The Definitive Driving Cab Rom List

[Tempest]

Yeah, if you end up with a more complete list...POST IT! I spent a few hours trying to come up with a good list of games, but I was just using an old version of controls.dat. I suspect that using MAWS or another method might produce a better list. Also, if you figure out a good way to get 360° wheels working well with 270° wheel games, let me know. I was very disappointed, but probably gave up too easy.

Allrighty... I did a search in Romlister for driving games. It gave me 216 roms to start with....

I ran each game in Mame, and checked the controls for each game, and eliminated every one that didn't use a paddle, or a dial.

Any game that didn't work, or I didn't have the rom for, I verified at one of these three sites:

http://www.arcade-history.com/ (I was really impressed with this site, if KLOV diddn't have it, I found it here)

http://www.mamedb.com/category/Driving

http://www.klov.com/

I ended up with a list of 97 roms:

Pole Position II
Final Lap (Rev E)
Dirt Fox (Japan)
Four Trax
Lucky & Wild
Suzuka 8 Hours (World)
Suzuka 8 Hours 2 (World)
Speed Racer
Ridge Racer (Rev. RR2, World)
Ace Driver (Rev. AD2, World)
Rave Racer (Rev. RV2, World)
Cyber Cycles (Rev. CB2 Ver.C)
Ace Driver: Victory Lap (Rev. ADV2, World)
Street Heat - Cardinal Amusements
Datsun 280 Zzzap
Laguna Racer
Super Speed Race
Demolition Derby
Max RPM
Spy Hunter
Crater Raider
Spy Hunter 2 (rev 2)
Stocker
Night Stocker (set 1)
Grudge Match (prototype)
Grand Champion
Change Lanes
Buggy Challenge
Super Speed Race Junior (Japan)
Top Speed (World)
Enforce (Japan)
Special Criminal Investigation (World set 1)
Ground Effects / Super Ground Effects (Japan)
Side By Side 2
Pocket Racer (PKR1/VER.B)
Driver's Edge
Redline Racer (2 players)
Ironman Ivan Stewart's Super Off-Road
Ironman Ivan Stewart's Super Off-Road Track-Pak
Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat
Hang-On Jr.
Hang-On (Rev A)
Out Run (sitdown/upright, Rev B)
Turbo Out Run (Out Run upgrade, FD1094 317-0118)
Super Hang-On (sitdown/upright, unprotected)
Racing Hero (FD1094 317-0144)
Super Monaco GP (set 8, World, Rev B, 'Twin', FD1094 317-0126a)
Power Drift (World, Rev A)
Hot Rod (World, 3 Players, Turbo set 1, Floppy Based)
Rad Mobile (World)
Rad Rally (World)
F1 Exhaust Note
Slipstream (950515 BRAZIL)
OutRunners (World)
Stadium Cross (World)
WEC Le Mans 24
Hot Chase
Chequered Flag
Konami GT
Hyper Crash (version D)
Over Drive
Midnight Run
Winding Heat
Top Secret (Exidy) (version 1.0)
Night Driver
Sprint 8
Drag Race
Super Bug
Sprint 1
Fire Truck
Monte Carlo
Road Blasters (upright, rev 4)
Super Sprint (rev 4)
Championship Sprint (rev 3)
APB - All Points Bulletin (rev 7)
Hard Drivin' (cockpit, rev 7)
Race Drivin' (cockpit, rev 5)
Street Drivin' (prototype)
Hard Drivin's Airborne (prototype)
Bad Lands
Splendor Blast
Cruis'n USA (rev L4.1)
Cruis'n World (rev L2.4)
San Francisco Rush
California Speed (Version 2.1a, 4/17/98)
Speed Freak
Big Run (11th Rallye version)
Cisco Heat
Grand Prix Star
F-1 Grand Prix Star II
World Rally 2: Twin Racing
Speed Up
Radikal Bikers
1000 Miglia: Great 1000 Miles Rally (94/07/18)
Mille Miglia 2: Great 1000 Miles Rally (95/05/24)
Round Up 5 - Super Delta Force
American Speedway (set 1)

I found a couple of interesting things:

Lucky & Wild - Two player game that uses lightguns... the driver drives and shoots, and the passenger just shoots.

Night Stocker - Also uses a lightgun

Speed Freak - Vector Game

Race Drivin' - I left it in the list, but it also requires an Adstick device to play

Wheels Runner - Not on the list, but should be playable on a driving cab (I think it's a CHD game)

Here is the XML file:

driving.7z

If you load this in Romlister using "Settings and Tools" you can further search this list for screen orientation, or whatever you may desire. Also, you will be able to use the "batch output" to move your roms.

I checked, and 35 roms use a "dial", and 59 use a "paddle"... which adds up to 94.

If I search for !dial & !paddle, I get six games, one of which is "special criminal investigation", which definately uses a dial.

Bottom line... I believe this to be as complete a list as possible!

[bkenobi]

Awesome! I was going to grab it and take a look, but the link didn't let me download. Said something about being a bad xml format. Anyway, if you have a hint on the d/l or can repost a zipped version, I'll have a looksy!

[Tempest]

I updated the linky....

I gave this a little more thought on the controls issue... I just need to set inc, and dec, for the pedal, and that will probably make most of the games work (more or less) correctly out-of-the-box.

I should also mention that Speed Freak is a BLACK & WHITE vector game. I just thought some people would find that interesting...LOL

[clair]

I gave this a little more thought on the controls issue... I just need to set inc, and dec, for the pedal, and that will probably make most of the games work (more or less) correctly out-of-the-box.

