by glasshorsevh » Fri Dec 01, 2017 12:49 pm
I have a Scalextric Track and added an Arc One some time ago, but had a lot of trouble with cars not registering laps. This happened even with cars using black or blacked-out guide flags. Most of the cars having issues were my scratch-builds, but the actual Scalextric cars were fine. It works best if your track is in one of the Scalextric “out of the box” layouts, but you lose some of the “game” features if you have a custom layout like my 38’ Ascari style track (as mentioned in Robert Schleicher's Book). I also would have liked more statistical reporting and some form of archival interface that worked. There is some of that, but it’s pretty sketchy. I will also tell you that Scalextric controllers are abysmal and I modified it to use my beloved PM controllers, which limited more “gaming” features. It would still do pit stops for fuel and the general racing stuff. I thought it had a lot of merit if only it worked a bit better with non RTR cars. It really is a great idea and I actually swapped to an iPad because of it. I may snap it back in and work with it some more at some time.
Val