Sim Racing Like It's 1996! | Rebuilding a Thrustmaster T2

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Sim Racing in the 90s was, well, a little different. This Thrustmaster T2 wheel, sans force feedback* was my entry point to the hobby back in 1996, and in today's video, I track down and restore one of those wheels to it's former glory, as my contribution to the retro gaming cannon.
As far as sim racing wheels go, the Thrustmaster T2 was actually ahead of it's time. Long before Force feedback, they implemented a crude, but well, crude wheel self centring system ,which was uncommon on racing sim gear at the time.
Tracking down and rebuilding a Thrustmaster T2 has been a bucket list item for me for a long time, not least of all because of how much time I spend watching retro gaming content on youtube. But, as much of a nostalgia trip it has been to recreate this classic sim racing wheel, I think I'll probably stick with it's modern force feedback equipped descendants!
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@Yoda_NZ 3 года назад

Oh the glorious memories this brings back. Up until my bungee broke. :( Thanks for memory. R.I.P my old T2

@ChrisHaye 3 года назад

Looking at the design, I suspect the bungee was the strongest part of that mechanism!

@teresawright4454 2 года назад

Lol I only remember this wheel cause a friend always loved playing and chatting about it went to try it out everything was broken lol.

@GPLaps 3 года назад

Literally the dream back in the late 90s. I sooo wanted one of these when GPL came out

@ChrisHaye 3 года назад

I was very lucky. Dad bought it off a co-worker I think, it certainly wasn't new. They were like £200 IIRC, which was a hell of a lot of money for a peripheral at the time.

@idk-xd8te 2 года назад

Why hello there go laps fancy seeing you here

@DYNANiK.official 2 года назад

Hello GPLaps =)

@geetuz 7 месяцев назад

completely transformed my experience of GPL once I bought mine. I couldn't believe it. Catching over steer with it was an absolute thrill haha. Actually really enjoyed I NFSSE too!

@jcoulter43 3 года назад

That was my first wheel! I still had it when I had my first child and have photos of him driving with it when he was 2. He's 21 now. Good times and great memories Chris. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane. GP Legends and Nascar Racing from Papyrus were all I would play for a few years. God bless and race on 😎👍

@ChrisHaye 3 года назад

I'd love to know what happened to our original one, though I suspect it met it's end the same way most electronics of the time did. The Papyrus Nascar game, and Indycar were staples as well. I miss the days of looking up a word in the manual as a form of copy-protection :)

@jcoulter43 3 года назад

@@ChrisHaye I'm pretty sure mine met its end at a landfill somewhere. I think I bought the Microsoft Sidewinder to replace it, kids got older, priorities changed and no forceback wheel for me until now (still played racing games, but console, with a controller only). Just getting back properly into the hobby with a wheel setup. Will be upgrading to full proper rig and pro-grade wheel/pedals once last kid is out of college. Right now, getting bye with the FGT-Lite and a Thrustmaster TMX Pro and pedals. Not ideal, but it's got my blood pumping for better gear and games to match! Keep up the great work. Love your videos!

@mrodg88 3 года назад

Same, I still have my T2 somewhere (as well as the black Momo Racing which I also still have.) Also have photos (digital from a Casio digital camera, still have it) of my now 20 yo daughter playing with the wheel. I raced with ICR2. Back then you raced "online" via uploading replay data to a website and everyone's replays were compared to determine a winner

@michaelwren5785 3 года назад

A big hit of nostalgia here! I brought one of these second hand 20 odd years ago that gave me a huge step up from the keyboard after discovering "Grand Prix Legends". I immediately grafted a couple of switches on to wheel that gave me "paddle" shifters. Lots of DIY hardware since then. Thanks (as always) for a great video Chris!

@ChrisHaye 3 года назад

We had the same experience. It always amazes me how natural using the keyboard felt at the time... naivety has it's perks!

@GregzVR 2 года назад

_"Times really have changed..."_ Haha I see what you did there, I love it. TM should release a modern version of the rim at least, as a nod to this epic nostalgia. throw in a copy of Power F1 too!

