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I have an old madCatz racing wheel for the playstation 2. The gas and brake pedals are connected to the wheel by a serial port. I just bought a usb racing wheel for the PC but it lacks pedals so I wanted to see if I could get these old madCatz working. I just installed the serial port in my motherboard, but now I have a problem with software. Nothing will recognize the pedal. I was wondering if there are any programs or drivers out there that will allow me to set the pedals up to work. Any advice would be appreciated!

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it's theoretically possible to do, but will take some work. the pedals may not be using a standard pinout for the "serial connection". best place to start is by digging up any specs/schematics you can for the specific model you have. you may be looking at disassembling the pedals and/or writing your own drivers for them. – quack quixote Mar 14 '10 at 1:51
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It may use a DE-9 (no, it's not DB-9) connector, but that doesn't mean it's RS232 serial. In fact, it almost certainly isn't. If I'm correct on this, that means they won't work.

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kind of what i meant by "non-standard pinout" in my earlier comment. but you're not quite correct; it doesn't mean they won't work, it just means they won't work without additional hardware -- you'd need some sort of adapter to translate from RS232 to whatever the pedals use. – quack quixote Mar 14 '10 at 2:30
@~quack: The original question specifically stated "I was wondering if there are any programs or drivers out there that will allow me to set the pedals up to work." -- and if they use a nonstandard pinout as I suspect (and suggested), the answer is no. Building a custom interface was not asked, nor is it reasonably within the scope of the question asked. – Alexander Burke Mar 14 '10 at 7:58
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