Alternative Light Gun for Mame?

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Cooper:
Bummer! I was thinking about picking one up. Nice price and it came with 2 pc gun games. Oh well.... :P

GamingGreg:

--- Quote from: Carsten Carlos on September 17, 2003, 03:17:10 am ---Personally I think this is an ugly gun, too - all in grey! :-X
At least better then the Act-Labs.

Look at the picture below, there was a thread here some weeks ago. (Use the search-button)

Unfortunately we still don't know if it would work with two guns/two players. I don't want a single-player gun, especially not for HOTD2! :o

http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=54&products_id=1429&

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I believe this gun (PC Virtual Gun) would work with two players if using MAME: Analog+ and Win98, as it behaves like a mouse (like the ActLabs gun does). There is a development underway to make this work in WinXP as well, see the "Raw Input" thread in the software forum. I doubt the PC Bio Gun would work with two players as it is PS2 based.

rampy:
I have the pc virtual gun.. .it stinks...

I actually have both a act labs usb and the pc virtual gun.. I tried to get both to work ath the same time a while ago... but to no avail... (it almost kinda/sorta worked, but not really)

*shrug*

incidently anyone see the PC lightguns they mentioned in new gear section of paper wired magazine this month???

Rampy

GamingGreg:
Rampy,

If you don't mind me asking, what is it that you don't like about the PC Virtual Gun? Is it accuracy issues, or the fact it only supports 640X480? I like the look of it much better than the ActLabs one. I don't have either, and I'm trying to determine which to get (or even wait for something better, I might have to pick up a copy of Wired and see.)

g-rock26:
I went ahead and bought 2 sets of both guns. The PC bio gun is a pos. It has 3 settings, turbo, turbo and turbo.....it makes no sence. There is a solenoid in the gun that rattles when you shoot, but it acts like turbo no matter what setting it's on. The only difference is that it does not auto-reload on one of the settings and it does on the other two....if that makes any sense. The other thing is that it has to hook to both your keyboard and mouse port as well as the VGA port. They say that you can use 2 of these guns at the same time, but I don't see how. The other draw back is that it has 3 settings on the main box that everything plugs into. One setting will let you use the gun only, the next setting is for the gun and keyboard only and the last setting is the mouse and keyboard only....ANNOYING! Also, there is no way to calibrate and both guns were off by a mile in 640x480 mode...horrible gun!

The PC virtual gun is pretty cool. It comes with a silent scope sticker on the side. It actually cocks like a real gun (not that it does anything just a cool feature). It is light and plasticy feeling just like the Act labs gun. It comes with a foot pedal that I never used as well. (connects through a phone cord in the base of the handle). I put both of the guns on at the same time and tried to play Zero Point 2...it workedbut not that well. IT has two options, regular and autofire. This is deffinately the better gun of the two, but probably even with the act labs gun.

Hope this helps! ;-)

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