@timwelch175 2 года назад

Id do you one better and say this would make the perfect shell for one of those emulator rigs containing all of the games that wheel was worth using on from the era, similar to the way they are making Sega and Nintendo units to do the same thing...

@ChrisHaye 2 года назад

That's a genuinely brilliant idea! If I ever track down another one, I'll give that go I think. Maybe fit something like a Raspberry Pi inside and run one of the Arcade focussed OS on it.

@ChrisHaye 2 года назад

I really like the rim. It's a little undersized, but it has great 80s F1 vibes about it. Would be nice to pick something like that up for the proper sim rigs, but the 'classic replicas' are all quite pricey!

@bblocker68 3 года назад

Got mine for Indycar Racing 2. That was the greatest Bungee Cord wheel, ever!! Sim-altering purchase, for sure.

@ChrisHaye 3 года назад

I don't remember much about the second game.... but I do remember convincing dad that we needed the first one, since our Nige was in it!

@soundbelch1600 3 года назад

As a confirmed guitar pedal nerd, I'm finding myself liking your soldering as much as anything in the video. Very tidy!

@ChrisHaye 3 года назад

Guitar pedals are where I picked up my (limited) skills. I'm a sucker for DIY fuzz pedals, you can never have too many!

@MrCatalysis101 3 года назад

I seem to remember the pots drifting all the time. Things have improved, but massive nostalgia.

@ChrisHaye 3 года назад

Likewise - the signal I was getting with the gameport adapter was pretty... lumpy! But the bodnar board did a much better job thankfully.

@vgaportauthority9932 Год назад

I had this one, swapped it for the european version of the Thrustmaster Nascar Pro wheel... It felt like the height of luxury back then in 1998 or so. The built in shifters in these old timey wheels were a great addition imo. I played so much Viper Racing on that thing! Thanks for the video, really brought me back in time.

@willw681 3 года назад

I didn’t even know sim racing was a thing then! Idk why but something about that wheel is kinda cool?

@ChrisHaye 3 года назад

I didn't know it was called Sim Racing at the time... and I had no idea there were people doing it on the internet either. It took me another 10 years before I ventured into that minefield! :D

@franklinnash 3 года назад

My first wheel was the Microsoft Sidewinder Wheel & Pedal set. It was the bees knees at the time. Once I upgraded to a PC without a gameport I had a genuine sense of grief that my wheel was at the end of its life.

@ChrisHaye 3 года назад

Dad was always much more into flight sims, and we had a sidewinder stick, which I remember being miles better than anything we had used before. But I remember the same sense of dissapointment when we moved over to a PC without a gameport. It took quite a few years before anything else appeared to replace it IIRC. Microsoft really did get those peripherals right!

@JCDagz 3 года назад

Yes! My first "real" wheel setup when I drove the crap out of Indycar Racing and Sportscar GT. Good times!

@simracingwales4997 3 года назад

Ho my god thrustmaster T2 what a treat :D :D not seen one in a very long time .

@ChrisHaye 3 года назад

I think they're like lost cats, you need to check to see if they've wandered off into sheds and garages.

@vt6020 3 года назад

Nice restoration! I had the T1 model back in the day. I played IndyCar and NASCAR by Papyrus with it. I bought it after becoming frustrated with trying to race with my Thrustmaster flight stick. Good memories!

@ChrisHaye 3 года назад

I could never get on with a joystick for some reason, and preferred the keyboard! Doubly so with the Papyrus Indycar game, which for some reason I had no chance with on the stick!

@rogiemac 6 месяцев назад

That Nascar game was awesome back in the day. Could paint your own cars. I first experienced online racing with that game and the thrustmaster wheel.

@markusjuenemann 3 года назад

I have soooo many fond memories of the T2. I saved my sparse money for months to get one and I mostly used it for Grand Prix 2 and Network Q RAC Rally. This thing brought me so much joy and I'm happy you got yours running again. Well done, Chris! That you so much! And btw: This video includes the best cinematic shot of rubber bands I have ever seen in my life!

