Super Mario Kart driving simulator system
Watch Super Mario Kart running on the 301 motion platform. It’s a driving simulator system bult by Force Dynamics that they jokingly hooked up to a SNES to race around Mushroom Kingdom tracks. The force feedback is crazy cool!
A quick FAQ by the creator:
“1. Yes, my driving is lousy. I’m used to hardcore racing sims and it’s been 15+ years since I spent any time with MK. I had about an hour with the machine actually running Mario Kart, since we built it for another project, and the video you see was the first take. Also, I had some specific goals (the jump, the bumps, the mole) that made driving well secondary.
2. The reaction speed is quite good – about 10ms from game event to machine motion. Watch during the jumps.
3. I tried it with a ‘normal’ 301 using the steering wheel. It’s next to impossible, because the control inputs are on/off, not analog, so you have to whip the wheel back and forth like a madman. We’d have to write code to pulse-width-modulate the output from the wheel. Plus, it’s Mario Kart. You -have- to play it with a gamepad.”
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