atari Badlands - I want to convert to MAME - I have a question.

« on: January 20, 2015, 03:49:03 pm »

Championship Sprint is one of my all time favourites...
The odds on me finding one in ANY condition in my area is slim - I did however manage to pick up a Badlands!
Badlands is Atari trying to ride the wave of MadMax - Beyond Thunderdome popularity and they took Championship Sprint and made it all post apocalyptic.

That being said, My Badlands Cabinet is a Dynamo Conversion with a bad paint job and not so great wiring...

What I want to do is get one of those Jamma Fingerboards plug the Jamma harness into it and plug the USB into a small PC I have wich would run mame and voila I can run Badlands AND Championship Sprint, not to mention Off Road and a few other racing games.

My question is:
Will mame just figure out the 'spinner' part of the steering wheels or is there a lot of playing involved to make this work?


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« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2015, 10:56:55 pm »

I don't think it should be that difficult. You will need to get an optipac to interpret the spinners signals.


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Re: Atari Badlands - I want to convert to MAME - I have a question.

« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2015, 04:29:57 pm »

What part of the world are you in? I have a Championship Sprint that I believe is in poor condition (haven't seen it in a while). It is in storage right now but, if you're near central Ohio....

Just a thought. I had planned to restore sometime this summer but I could be talked into selling.


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