@knappedennis 2 года назад

my dad told me he had an thrustmaster t1 back in the day. and how he holds an world record with it! and it hasnt been (officially) broken!! (its on gp2 (on the special hot laps))

@ChrisHaye 2 года назад

Cool stuff! There are still people playing GP2 regularly, so that's much more impressive!

@coolbigandy 3 года назад

with that Wheel my PC Racing careerer started. Playing Michal Andretti Racing and N.I.C.E.2.

@ChrisHaye 3 года назад

It was GP2 and the first Papyrus Indycar game for me. I don't remember N.I.C.E at all!

@carlandersson4982 2 года назад

My dad got a yellow wheel Logitech for his 40th birthday. Non force feed back but with paddel gears! Played alot of STCC on that in the late 90's.

@PatrickMcTie 3 года назад

I was 22 at the time, and remember wanting one sooo bad! It would only be a few years later, and I saved a ton of money to buy a Thomas Super Wheel. 500 or so dollars at the time for a non force feedback wheel😅

@ChrisHaye 3 года назад

I had completely forgotten about the TSW. I remember seeing photos online and thinking they would be waaay out of my price range!

@PatrickMcTie 3 года назад

@@ChrisHaye I actually still have the wheel and pedal set, tucked away in a plastic storage bin. I was planning on replacing the potentiometers, when the legendary Logitech Momo wheel and pedal set came out. I picked that up, and couldn't bring myself to go back to non ffb.

@robertmitchell87 3 года назад

Takes me back to the days of my first wheel, a Microsoft Sidewinder Non Force Feedback wheel.

@Rankupinteractive Год назад

Hey Chris great video hopefully we can get more sim rig throwbacks from you on this channel

@danhoward5686 2 года назад

Whoa! I was watching your video on the G29 and you mentioned this bad boy which I had back in 96. Brought back memories.

@Ali-fl5mb 2 года назад

Fairly new to sim racing and your channel and I have to say your videos are great! Love your presence on camera and your use of language is really professional and clearly articulated. Well done!

@ChrisHaye 2 года назад

Thanks Ali - I spend quite a lot of time trying to plan out and structure things to be as concise and clear as possible. So it's always nice when people recognise the effort :)

@yourbraziliansimracer817 3 года назад

Beautiful video. Thanks, Chris! 🏁🇧🇷

@wanabdulhadi1268 2 года назад

Gotta say, this was a really fun and refreshing video.

@ChrisHaye 2 года назад

Thanks dude!

@Tony-Tech 3 года назад

Loved the video. I just purchased a new/old stock Logitech Momo wheel for my windows XP retro PC build. And I found a copy of Toca Race Driver 3. It's great fun to relive a 20 year old sim racing experience on all the old hardware. I am thinking about adding Grand Prix Legends to the PC as well. That was a favorite of mine back then also. If I do a Windows 3.1 retro PC, maybe I'll run NASCAR Racing on it from 1994. Or Bill Elliot's NASCAR Challenge. I spent a lot of time on those games in the 90's.

@ChrisHaye 3 года назад

I must admit, I've always had a soft spot for the Momo - if I ever get the urge again, I may try and do the same!

@mrodg88 3 года назад

@@ChrisHaye I can still remember the feel of the 270°Momo Racing and actually haven't been into sim racing since then until last year when I got a game PC for MSFS. Trying to use my G920 which I had for ATS, using it for racing is terrible. From what I remember of the Momo, it was far more precise in the FF feel than this gear driven G920 garbage

@alexharkettsimracing 3 года назад

Was loving this video up until near the end where I saw you were testing in 29 degree heat 🥵🥵🥵 - it took me back to that week recently where we all nearly died of heat exposure. Seriously though, another great vid man!

@ChrisHaye 3 года назад

Haha, indeed - it timestamps that recording fairly nicely I think ;)

@DYNANiK.official 2 года назад

This video is a masterpiece! Extremely interesting and very pleasant to watch!

@ChrisHaye 2 года назад

Thanks man, much appreciated!

@Nautzki 2 года назад

I loved my T2 to bits. Also I am very glad I will never ever have to use one of them again :)

@ChrisHaye 2 года назад

Haha - yeah, I get that!

