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Jamesbeat:


--- Quote from: drventure on September 16, 2014, 12:55:45 pm ---True, but aimtraks are wireless. That's the main thing the wiimote approach has going for it.

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I'm assuming that's a typo and that you meant to say that Aimtraks are not wireless?

I'm a little torn. I know that wireless (if it can be made to work reliably) should be better in theory than wired, but real arcade guns have stout armored cables, so wired guns would feel more authentic.

I'm kind of on the fence about which I would prefer on my cab.

drventure:

Yeah. Sorry. I meant wired

I know what you mean about the armored cables though

If I was building a dedicated gun cab, I'd seriously consider gettin some armored cabling like that. Bonus is you can't loose the guns!

Like every thing else in this hobby, a lot of it comes down to personal taste

drventure:


--- Quote from: arcadepcnut on September 17, 2014, 04:46:51 pm ---
--- Quote from: drventure on September 16, 2014, 12:56:56 pm ---Also, to get a nice shell, you'll need to spring for both the wiimote and the shell. Considering that, that 39$ for the crossfire is still a bit more, but not much.

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I have two of the older crossfires that work with the motion plus. you cant beat them. they look "arcadey" and they don't look like a wiimote. the new ones that are for sale now are inferior and don't work with the motion plus and are buggy. or is that vice versa. whichever new or old that works with motionplus is the version you want

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Could you post some details of your setup (Bluetooth dongle, software, scripts etc). Definitely interested!


nitrogen_widget:

Probably a silly question, but what about a modded Wii with SDLMame?
Can you use the wiimotes as guns natively in that situation?

I can get a wii with a dead optical drive cheap for homebrew and was wondering if anyone had gone this route.

drventure:

I'm guessing a lot of the gun games are newer type games that require a decent amount of horse power to emulate. The Wii isn't a particularly fast processor.

But hell, doesn't hurt to try!

Replacing the DVD drive in a wii is pretty easy (just keep up with all those dang screws!)

I'll have to check out SDLMame. It'd certainly be good for older roms, in any case.

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