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Sinden Lightgun Kickstarter date revealed!
Rockstead:
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--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on September 06, 2020, 11:05:08 pm ---Well I expect the polymega to be as lasting and influential as the ouya, so that deal really means nothing imho. The arcade1up deal might actually be more fruitful. To answer the asked question, the rush is that if other companies see this gun making money, they'll come out with their own versions. Except for rare timeless exceptions, every product, especially a tech product, has an expiration date. Our goal as an end user should be to see this gun in production for as long as possible.... so it'll be supported and get regular driver updates, ect.
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Andy wants to keep it updated, That was a day 1 goal for him.
He wants to make it compatible with real hardware where possible also using adapters etc.
I seem to recall hes had some success getting it running with PS1.
Thats obviously a secondary thing to the main release.
I totally agree about polymega, But I was just using it as an example.
I would hope he got some money from them up front for licensing or somthing as I cant see it doing any good if it ever actually gets released.
The A1up deal may be more lucrative.
I think the biggest risk to the project is the Chinese to be honest, We all know what they are like for cloning stuff of this nature and other than the PCB I believe its off the shelf parts.
Hopfully he has implemented some sort of copy protection/authentification type thing in the software to slow them down a bit.
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The AimTrak’s have been selling for years, I wasn’t aware of any clones being sold, were there?
I think Sinden’s main base of users are unhappy AimTrak users that are looking forward to a working gun.
Even now you would be shocked to see how much AimTrak’s are selling on eBay due to low availability, which tells me that there is so much demand out there.
Titchgamer:
Hmm not sure about cloned aim traks.
I believe the act labs guns were the same but never owned one so not sure.
Either way I am not really surprised they are still selling well, But I didnt know there was a shortage of them.
As for the Sinden customer base, Yes I am sure there are many AT owners in the list, But I think the demand from the general public is pretty high on this one.
lllll44:
Come on people (who got the gun today )...show us the goods in youtube:)
Titchgamer:
Well I am home and just spent the last 3 hours playing light gun games in Mame :D
I am still tinkering with settings etc trying to thin down the border.
Just to start with I started with the default border just to get up and running which is about 1cm on my screen, But I have got it down much thinner now.
I found that it was not picking up the border properly to start with when I thinned out the border, But with some tinkering I figured out it was because my TV is LED and it had a backlight setting set to eco (70%) When I whacked that up it picked up the thinner border no problem.
There are settings in the app to adjust brightness etc so I will tinker with them at another point to see if I can get the same effect with them.
Calibration is a 1 time thing set and forget (video of moving positions height and side to side to follow in next post).
But I have just had a full playthrough of the first "easy" stage of Point Blank without crosshairs and a quick blast on Time Crisis again of course with out cross hairs with no issues getting just past the first boss.
I am taking a break now for some food and to let my ribs rest (in a spot of pain atm which really aint helping!)
SammyWI:
Woohoo! Great to hear. Have a couple of those beverages I see by the TV and I'm sure the ribs will feel better.
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