Is that true? Most of these driving games will work with just setting the in and dec for pedal? Which ones?

[Tempest]

I gave this a little more thought on the controls issue... I just need to set inc, and dec, for the pedal, and that will probably make most of the games work (more or less) correctly out-of-the-box.

yep - that's a 100% true statement! (probably, more or less)

I'm going throught them now... When I'm done, I'll upload my romname.cfg's if you want, but then you'll have to program your controller to my keys, or write an AHK script to be able to use them.

[greatflash]

I updated the linky....

I gave this a little more thought on the controls issue... I just need to set inc, and dec, for the pedal, and that will probably make most of the games work (more or less) correctly out-of-the-box.

I should also mention that Speed Freak is a BLACK & WHITE vector game. I just thought some people would find that interesting...LOL

Much nicer than them new-fangled colour things.. Classics

[bkenobi]

BAHHH! It can't be as good as Fire Truck. Now that's a game. You and a buddy drive a fire truck to a fire that never materializes. Somehow you are directed to go in circles rather than just going straight there, but it's ok, cause there's no fire...apparently... Either way, you run out of fuel, so no worries. Oh, and it's BLACK & WHITE!!!

[greatflash]

Much nicer than them new-fangled colour things.. Classics

Regarding B&W vector games,

In the latest Retro Gamer Magazine, the final part of the reader survey for the greatest arcade games was published.

4. Asteroids.

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21. Tempest.

I wonder if that is because Asteroids is a more ICONIC game...

[Tempest]

Regarding B&W vector games,

In the latest Retro Gamer Magazine, the final part of the reader survey for the greatest arcade games was published.

4. Asteroids.

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21. Tempest.

I wonder if that is because Asteroids is a more ICONIC game...

I think you meant "MORONIC" or

"IRONIC", because if they waited a year, they could have played in COLOR!

I agree, even though it kills me to do so. I don't think Tempest was widely (understood) accepted, and if you had them both running side-by-side, more people would recognize Aste (Hem) roids. Now that I've finally agreed with you (you can pick yourself up off of the floor), I hope you don't think the razzing is over!

[LucasBarton]

Speaking of racing games, has the speed improved at all in Ridge Racer and Rave Racer? I'm still using an older version of MAME and it's slow as hell. I keep hoping they'll optimize it more so that it will run faster.

[headkaze]

Another game worth mentioning for a driving cab has to be Trackmania Nations which is a free PC game and really fun to play with a wheel.

[greatflash]

I think you meant "MORONIC" or

"IRONIC", because if they waited a year, they could have played in COLOR!

I agree, even though it kills me to do so. I don't think Tempest was widely (understood) accepted, and if you had them both running side-by-side, more people would recognize Aste (Hem) roids. Now that I've finally agreed with you (you can pick yourself up off of the floor), I hope you don't think the razzing is over!

Don't get me wrong though, much as i like Asteroids, Tempest is a far better game, Just Asteroids (being the first big hitting vector game) is more indicitive of that era.

[clair]

yep - that's a 100% true statement! (probably, more or less)

I'm going throught them now... When I'm done, I'll upload my romname.cfg's if you want, but then you'll have to program your controller to my keys, or write an AHK script to be able to use them.

Well I just tried to play A.B. Cop and although I was able to accelerate and slow down I could not turn left or right. What am I doing wrong?

[bkenobi]

A.B. Cop uses a paddle (270° steering wheel). If you are using a 270 wheel, you just need to map the "paddle analog" control to the wheel's axis. If you are using some other controls, you would probably need to set "paddle analog inc" and "paddle analog dec" to your controls. If you have a 360° wheel, I think you should be able to set "paddle analog dec" to "mouse X-" and "paddle analog inc" to "mouse X+" (depending on how you have your controls hooked up). If you aren't using a steering wheel, you can just use the keyboard right and left arrows for inc and dec.

[clair]

A.B. Cop uses a paddle (270° steering wheel). If you are using a 270 wheel, you just need to map the "paddle analog" control to the wheel's axis. If you are using some other controls, you would probably need to set "paddle analog inc" and "paddle analog dec" to your controls. If you have a 360° wheel, I think you should be able to set "paddle analog dec" to "mouse X-" and "paddle analog inc" to "mouse X+" (depending on how you have your controls hooked up). If you aren't using a steering wheel, you can just use the keyboard right and left arrows for inc and dec.

I only use keyboard. Well actually, its a cab with ultimarc's mini pac. No mouse, wheel, etc

[clair]

What's Pedal 2?

This is awfully confusing

[bkenobi]

Some games had multiple pedals. I can't speak universally, but I would guess that one is gas and the other brake.

[zx12rcarl]

Speaking of racing games, has the speed improved at all in Ridge Racer and Rave Racer? I'm still using an older version of MAME and it's slow as hell. I keep hoping they'll optimize it more so that it will run faster.

well just tryed ridge and rave racer with new mame and no guess to how its running! SLOW!

i have the full sitdown rave racer at home an its brill i love it so yep id like to see the ridge/rave racers working on my

mame cab.

oh well guess ya just have to use the psx versions of ridge racers for now!

[Tempest]

Whoops!

If you want the Atari Pole Posistions I and II, the roms are polepos1, and poleps2a. So much for the definitive list!

You will also need to set "No Clones" to "I Want Clones".

If you have a "split set" don't forget to move the parent roms too!

Edit: It looks like "Splendor Blast" shouldn't be on the list at all.