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| BadMouth:
In reference to Randy T's comments about accuracy, the old CRT Act Labs light guns claimed accuracy to within a few pixels. (granted, pixel density was lower back then) Nothing in my experience with them led me to doubt that. I've heard the hit box on old arcade games was quite forgiving though, so it probably doesn't need to be that tight. Here's some old video of me playing 3 feet away from a 32" CRT TV. Notice that I move the gun all over the place. Unfortunately I rid my rented house of CRTs (and CRT guns), not wanting to deal with them the next time I moved. Then I ended up buying the house and not having to move anything anyway. :angry: |
| MrLightgun:
--- Quote from: pbj on June 26, 2018, 01:37:27 pm ---I would be careful about posting anything too specific about the technology behind this. This hobby has had upstarts rubbed out by existing vendors with more resources and name recognition. --- End quote --- Thank you for the warning :( this is obviously a concern, hence my original vagueness but I felt I wasn't going to get anywhere if people couldn't believe in the technology. Approaching 3rd parties instead felt just as risky. They would no doubt want all the code and algorithms and then I would be even more exposed. At least this way I have published it to the world as my invention and no matter what happens that is something I am very proud of and no one can take that away :-) |
| MrLightgun:
--- Quote from: BadMouth on June 26, 2018, 02:00:50 pm ---In reference to Randy T's comments about accuracy, the old CRT Act Labs light guns claimed accuracy to within a few pixels. (granted, pixel density was lower back then) Nothing in my experience with them led me to doubt that. I've heard the hit box on old arcade games was quite forgiving though, so it probably doesn't need to be that tight. Here's some old video of me playing 3 feet away from a 32" CRT TV. Notice that I move the gun all over the place. Unfortunately I rid my rented house of CRTs (and CRT guns), not wanting to deal with them the next time I moved. Then I ended up buying the house and not having to move anything anyway. :angry: --- End quote --- This is super cool and exactly what I want people to be able to do but in their living room on their 50inch+ LCD television! Interestingly your CRT output looks pretty rectangular to the camera which assuming there is nothing special about it should mean the Sinden Lightgun would work on CRTs like this well. |
| pbj:
--- Quote from: Malenko on June 26, 2018, 01:45:14 pm --- --- Quote from: pbj on June 26, 2018, 01:37:27 pm ---I would be careful about posting anything too specific about the technology behind this. This hobby has had upstarts rubbed out by existing vendors with more resources and name recognition. --- End quote --- I hope you aren't alluding to the Howler board. --- End quote --- I can name many examples. It was freaking out of control in the pinball world. |
| Malenko:
Howler was what sprung to mind, man was the product a total piece of junk. I'm gutting an America's army cab, so I'll have a "coveted" USB2gun for sale soon. |
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