SNES exercise bike conversion

[monkeychemist]

Hello everyone,

has anyone ever thought of or tried to convert a regular stationary bike to work on the SNES games that they have. I would like to try that out since I dont really have the 2-3k to blow on the real thing. Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Jeremy

[RugalSizzler]

Well they already have these kinds of games or what you are looking for is a specialty controller.

They have one for the NES. It is a blow up bike.

The PS2 has something like this which is a half a car used in the testing labs.

Also Exsersize bikes already have built in game systems or simulations where the person thinks they are biking and a screen displays a path or road. This is a close as you could get to accomplishing your goal.

The only hard part I see is installing a turning mechanism that allows to turn or lean left to right like in real life. That would probably be a huge panel on the floor and when you lean thein game would lean and indicate that you are leaning and when you steer the game should also steer.

If you look up exercise bikes from 80's to the 90's and we should be able to find such a bike with a built in simulation. The bike itself is the controller so you should be able to remove this bike and use a regular snes controller wire and match up the wires. This also could be done with a game port, the regular data port we do not use now**, mouse/keyboard port and usb ports.

I forget the scematics for it. It should be somewhere on the web showing you in color which pin reacts to X pin. All controllers that is wired follows the same or related schematics. Thus all of them could be modefied to be pluged or used with such device.

A great example of this usage is the DDR GCN mat that insteads of using official DDR it just locks into the GCN buttons allowing you to play any game you want with the DDR mat.

** by this I am talking about the

Parallel ( printer port and still in use as a data port )
Serial port (used mostly for the mouse)
Giant data transfer port (basically the Ethernat port back in it's days)

[udisi]

The Exertainment bike shouldn't cost you 2-3k. Really if you wait around a bit, you'll see one on ebay for $500-$750.

[FABombjoy]

And who knows... maybe in the eight months since the original post, he may have even found one!

[RugalSizzler]

The only reason I decided to join this fourm was this intresting post. I am more suprised that nobody thought about ripping a bike controller from another machine and making there own controller.