@jrwstevenson 3 года назад

Fancy taking this to the next level Chris? Swap the internals out for something like a T150 or T300 for the full restomod experience? I'd love to see it!

@ChrisHaye 3 года назад

I am really tempted to do some kind of sleeper build. A small direct drive setup might be simpler, but that really starts to get into "is this really worth it" territory!

@aubreymarsh2309 2 года назад

@@ChrisHaye We want it

@sirflaps7619 2 года назад

@@ChrisHaye please do this and make it a mini series

@debozebever 3 года назад

Chris... We need more Kazoo in our lives... thanks for that

@ChrisHaye 3 года назад

Haha - when I was browsing the sound library it immediately jumped out at me. I usually use my own music, but I didn't really have anything that fit the, err... mood!

@mrb552 3 года назад

Great video! Had that same one with even earlier, more crude gas and brake pedals. They were circular wheels that spun when you pressed them down. This controller might be why I still race in socks to this day with my Heusinkfeld Sprints. 🙂🏁

@ChrisHaye 3 года назад

Ah yeah, I remember seeing those - that's a real blast from the past! I don't race in socks, but I have been with the T2 since the pedals are so small!

@maasmarco 2 года назад

Oh my. I clearly remember buying this one. It was my first ever wheel. Loved it. Until the pedal spring broke. The spring was moved by the threading of a screw. It was designed to break sooner or later. Still fond memories.

@pavelstoikov3780 2 года назад

this was like movie for me and ur voice i so relax , new sub hare from bulgaria keep the good work chears 👌

@ChrisHaye 2 года назад

Thanks man! I have been known to send people to sleep! :D

@elbowsout6301 3 года назад

My first was the Logitech Momo Force... the red one with the leather rim. I rebought one off ebay a few years ago for the nostalgia of it. Got it working on Gran Turismo with a Drive hub. It has some bits rattling around inside. I should take some time and rebuild it. You have inspired me :)

@Weaseltube 3 года назад

I still have my old TM GP1, the one with paddles behind the wheel instead of foot pedals. This video confirmed for me what I should have known a long time ago - I need to throw it out.

@evodesignsracing5925 3 года назад

send it to him

@AndreMiguelLopes69 3 года назад

I already put mine on the bin a few years ago. That rs232 has no use today. Only on a retro PC with win98 and so on.

@GoneWalkabout 3 года назад

Lol, still have mine, with the box no less. Still have my old TSW and Logitech Momo too. Can’t seem to throw them out…

@AndreMiguelLopes69 3 года назад

Still got my G25, that i'm going to sell to friend and a T300 as a spare. Using a DD1 at the moment. A live time of simracing :)

@PedroSantos_83 3 года назад

Fantastic video!

@josephharper7880 3 года назад

Great video! Very nostalgic.

@slaphead90 3 года назад

I had a "Mad Katz" wheel that I bought specifically for the original F1 game on the PS One in '95 I think. It was basically the same thing with bungie "FFB". I had hours of absolute fun with that. I would have still had it, but I needed to dump a load of stuff when I emigrated from the UK. Nice trip down memory lane there. Thanks for that.

@myronianny 3 года назад

Aaahh how many memories among GP2 and F1 2000, childhood! When you were first talking about adapters, looking pots cables, I immediately thought about a Bodnar board and when you mentioned it I was like surprised ahah OT: it's sad that the only similarity between 1996 and 2021 was the "coming home" thing 😂

@StePhillips 3 года назад

I feel like I'm watching one of the iRacing tutorial videos! 😄 Love the varied content Chris, keep it coming

@ChrisHaye 3 года назад

Thanks Steve - I think I've said before, the main reason I do this is that I enjoy the craft of video-making, so keeping it varied keeps me sane!

@mikedolley937 3 года назад

All hail the bungie! since I only played the Papyrus NASCAR games at the time mine ended up with a bulit in bias for left turns.

@ChrisHaye 3 года назад

Haha - I can believe that. I don't think mine has the original bungee, looks too clean... and it's still surprisingly snappy feeling (within limits!)

