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| Jollywest:
EDIT Here's a video of the completed project; ORIGINAL POSTS BELOW Hi all, Just a little heads up on an upcoming project; I have a non-working but complete Global VR America's Army machine arriving some time this week. The idea is to utilise the USB2Gun board inside and the Happ guns to make it into a Multi Lightgun Game Arcade using a PC and Emulators. (Hopefully the board is working or this may be a very short project :P) I'm hoping that this board will create or more accurate arcade lightgun experience over the AimTrak or Actlabs guns. I'll most probably do a blog on the project and will post the link here once I get started. For now though I have a lot of reading up to do on which Emulators to use to play which games and how to incorporate the recoil (if it's possible), As well as the bumf on the USB2Gun board. |
| maffewl:
Found this while searching your response in my shooter cab post. Subscribed. |
| Jollywest:
So the cab turned up... eventually... and the overall condition was pretty good. There was the odd expected scrape to the side art and scuffs to the guns but nothing major :). The machine arrived complete as well, apart from the top marquee box section. I should be able to fabricate this though, at some point down the line. On firing up the cab for the first time, there were obvious problems. The monitor had no orange neck glow, very muffled sound and some of the cab cathode lights were out. On further investigation the monitor was found to be shot; :'( http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,139365 However, the lights were just a matter of re-connecting some loose wiring and the sound was sorted by replacing the two 3.5mm audio jack cables from PC to USB2Gun interface. The HAPP Guns won't register shots on an LCD monitor using the version of USB2Gun in the machine, but I slapped in a 20" LCD monitor to test the video signals all the same. The results were good and I could navigate into the test menu and test the inputs. All the inputs worked great including the gun triggers and recoil. Although I can't be 100% sure that the USB2Gun is fully functional as to register shots on a CRT monitor, everything tested on it so far is good. The next job was to check out the PC specs to see if I could utilise the PC for my needs. Unfortunately the specs of the CPU (Intel E2160 1.8ghz Dual-Core) and GPU (Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT 256mb) were too low but I have a Intel Xeon E5240 2.5ghz Quad-Core (with LGA775 to LGA771 socket adapter) and Ati Radeon HD 4670 spare that I can use in there instead. The 1Gb of DDR2 Ram in there may be adequate enough. The plan is to use a Dual-boot setup to keep the Americas Army dedicated side of things the same, which uses Linux and have a Windows XP OS to run all the Emulated stuff. Acquiring a full replacement monitor is also the plan but that may take a while to sort, so I'm looking at temporary measures to be able to test the USB2Gun fully and that's were I may need some input from you guys on here please. Contined in the Monitor section ===> http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,139939.0.html |
| Jollywest:
Update time ... After doing a bit more reading up, I realised that there was little chance of the TV setup damaging the USB2Gun board, so I tried it out. The best I could muster was a faint, rolling, doubled image by swapping around the jumper. This was nowhere near good enough for testing out the guns. However, I acquired a WG D9410 chassis and screen from two different sources this week and have it all fully working in the cab as of this morning ;D The guns and recoil work great and are perfectly accurate, so I now know the USB2Gun is 100% working as well ;D ;D I've changed my mind on the Dual-boot setup because I think I will have issues getting the ATI GPU set up within the Americas Army Linux OS. I'm going to setup another PC with XP instead to run the emulator stuff and just swap the cables over to switch between PC's. I will have to purchase a few components though to build the 2nd PC.....that's the next job ;) |
| mcseforsale:
Pics or it didn't happen. :angry: :lol Anywho....I'm thinking about a lightgun game...BIGTIME. Subscribed! AJ |
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