Mad Catz MC2 Frustration

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I have had my Mad Catz MC2 Universal Steering Wheel since my birthday in January. I played it with GT3 and it was alright. (For Christmas I got a Momo Racing Force Feedback Wheel, but it's incompatible with GT3 and GT4 :( ). I am using it with GT4 and it pisses me off. Why? Because of the steering. There is very little control. It's really hard to keep the car steady, especially on a narrow road (eg. Nurburgring, and the second long straight on Circuit de la Sarthe after Mulsanne Straight.) I use the calibration feature on the steering wheel, but car control is still really sluggish. I know that the DFP is the best steering wheel around, but I doubt my parents will buy me another wheel. Does anyone else have similar problems with this steering wheel?
 
There's somebody on here who loves his MC2, but I can't recall the name off the top of my head. Do a Search for "mad catz wheel" and see what turns up. I think he started a thread on it.
 
Mr. Boy
...I use the calibration feature on the steering wheel, but car control is still really sluggish...
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Are you aware that the calibration doesn't "stick"? You have to calibrate out that ridiculous center deadband every time you start up your PS2!

Lord knows why Mad Catz put that stupid deadband in at all, and there is absolutely no reason whatsoever for it to be the default! What are they thinking of?

That said, I've used an MC2 for over two years, and no, it doesn't have quite the precise control of a DFP at high speed (when trying to track a white line, for instance), but I wouldn't call it "sluggish". I'd call the initial input "soft" compared to the "harder" input of the DFP.

Are you adjusting out the deadband every time you turn on your PS2?
 
Zardoz
Are you aware that the calibration doesn't "stick"? You have to calibrate out that ridiculous center deadband every time you start up your PS2!

Lord knows why Mad Catz put that stupid deadband in at all, and there is absolutely no reason whatsoever for it to be the default! What are they thinking of?

That said, I've used an MC2 for over two years, and no, it doesn't have quite the precise control of a DFP at high speed (when trying to track a white line, for instance), but I wouldn't call it "sluggish". I'd call the initial input "soft" compared to the "harder" input of the DFP.

Are you adjusting out the deadband every time you turn on your PS2?
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I'll see if I could find a good deadband setting later.
 
Mr. Boy
I'll see if I could find a good deadband setting later.
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The good deadband setting is zero, zip, zilch, nada!

Press the calibration button, then D-Pad down three times to close the two red lines up to just one in the middle. Then D-Pad left to spread the two green bands out as far as possible. You want one red line in the middle and the two green ones out as far as they can go.

Very annoying that we have to do this, but fortunately it only takes about three seconds to do it.
 
Zardoz
The good deadband setting is zero, zip, zilch, nada!

Press the calibration button, then D-Pad down three times to close the two green lines up to just one in the middle. Then D-Pad right to spread the two yellow bands out as far as possible. You want one green line in the middle and the two yellow ones out as far as they can go.

Very annoying that we have to do this, but fortunately it only takes about three seconds to do it.
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I've set the deadband one click above zero and its now working just fine. Thanks. 👍
I just wish that the steering was a bit heavier...
 
It's like that with my fanatec speedster wheel. You can adjust the sensitivity ect, but it never feels quite right. It always needs extra work to even out the steering - turn to the left, and it goes too far, and ou have to even it out by turning it the other way, and then that is too far .... The settings are either too sensitive or not sensitive enough. When you do eventually get the right settings, and it's 2 in the morning, you have to turn off the ps2, and loose all of your settings. It's a stupid peice of s***, but i don't think my parents would let me buy a dfp :(, mainly because the cheapest place i've seen them is online, and untill i have a credit card, everything online goes through her.


Here's my wheel:

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ummmm how far does it rotate? because im expecting to get one on August 12th which is in like 3 days any recommendations? *and dont even say get the DFP because mah parents dont have the cash *tear* (actually they do but they dont want to spend that much)
 
try the williams f1 racing wheel. If you're in the uk you can get it for £49.99 in argos. I posted a demo video of it whihc is drifting round this forum somewhere. There's also pics of it in my cockpit thread which you can find in my sig and in the wheel compatibility list.
 
I have been using this wheel for a while now, and I've had no problems until recently.

One day I was racing a Nissan Fairlady Z S-Tune GT at a Nissan Z spec race at Tokyo R246 reverse. I was in first place on the first lap, and coming out of the penultimate corner, I hit the outside corner rather awkwardly and spun out. I was using the wheel, but I had no feeling of panic. I didn't hit the kerb and know I was gonna spin out. Also, I don't quite get that feeling of being one with the car I'm driving (I know its a videogame, but its Gran Turismo for crying out loud!). Does anybody else complain about this aspect of the wheel?

I still wish that blasted Momo wheel would work with GT4!
 
I use both the MC2 and DFP while playing GT3-GT4 and Enthusia.

I tried using the MC2 wheel with GT4......Ugh....Never going to do that again. It's mainly the games slow response and it thinking of it like a joystick on the controller.

Get a USB steering wheel. DFP is down to $100 and the version with no stick shift and no 900 mode that's compatible with everything is like $80
 

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