@TurnRacing 3 года назад

This is so awesome!

@ChrisHaye 3 года назад

Heh, I prefer your build videos dude ;)

@CannyNico 3 года назад

This made me look up the wheel that I started on, an old Logitech WingMan Formula GP. Good memories on NFS Porsche with that badboy

@rogiemac 6 месяцев назад

I had this back in the late 90's. So much fun racing Nascar on it. Thanks for the nostalgia video

@cozydrift 2 года назад

Amazing content✌🏽

@CSOCSO 2 года назад

WHAT? TM was making wheels back then??? crazy. We had a microsoft sidewinder with force feedback. It as awesome. I was playing Viper Racing and Toca

@fitchyyboi 2 года назад

Still have mine!

@stuart9968 3 года назад

Microsoft FFB wheel anybody.?...anybody..? Nice job Chris, glad you're back you were missed

@ChrisHaye 3 года назад

Gracias! I keep ending up going down rabbit holes and spending far too much time on these videos!

@SeaGLGaming 3 года назад

This video may have just inspired me to get my old Thrustmaster NASCAR Pro Digital 2 working again. Use to play NASCAR Racing 2 and 3 on it when I was like 5. Restoring it and playing nr2003 with it would be quite fitting.

@ChrisHaye 3 года назад

I had to look that one up, I don't remember it at all. But amazingly, it looks like there are still drivers available from Thrustmaster!

@SeaGLGaming 3 года назад

@@ChrisHaye Yes! The wheel actually still works good as new and works with most games. However, the pedals don't work, and one of the buttons on the doesn't work. Plan on repairing those and then giving it a good cleaning.

@Donpande Год назад

I have one exactly like this, great times playing Need For Speed IISE and Indy Car. Maybe it's time for the old T2 to come out of retirement. I always thought that a clutch mod would be great on it. Great video by the way.

@Frankestein01nl 3 года назад

And there was me, with a very small pc joystick, with 2 buttons, Racing GP1,2, indianapolis 500 and lastly flying FS3 eh 4 and 5? in the late 80's early 90's... And you had a wheel! hahahaha Awsome review, well done Chris! Dont think we called it simracing yet back then...just racegames.. and an arcade was the place on the fairgrounds where one would play " on the arcade!"

@quickdraw1216 5 месяцев назад

Awesome video 👌👌👌👌👌👌

@fathersondiecast6521 2 года назад

pedal springs kept breaking but I was able to get a hold of a stash of replacements and had to replace one every few weeks it seemed but my wheel bungie never broke, that was when I was cutting my teeth in sim racing with IndyCar Racing2 and that Cleveland airport circuit. Ohh the memories

@ColeusRattus 3 года назад

I had one of those. Loved it on Goeff Crammond's Grand Prix 2 and the OG The Need for Speed

@lyypsie5663 3 года назад

me and my father restored a old Medion Racing wheel that we got for free from ebay, we cracked open a xbox controller and by Frankensteining the two together we got the wheel up and running, we also thought about buying the same adapter (not doing so seamed to be the right choice) we got done with that a week ago and im laughing my ass of that your doing something so simmilar only days after we got done! (sorry for my bad english its not my native language)

@ChrisHaye 3 года назад

Great to hear. I remember Medion, though I don't remember the wheel? I do recall them sponsoring the Spyker and later Force India F1 teams though, so I imagine there was some sort of marketing payoff from F1 at the time!

@bluewinggaming7583 3 года назад

You can use Grand Prix 2 with DosBox and still map a wheel to it. I play GP2 everyday. And I wanna get a Thrustmaster T2 for myself to play it.

@ChrisHaye 3 года назад

Yeah, I've managed it in the past. But for some reason this time around the No CD patch kept breaking it and producing the f1system.dat error. Even downloading the 'fixed' version didn't help. I have a CD, but no optical drive these days, so that's my next port of call. I ran out of tinkering time for this video, but I've not given up on it yet!

