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| mrtuesday42:
hey guys. this is my first post. i have been reading and reading because i am currently in the process of converting my first cabinet. i have a question about converting another cabinet though. i think its possible in theory but i wanted some second opinions on converting a Lethal Enforcers to MAME. im not sure i want the cabinet if i cant do anything with it other than enforcers, but i was thinking that it might be possible to convert it to mame and have two working guns. is this impossible??? if it was a time crisis or house of the dead i wouldnt care about the mame but its enforcers and its 200$ so not a bad deal imho. ive searched this forum and the internet in general and have found nothing useful. so either im totally missing it or its just impossible and no one is talking about it. thanks either way. |
| WhereEaglesDare:
do you only want gun games or do you want all kinds of mame games? all kinds of things are "possible" you could absolutely turn anything up to and including a toaster into a mame machine... |
| bkenobi:
Arcade guns may be possible to connect to a PC, but it requires a $200 interface board that no one has tried yet. Assume that the guns will not work and that you need to buy something different if you want to use MAME. |
| matsadona:
You have other options. But that means replacing the guns or the gun sensors. I use the TopGun LCD gun in my MAME cabinet, and that works fine. I.e. that I can use it for any shooter like Terminator 2, Operation Wolf, Under Fire or Cheyenne. Maybe you can fit the new Ultimarc gun sensors in the original guns, which of course would be a better solution. But please, if you convert it to MAME, do it as transparent as possible. Don't add joysticks and spinners etc and make it an ugly mutant. If you keep the original gun housings, but with other sensors and a MAME PC, it would be hard to tell for anyone if it is the original or not. |
| Turnarcades:
It may be awkward to do a gun conversion as with a PC setup you will inevitably need extra buttons to navigate menus etc. Also, if the cabinet uses a mirror to a lower- mounted screen you may find it difficult to install or calibrate PC gun hardware to be accurate. Thirdly, most gin offerings are still imperfect at the moment and none cover all bases, either due to calibration issues, game compatibility or functionality (such as differing reloading methods between games and some lack of 2 player support) so a dedicated light gun conversion doesn't seem to be worth it at this point. If you rip out all the hardware and make it all PC based it may be ok but the varied software setups and game compatibility issues may still give you headaches |
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