Blimey...! No-one...?

Phew, that makes me feel better...! Should be here any day now...! I will be playing GT4 though as that's all I have right now...!!! *excited*

I've got a gamer seat, superb for racing games and just using as a general chair for other standard controler type games.

Bought the alcantara one from here:

http://www.oopsitsgone.com/gone.php

Graham
Why are you not looking at the xbox market as well, seems silly to narrow the demographic by a third???

Comments on the seat, a little narrow for the 'larger' adult, any further ridgidity on the steering wheel would be good, but in all, i have to say its a pretty good piece of kit for the money.
How about adding a sandwich/ drinks tray on one side and a controler pocket on the other?

<LOL> yes we will look at the Xbox, but I dont think the xbox will use the same wheel, so I cannt demo it at the moment. They all use the same type of fittings though so shouldnt be a problem..

At the moment I have both pc and sony hardware and a g25 wheel so thats the starting point..

Width is an interesting point, as we'll make our own seats. in the cockpit version it will be part of the moulding in the ally frame ( which is designed to look good as well as be functional, well if you like engineering ;-) ) the seats are separate in either GRP or carbon !!

We also plan some optional body parts for that one as well..

We're also talking to motorsports harness peeps about some special non certified belts as an option... but is that an option too far, would you feel silly strapping yourself in to a game simulator in the front room?


Ultimately with the Ally framed unit we're looking at upgrades for motion as well, but they are a way off still. ALthough having a full on professional games programmer and an electronic engineer on tap will help there...

Hopefully in a few weeks we should have one of the prototypes up and running. Were currently playing with an mdf test rig for positioning and sizing, whilst also doing the styling..

Its an interesting project, and worst case is all the team end up with one and an excuse to play with the consoles..

I've been using a Gameracer seat for a couple of years now and would strongly recommend it for any racing game.
IMO it's well made, rigid, comfortable and fully adjustable.
DFP mounts fine and the Microsoft wireless wheel will fit but not so well (couldn't find a way to clamp it, so had to resort to using velcro).

For the man on a budget..

I am thinking about building one of these, its about £20 worth of MDF.


But using one of these 'X rockers' for a seat instead


Total cost will be less than £100 and you get a subwoofer under your arse for when you go over the curbs and stuff and speakers behind your ears so you can hear the accidents you are causing behind you.

This thread motivated me to finally build a prototype.

Yesterday i cam e up with this..



It took about four hours and a total of £78 including the rumble seat.


Sorry about the crap camera phone...

Well, my Gameracer arrived last week and it's fan-bleeding-tastic...!!!

Here's a pic of SWMBO getting to grips with Fuji in GT4 (And a bored dog watching)

Thanks

Plans?? That sounds complicated! I just started building it by sitting in the seat and holding things to see where they needed to be and making sure i put some wood there. To help you out a bit though. The side panels are 2ft high by 4ft long because i went and bought one sheet of MDF and had them cut into four equal bits and went from there.

Awesome. Rock steady, over-engineered with huge bolts etc, proper Corbeau seat is super-comfy, fully adjustable in seconds so you can have your mates round and the tall-boys and short-arses don't lose out, whole shebang strips down in 60 seconds flat for storage. I personally am not sold on the G25. I tried one and preferred my Driving Force Pro. Not much clutch support and I found the gearbox gate on the G25 very weak. Given my DFP was £50 brand new from an online game store, three times the price or more for the G25 just didn't stack up for me. If you already have a G25, then defo get a seat. The GameRacer Pro is the Rolls Royce of seats for sure...