@Hjallapenos 2 года назад

Wow! Such a well made video! Was looking forward to you talking about the feels of the pedals more seeing as it had that cool feature. My feet start to hurt after racing for a long time with my t300, perhaps a similar design to these pedals would counter that. So yeah, I was bummed by the fact that you didn't talk about the feel of the pedals :(

@ChrisHaye 2 года назад

Thanks! And sorry for not talking more about the pedals. I leave quite a lot on the cutting room floor tbh, as I like a nice tight edit. I don't think the pedals would really help, the design does help things a little, but they're quite narrow and close together, which introduces new problems!

@Hjallapenos 2 года назад

@@ChrisHaye ok. Thanks

@donhodgdon7347 3 года назад

Sweet! My first wheel.

@carlosfandango2419 3 года назад

Analogue was quite amazing back in the day. Had a stick for my Amiga, used with F1GP it was a revelation, even at 6FPS! Got my first wheel with the Playstation, VRally and GT were amazing. However it wasn't until I bought a Windows XP PC and installed Grand Prix Legends that I finally felt what I would at the time describe as realism. It would be interesting to see you play this sim, although released in 1998 with community support it looks and feels modern.

@swagaliciousvettel5609 3 года назад

Wow the nostalgiaaaaa!!!!!

@BadDanMe 3 года назад

Cool, was my starter wheel too. Then: Microsoft Sidewinder FFB Wheel Logitech Driving Force Pro Logitech G25 later modded with an SRW S1 bolted to the G25 base Thrustmaster T500RS F1 Edition actual Thrustmaster TS XW Racer Sparco Edition (but still using the F1 Rim, cause the buttons on the Sparco sadly are totally rubbish). Really liked this throw back in history. 😎😁 Fun fact, I bought this Formula T2 because of the DEMO of Viper Racing.

@sevach 2 года назад

A friend had one of those (plus GP2 and the OG NFS), he set me on this path.

@GenXSimracer 3 года назад

I had one of these and the bungie cord is laughable now but when I used it as a kid I adapted well to it surprisingly.

@lancecougar 2 года назад

I can still remember staring longingly at its picture in the Argos catalogue.

@ChrisHaye 2 года назад

The laminated book of dreams!

@R33Racer 2 года назад

I remember using the Thrustmaster Grand Prix wheel (cheaper version of this) at my uncle's and trying it on Colin McRae Rally 1, it was superb.

@ChrisHaye 2 года назад

I never bought the Colin McRae games on the PC, though I'm wishing I had now. Probably a much better experience than on the PS1 d-pad!

@R33Racer 2 года назад

@@ChrisHaye I brought over a demo disc of it (and many other games) as it ran like crap on my dad's PC. My uncle just so happened to have the steering wheel out at the time so we installed it on his machine and I tried it first. I couldn't believe how good it was right from the get-go. He then tried it and he was amazed too, and ended up buying the full big box version. Despite the cheapness, that wheel, was surprisingly excellent, at least with that particular game. Probably a really good potentiometer.

@lookitsapotato7644 2 года назад

Damn that looks awsome

@Daz555Daz 2 года назад

I want to see a head-to-head. Chris and his T2 vs Jimmer and his £17 T-Racer wheel!

@ChrisHaye 2 года назад

Oh lord! So much PAIN!

@julioau 2 года назад

Yo... I have the wheel from that wheel... Didn't know it was that cool!

@ChrisHaye 2 года назад

Haha, yeah man! It's like most things; cool when it's released... then it's old rubbish... then it becomes retro and collectable cool. We're a weird species!

@benjohnson5222 3 года назад

So cool! Shame you couldn't get Grand Prix II working. I loved that game so much when I played it back in the late 90s and it's the game that is 100% responsible for my unhealthy sim racing addiction!

@ChrisHaye 3 года назад

Same. I enjoyed the first one, but GP2 really did capture my entusiasm!

@izagury 2 года назад

thats the first wheel that I owed!!

