New Box to Play Battlestar Galactica
Posted by bensto in GAMES on 03 31st, 2008
If you completely maniac to Battlestar Galactica. You could bank and spin a Viper, the show’s signature spaceship, like a pro. So to prove it, some people built a full-cockpit flight simulator to enable total immersion in the BSG universe.
The key for our team was to make a structure that would truly give the feeling of being at the fighter’s helm. Started by MIG-welding a steel frame to position the controls and enclose the player, who sits in a leather seat recycled from a junked Mazda 929. Sealed and painted plywood covers the frame, while a yellow steel “gantry” provides a step to simplify entry—and holds a 42-inch Vizio LCD television.
A separate box houses a PC running Beyond the Red Line, a simulation game designed by BSG fans that lets you pilot the Viper. Since the game accepts only one input device, we had to use extra software to make it read the joystick, throttle and pedals as a single controller. Now it easily handles all the ship’s crazy X-, Y- and Z-axis twists and turns. It’s a joy to fly, but wannabe hot dogs take note: It turns out blasting Cylon raiders is a lot harder than it looks on TV.
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