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Le Chuck:
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--- 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
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,32758.msg281259.html#msg281259
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I couldn't believe how high my auction went. I was figuring in the $100 range.
--- Quote from: Nephasth on October 04, 2012, 03:04:41 pm ---
--- 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.
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Well, yeah, supply availability not withstanding. Still, FOOOLISHHH!
Nephasth:
--- Quote from: BadMouth on October 04, 2012, 03:14:32 pm ---There were a pair of the arcade style VGA ones in buy/sell/trade not long ago for $100 for the pair. :dunno
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Link? All I could find was this from back in January - http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,117614.msg1246037.html#msg1246037
I'd pick up a pair if I could find the ones I need...
pinballjim:
Top Gun 3 is $50 and done.
You can spend more but it won't play any better.
Nephasth:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on October 04, 2012, 03:29:13 pm ---Top Gun 3 is $50 and done.
You can spend more but it won't play any better.
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“Quality is like buying oats.
If you want nice, clean, fresh oats,
you must pay a fair price.
However, if you can be satisfied with oats
that have already been through the horse ...
that comes a little cheaper."
RandyT:
The unfortunate answer is that little has changed on the gun scene. For LCD monitors, there are only a couple of options, neither of which work as well as a something like a Guncon2 on a CRT. For older arcade games which used a positional device (basically a gun mounted on a modified analog joystick) where crosshairs were visible in the game, the IR solutions work pretty well, but need a bit more distance from the screen than those original controls were typically positioned. Despite their drawbacks, it's still better than playing with a mouse.
My recommendation for true gun game aficionados is still to get the largest RGB CRT you can get your hands on, a PS2, a Guncon, a Guncon2 and every used PS and PS2 gun game you can find. There's a decent library between the two systems, and they are cheap now. You won't be able to play everything you might want, and it won't help you with MAME, but the titles you can play on this type of setup should more than give you your fix of the real arcade gun game experience. I have a 36" RGB setup and would trade it for nothing. And yes, I have all the IR solutions as well, but they don't see much use as I can't bring myself to use crosshairs on shooting games. Feels too much like playing with a "free-air" mouse, rather than the true shooting experience.
I've also tried the wonky commercial Wii and Kinect approaches. I don't know how these things even made it to market, they are, IMHO, that poor.