@DMAX_DIY 3 года назад

Good GOD! The Gyrations we had to go through for GPL... I just had some kind of full body shake to through my core.. DAMN it's so nice now.. And these younger SIMS are very lucky.. (of course the will be saying the same crap about 2021 when it's 2029)... ***Let me retire in PEACE! *** BTW.. nice retro challenge Chris.. DMax motion sim channel

@ChrisHaye 3 года назад

I missed out on the fun of GPL the first time around, which I still have no explaination for, since it was very much right up my street. I guess at 14 I had developed other interests!

@DMAX_DIY 2 года назад

@@ChrisHaye Dont we all at 14. HAHA

@isaacsrandomvideos667 2 года назад

That’s awesome

@-racingfan2014 3 года назад

My first wheel too 😁 that I got for my birthday!

@ChrisHaye 3 года назад

Heh. All I remember was struggling to stop the pedals from moving across the floor. It all came flooding back with this video!

@-racingfan2014 3 года назад

@@ChrisHaye same here. Very annoying. The spring of the gas pedal did break at some point and had to replace. Same with bungee cord.

@dogwithbees 3 года назад

I remember playing World Of Outlaws sprintcars and carmageddon 98 back in the day on one of these.. hooley

@ChrisHaye 3 года назад

Ahhh, Carmageddon - that's a name I haven't heard in decades!

@dogwithbees 3 года назад

@@ChrisHaye see if it works with the '96 thrustmaster :D

@rayrobinson2074 3 года назад

I still have my old RadioShack Multi-System wheel from back then. It could convert from car to motorcycle layout and had the extra axis to act as a flight yoke. Might have to look into that usb converter. I eventually upgraded to an MS Sidewinder.

@ChrisHaye 3 года назад

I'll admit, I had to look that one up. We didn't have Radio Shack in the UK, although there were stores owned by the same group I think (Tandy) - don't recall ever seeing those in our neck of the woods. Of course, this was really before social media and the like, so exposure to other sim racers required a much more concerted effort!

@rayrobinson2074 3 года назад

@@ChrisHaye I couldn't find anything on Google, the only label on the wheel just has: Cat No 26-9400A, Manufactured in China for TAN Canada/America/UK. I think I bought it more for the flight sim ability but did try it out on lots of the games people have listed here. Back then, you spent more time configuring drivers than actually racing.

@sillychameleon4273 2 года назад

good video liked and subscribed

@ChrisHaye 2 года назад

Thanks for the sub my dude!

@LeeFall 2 года назад

Screamer 2 was my first racing game, I think that was around 1996 too.

@CherniavskyDen 3 года назад

1996! Michael Schumacher joins Ferrari. And me - I`ve got my first PC and a PC game - Grand Prix 2. And I can only dream about a wheel, so keyboard all the way. Untill 2001 and Thrustmaster Force Feedback Racing wheel came along.

@ChrisHaye 3 года назад

I don't think I reaslised at the time how lucky I was. Dad picked up the wheel second hand, and I had no concept of how expensive it was. Even then it was nearly £200, so around double that now... which seems mad!

@bluex610 2 года назад

Hold on to that, probably will go up in value in the future

@ChrisHaye 2 года назад

Well, it might have if I hadn't replaced all of the electronics :D

@KennethDK 2 года назад

I remember trying to "convert" my trusty WICO joystick into something usable for racing games. And of course, bought the Trustmaster T2 ... killing my piggybank in the process :o)

@ChrisHaye 2 года назад

From what I remember, we went from a slightly dodgy analogue joystick to the T2, which was a night and day difference. You're right about the price though, they were very expensive at the time. Something like £200 new, which I guess is equivalent to 3-4x that amount in today's money.

@planetzing7796 2 года назад

Very very well done video. Most RU-vidrs would stretch something like this into a 15 minute rumbling of nonsense. Definitely earned a subscribe from me

@ChrisHaye 2 года назад

Thanks man! I try my best to be as ruthless as possible in the edit these down to keep the run-time sensible. I don't always succeed!

@Taverius 2 года назад

That logo tho 😎

@chickenjonte_ 3 года назад

Content is great and humour is on point as always. Quality over quantity!

@ChrisHaye 3 года назад

Thanks man! Much appreciated.

