PS1 & PS2 light gun interfaces

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armad1ll0:
I have serious doubts to this.

The Guncon controllers in particular would not work because of the way that they work. There is a video loop in there and it checks itself. Computers put out a totally different video signal (VGA) than NTSC video. Even if you figured out where to plug everything in, it would not work.

The Konami standard Justifier PSX light gun may work but I think that a custom driver would have to be written for that gun to work on a PSX to USB adaptor.

RacerX:
I'm getting really old. I saw PS1 and PS2 and immediately thought of machines by IBM instead of Sony. The sad thing is that I can remember a lot further back than that... :(

Lilwolf:
Yes it HAS been tried. Everything like it has been tried.

And nothing works.

PS2 USB and XBox USB are NOT the same a PC USB. I hope someone writes a driver to allow them to work... but they are different.

Then after that... expect to have to write your own hardware level driver...

After that I'm assuming that your will have saved enought money from not buying an actlabs lightgun that it was COMPLETELY worth your time.

I would expect it would be easier to start from scratch myself. But I would go in a different route if I was going to make a light gun. I have ideas on how to do it... and want to spend the time... but my 3 year old girl already makes gun noices with her finger and my wife wont let me get more guns in the house...

kilroy:
I know USB is an interface to the system. But there are drivers that go along with USB devices. A lot of devices use standard drivers that are already included with Windows especially if you are running XP. (XP contains more drivers simply because it is an updated version of windows and they added all the new standard goodies just to make it easier to use) Light guns work on the same priciple that light pens do which is why I would suspect that a PS2 light gun might be detected and a standard light pen and work witht that driver. The driver may not be included with Windows 98 but I'm sure they are available for download somewhere and I'm also certain that they are included in Windows XP.

PS2 certainly does use the same standard drivers. Sony initially stated that when they released the PS2 but have since down played that fact. After all, why would you buy a PS2 keyboard for $30 when you could get a standard USB keyboard for $10-15? ANd yes it does work. I'm use a standard USB keyboard with my PS2. A co worker actually uses a PS2 (the din interface not Playstation 2) keyboard with a USB adapter into his Playstation 2 and has no problems.

Lilwolf, my issue with the ActLabs guns aren't strictly about the cost, although that is a part of it. Another issue I have with them is that they don't look anything like any of the arcade light guns I have ever seen. I want something that will look and feel like it should be in an arcade. I also need something that will work with a TV and NOT a VGA.

I also realize that the difference between NTSC and VGA monitors and I know a PS2 gun won't work with a VGA monitor. That's why I stated that I'm using a TV and NOT a VGA monitor. I stress the NOT in order to clarify and not to just be a jerk. (As some may think) People seem to constantly overlook the fact that I'm using a standard TV and tell me that a PS2 gun won't work with a VGA monitor.

Spaced Invader I did not mean to be nasty to Snaaake, I was merely pointing out what I saw as a bit of inconsistancy in with his statement. If Snaaake was offended I would appreciate it if he told me so. Otherwise, I don't expect any offense was taken. You are actually attacking me realatively aggresively considering the remarks were not directed towards you. You seem to be one of the many idividuals that I've run into that are very wuick to say it can't be done now shut up and buy that overpriced ugly peice of plastic overthere. I appreciate any useful information that anyone is willing to share that would help me acheive the end results I want (a cost effective light gun that will interface to my pc, work with mame, work with the TV I'm using as a monitor, and look and feel like it would belong in an arcade). If you have nothing to contribute then please don't put me down for trying. If I do prove you wrong you will not hear from me though. I have no need to get all cocky and say "See I told you so". You might want to check into that transplant analogy though. I think it may be a bit flawed as I seem to remember hearing about at least some success with baboon hearts at one time. I think the project was terminated for ethical reasons. I'm not sure how far the project went though (Sorry, I have pretty varied interests and pick up at least a little bit of knowledge of just about everything. Some things stick and other don't. I have a bad habit of sharing the strange and varied facts when they pop up. This one definitely falls into the strange category).

RacerX, I actually have an old IBM PS2 computer sitting in my spare room. It does run but I don't have a CD drive for it not do I have Windows as a floppy installation. So right now I'm limited to running DOS on it (which I don't overly mind). I'm hoping to "restore" it one of these days and have a nice little peice of PC history to show off how much of a geek I really am once you get to know me. lol I had a PS1 but it didn't work. It had a problem on the motherboard somewhere and after spending a month of intesive work and research I junked it. That was a sad day. Almost as sad as the day when I found out my mom threw out my old 8088 based Leading Edge with dual 5 1/4" floppies. (Hard drives were just coming out then but my dad refused to get one because he said that they would never catch on)

If anyone has any info that would be of help I would greatly appreciate it.

Dave_K.:
Its is technically possible although nobody has written a driver for windows. Some college student did write a linux driver for the usb guncon2 (of course it requires an NTSC output graphics card). I lost the link to the site which had the driver, but I believe I still have the tar file at work (if I ever got the urge to learn about low level C device driver code). There is zero support and zero documentation...so unless you are a serious linux programming guru, don't even bother going further down that road.

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