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yotsuya:

--- Quote from: Vigo on October 04, 2012, 12:15:02 pm ---
--- Quote from: yotsuya on October 01, 2012, 09:41:18 pm ---It was fun playing Crime Patrol and Mad Dog McCree in my loving room.

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You have a room devoted to loving? Someone's a player. Giggity giggity. :afro:

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:laugh2:

:cheers:
Le Chuck:
I have owned and used both the Aimtrak system and the ACT Labs CRT guns.  If you have a CRT in your cab and are not worried about cost you are a fool if you go with Aimtrak or any gun that isn't a classic CRT zapper.  The ACT Labs guns are far and beyond the most accurate and best feeling guns out there.  It would be a fairly simple mod to reshell them and even add recoil if that's your thing but I side with PBJ on recoil.  ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- gets annoying after a few minutes. The resolution issue was never a problem as I just forced the same resolution for all the shooting games and off I'd go.  If that cab hadn't been destroyed by a moving company I'd probably have never built another one.   

It does become a question of cost tho, I recently sold my ACT labs setup as I finally admitted that I wasn't going back to CRT unless it was on an original dedicated cab.  I got $280 for it (one gun and two control boxes.  Didn't even have both guns, recently found the 2nd one in a junk box).  Way more than I originally paid when they first came out so if you're going for the best you're going to pay a premium it looks like. 

Until there is "the next great solution" I'll be playing around with positional guns.  I won't do as well on the games where careful aim is required but I've always favored the pray-n-sprays anyway, plus I can use a projector or whatever screen I plug into since it's just an analogue controller and for my gaming pleasure it is far better to be using a positional gun than the current IR solutions which I find just aren't yet ready for prime time.     
Nephasth:

--- Quote from: Le Chuck on October 04, 2012, 01:44:59 pm ---If you have a CRT in your cab and are not worried about cost you are a fool if you go with Aimtrak or any gun that isn't a classic CRT zapper.
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...or you just can't find the proper gun for your machine's configuration. ACT Labs guns aren't readily available, and the ones that do come up from time to time (the ones I've seen pop up) are the TV guns and not the VGA guns.
BadMouth:
Anyone who has been around for a long time remember the peak price of used Act Labs guns the first time they were discontinued?
I thought I saw an old thread about it, but can't find it now.  I don't remember what the price was, but it was absurd.

I paid $35 for each of my s-vid ray guns. 
There were a pair of the arcade style VGA ones in buy/sell/trade not long ago for $100 for the pair.  :dunno

BadMouth:

--- Quote from: BadMouth on October 04, 2012, 03:14:32 pm ---Anyone who has been around for a long time remember the peak price of used Act Labs guns the first time they were discontinued?

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$208.55 for a single gun, Feb 2005  ;D
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