@ErnieGaming 3 года назад

My first racing wheel. 😍

@lukajalo8635 2 года назад

4:32 wow i have never in my life seen this channel before and we have the same usb hub

@ChrisHaye 2 года назад

Haha!

@robertyates6913 3 года назад

Great video. Believe it or not my current usable wheel rig is a Logitech Formula Force Wingman USB, with nice FFB from 1998. Plays all the modern games, AC, ACC, AMS2, BeamNG, Project Cars2 on my Windows 7 Gaming machine - with GTX3090 (yes you read this correctly). I'm wondering if I'm the only person in the Universe running this system.

@ChrisHaye 3 года назад

I think it's highly possible! I can't imagine there are too many people with a bleeding edge video card and.... Windows 7!

@jamiebuffing 3 года назад

Maybe a poor choice of track (brands hatch) right after the crash, but great video and it looked like a fun project I want to try it now!

@QuixEnd 3 года назад

Ive got this ps1 wheel and pedal setup that I played Nascar 2000 with and it's completely different from this t2. More like an arcade wheel but feels pretty good

@ChrisHaye 3 года назад

Ah that's really cool. There quite a few wheels like that that popped up at the time. Would be great to track a few more down for the Studio.

@hewfil1 Год назад

Currently using the RockFire adapter myself to use an original Thrustmaster NASCAR Pro wheel with game port. Unfortunately the potentiometer in the brake pedal recently broke and I've been trying to find a replacement.

@Trekkerfahrer 3 года назад

I had one of these.... was my first wheel and i played Grand Prix 2 on it

@pitspeedtv 3 года назад

🤣😂🤣 That was my first wheel! FIRS, hotlapping, and hours!

@davidmann1871 3 года назад

I noticed the empty spot for the clutch pedal. Was there a better model that included it? Did any games support a clutch pedal back then?

@ChrisHaye 3 года назад

I did some reasearch, and I think they never made it to market. At least, I can't find any evidence of it.

@adrianstevenson9464 Год назад

This was my first pc wheel back in the mid 90's. Didn't last long before the "Force Feedback" stopped working. Pulled it apart to find a bungee cord inside and it had fallen apart inside. Put it back together and continued on. I was really quite surprised to find I had paid like $400 for something so cheaply made.

@migueldenboer5186 2 года назад

Would be an interesting video to use the t2 as a housing for modern sim tech. Like idk a g29 internals in a t2

@johnnybanana8004 3 года назад

awsome

@ChrisHaye 3 года назад

Gracias Senor Banana!

@jimmy-the-bear Год назад

I had one of these and used to play Rally Championship which was an absolute blast. I just googled that game and god the graphics are far worse than I remembered LOL.

@LeightonW87 3 месяца назад

Just bought one of these wheels thinking I could adapt it over to USB, I must have bought a bad adapter as Windows doesn't even notice it, do you remember if you had a guide on rewiring the T2 wheel as I likely will try it myself.

@MarkoVuckovic32 3 года назад

This wheel is actually older than me. I really like seeing how technology used to be in the previous century

@ChrisHaye 3 года назад

On one hand, it really doesn't feel like that long ago... but equally, this basically has nothing in common with modern equipment. So, in short, time is cruel!

@liamcdm3689 3 года назад

Also older than me. By about three years lol

@MarkoVuckovic32 3 года назад

@@liamcdm3689 It's about four years in my case

@danielsgrunge 2 года назад

A pot for the steering input is kinda genius if you think about it

@ChrisHaye 2 года назад

It's basic, but it works. Though, they do suffer from drift and signal issues once they get a bit dirty.

@siwhite_ 3 года назад

I wanted one, but the cost was too much. Ended up struggling with a very unergonomic analogue joystick. I can't remember the name but the base was square. Yeah, like that fits the palm of your hand well... Full race distance in ICR2 left indentations on my hands from the harsh joystick corners.

@ChrisHaye 3 года назад

I mean, still better than using the keyboard I guess! We were lucky, IIRC my dad bought it off of a coworker that didn't get on with it. But they were really expensive, something like £200 at the time if memory serves.