JVS Emulator

[bobbydilley]

It occoured to me the other day that I put a thread up about using a Wii remote with the Sega Naomi and never updated it with what became of that project, so I thought I would do that today.

Introducing... OpenJVS.

https://github.com/bobbydilley/OpenJVS

OpenJVS is a JVS I/O emulator that runs on a Raspberry Pi 2/3 (or another linux computer) and allows you to use USB Peripherals to play your JVS games. For example you could just a USB wheel to play outrun, or a PS4 controller to play Monkey Ball or a Wii Controller to play The House Of The Dead!

Although it requires some technical know how to get running, I've been developing it for a good few months now and it is fairly stable!

Below are some links to videos about the project, if you need any help or want to use it don't hesitate to ask!

Outrun 2 SP with PC Wheel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNEzEyUANZw

Let's Go Jungle with Joystick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEdKWtFt3tE

Tutorial Video (sorry for awful video!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO0CNhGjoU0

 

[mozie]

Remember reading about this on arcadeprojects and wondered what happened to it, this is so useful, thanks so much for your work. ill give it a go the weekend. Did you get lightguns working after? Any chance you could share preconfigured image for ps4 controller?mozie2019-04-03 23:46:25

 

[slowcade]

Very interesting indeed! I hope this doesn't sound rude, but do you know if there are any projects out there which try to accomplish the opposite? Namely to use a modern PC inside a JVS (racing) cabinet, and to have working analogue controls and force feedback?

 

[bobbydilley]

If you need any help feel free to message me over the weekend. In terms of light guns, an Aimtrak would work but would need a map file written (which wouldn’t take long), at the moment I’m developing the Wii remote code for release so you should be able to use Wii light guns on the next release. The maps are all in /docs/config/maps/ in the repo and get installed to /etc/OpenJVS/maps/ and they contain some example ones. There is a map there for playing Crazy Taxi with a PS4 controller, and that can easily be modified for other games.

Haha don’t worry it’s not rude, lots of people ask that! Yes there is, the jvspac does what you want and I’ll go and find a link to it. Force Feedback is a different story as it’s not done through JVS. Each game has its own protocol for running the FFB so it depends what cabinet you’ve got, and if anyone’s written that yet.