Logitech GT Force on GT5

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Last night I dug though my attic and got out my old Logitech GT Force wheel... because I'm planning to gut it and hack it into a HAPP arcade FFB wheel for my arcade driving rig. Well, I decided to test it first, so I fired up the PS2 and played some Initial D. Worked great, just like I remembered.

SO hey, why not plug it into the PS3 and try it with some GT5? So I did... It was SO bad... and not "good bad" but "BAD bad." Even test laps were almost impossible to complete without spinning out. And the FFB was not really there, the wheel just sorta jerked and shuddered. It amazes me how much better wheels got from the GT Force to the DFP to the G27. I guess you can't go home again... but who would want to??
 
lol.. i know exactly what you mean.. the logitech driving force EX2 that i used ior the happ mod felt really really poor. it made the x360 wireless wheel seem like premium gear lol..

fortunatly though, by the time you've ripped it apart and modded a happ onto it, it'll feel totally different.

basically, all the driving force is, is a potentiometer, a simple dc motor and a couple of pcbs for comms.. and a load of cheap plastic.. basically the same as a g25/g27, just with a bigger motor and better quality plastic..

by the time you've modded the happ to it, it'll be totally different..
 
thesharkfactor
lol.. i know exactly what you mean.. the logitech driving force EX2 that i used ior the happ mod felt really really poor. it made the x360 wireless wheel seem like premium gear lol..

fortunatly though, by the time you've ripped it apart and modded a happ onto it, it'll feel totally different.

basically, all the driving force is, is a potentiometer, a simple dc motor and a couple of pcbs for comms.. and a load of cheap plastic.. basically the same as a g25/g27, just with a bigger motor and better quality plastic..

by the time you've modded the happ to it, it'll be totally different..
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Yeah, I'm excited about it. I just need a monitor and seat solution and I'll be ready to start piecing it all together. I'm sure I'll be tapping you for support before it's all over Shark! :lol:
 
I dont understood your post very well, but i have a logitech g27 in my ps3 and it's really great. I cannot complain for nothing....... excellent wheel.
 
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I dont understood your post very well, but i have a logitech g27 in my ps3 and it's really great. I cannot complain for nothing....... excellent wheel.
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The original poster (OP) is talking about the GT Force wheel, it came out like 7-8 years ago for Gran Turismo 3, they're saying the G27's an excellent wheel, and it is, two completely different products my friend.
 
correct.. we are not slating the g25/27 at all.. they are both good wheels.

what we are discussing is modifying an arcade machine force feedback wheel (the belt driven happ active wheel) to work with ps3 and gt5. to make this work, we use the circuit boards of an old logitech ffb wheel (driving force/pro/EX/EX2 etc) and hack/mod the arcade wheel and huge ffb motor onto the logitechs' circuit boards.

gunstar has been testing his donor wheel and commenting on how poor it was in comparison to modern wheels like the g25 etc.. and i was agreeing.. lol..

for more info on this mod if anyone is interested.. i have a thread(s) all about it here.. https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=138671
 
Thanks guys. I just wanted to throw out there for people looking for wheel info that these days the GT Force just doesn't make the grade in GT5... no dig on the G27 at all, I adore that thing!

In fact, I've owned almost every "Playstation" wheel Logitech has made, and I liked them all! For their time each of them was a top notch console driving experience.

Little history here... the GT Force was the official wheel of GT3. It was awesome to even have a console FFB wheel in it's day, and at the time it was SO much better than anything that had come out for a game system before. It was replaced by the Driving Force, which was the basically same wheel but now it had a D-Pad and all the buttons, making menu navigation MUCH easier. Then came the Driving Force EX, which I never owned, because it looked like a basic re-style without much functional change... then came the wonderful official GT4 wheel, the Driving Force Pro (which was IMO the first modern FFB wheel) and it was 900 degrees, had a built in stick shifter, better wheel feel, nicer pedals, the works. I used that thing for SIX YEARS, skipping the Driving Force GT and the (not "officially" Playstation) G25 and jumped right to the G27, which I'm LOVING so far!

Now my old GT Force will be given new life, as the brain of my new arcade cabinets FFB wheel. Thanks to the BRILLIANCE of thesharkfactors design, I got myself a cab with a HAPP FFB wheel and a up/down shifter (it'll replace the paddles) and I'll fit a modern monitor and a sound system and a REAL car seat (I'm sorry, but those plastic seats are okay, but if I can have better, why not?) into it and have a FFB arcade driving rig! Then hook up some MAME and output cables for the Playstation consoles and BOOM, driving game nirvana! But honestly, GT5 will probably spend most of it's time in the front room being played on the G27.
 

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