Author Topic: Sinden Lightgun Kickstarter date revealed! (Read 117084 times)

Howard_Casto · « **Reply #240 on:** May 24, 2020, 10:08:21 pm »

Doh POW.... I mean operation wolf. Excuse my brain fatigue.

pbawesome · « **Reply #241 on:** June 12, 2020, 03:47:01 pm »

Although I'm not a fan of the arcade1up line (cheap/cut corners etc.), the have licensed the use of the Sinden Lightgun technology for Big Buck Hunter!

https://youtu.be/Gq5vGenlrjY?t=1595

This could be good or bad because like I said above, I know they cheaped out on arcade things before. I'm hoping arcade1up liked what they saw and we can get real close to arcade experiences.

Rockstead · « **Reply #242 on:** June 14, 2020, 06:39:12 pm »

Titchgamer,

What are Andy’s plans in terms of providing pre-retail versions of the guns to professional reviewers? Shouldn’t that be happening with the imminent release?

Super happy to see the 1UP deal, I’m not a fan of the 1up’s but I like to think of it as a gateway to real arcades, I’m hoping it makes Andy’s business successful so that we can see years of future support.

Titchgamer · « **Reply #243 on:** June 14, 2020, 07:09:14 pm »

Quote from: Rockstead on June 14, 2020, 06:39:12 pm

Titchgamer,

What are Andy’s plans in terms of providing pre-retail versions of the guns to professional reviewers? Shouldn’t that be happening with the imminent release?

Super happy to see the 1UP deal, I’m not a fan of the 1up’s but I like to think of it as a gateway to real arcades, I’m hoping it makes Andy’s business successful so that we can see years of future support.

No idea mate sorry!

But I assume he will, Obviously Retro man cave got to play with a pre-production model the same as me.
I don't know if any other reviewers had a go with it or not.
I just got lucky enough to have a play because Andy found out I was a big lightgun fan and had some experience with the real things so he felt I would be good to get feedback from.

Shouldn't be long now though hopefully

pbj · « **Reply #244 on:** June 14, 2020, 08:36:15 pm »

Still not for sale?

Mike A · « **Reply #245 on:** June 14, 2020, 08:55:07 pm »

He had to make sure he took care of the A1up deal...that he didn't mention.

I am sure he will get right on shipping to the people that funded the whole thing right away.

Howard_Casto · « **Reply #246 on:** June 15, 2020, 02:33:53 am »

Yeah I hear that new Atari console is on the way as well.... after they pay out the lawsuit to the guy that actually built the damn thing they didn't pay for 6 months and that they couldn't be bothered to show up for in court. You know, like real businesses act.

Titchgamer · « **Reply #247 on:** June 15, 2020, 02:42:48 am »

Well he posted a update last night.

In a nut shell production is still going to plan with non recoil units to be finished by the end of the month.

Units getting shipped in July

In other news the production recoil unit is finished (physically anyway) so he is just finalising the software side of that.
He fid post a little demo video of it working but as we all know you cant really get anything across on a video of a recoil unit lol.

pbawesome · « **Reply #248 on:** June 15, 2020, 03:05:06 pm »

Can't wait!!!! 1.5month until we see it in hands possibly!

Rockstead · « **Reply #249 on:** June 15, 2020, 06:49:29 pm »

Quote from: Titchgamer on June 15, 2020, 02:42:48 am

Well he posted a update last night.

In a nut shell production is still going to plan with non recoil units to be finished by the end of the month.

Units getting shipped in July

In other news the production recoil unit is finished (physically anyway) so he is just finalising the software side of that.
He fid post a little demo video of it working but as we all know you cant really get anything across on a video of a recoil unit lol.

Quote from: Titchgamer on June 15, 2020, 02:42:48 am

Well he posted a update last night.

In a nut shell production is still going to plan with non recoil units to be finished by the end of the month.

Units getting shipped in July

In other news the production recoil unit is finished (physically anyway) so he is just finalising the software side of that.
He fid post a little demo video of it working but as we all know you cant really get anything across on a video of a recoil unit lol.

Can you post the contents of those updates please

Titchgamer · « **Reply #250 on:** June 16, 2020, 03:49:02 am »

Quote from: Rockstead on June 15, 2020, 06:49:29 pm

Quote from: Titchgamer on June 15, 2020, 02:42:48 am
Well he posted a update last night.

In a nut shell production is still going to plan with non recoil units to be finished by the end of the month.

Units getting shipped in July

In other news the production recoil unit is finished (physically anyway) so he is just finalising the software side of that.
He fid post a little demo video of it working but as we all know you cant really get anything across on a video of a recoil unit lol.
Quote from: Titchgamer on June 15, 2020, 02:42:48 am
Well he posted a update last night.

In a nut shell production is still going to plan with non recoil units to be finished by the end of the month.

Units getting shipped in July

In other news the production recoil unit is finished (physically anyway) so he is just finalising the software side of that.
He fid post a little demo video of it working but as we all know you cant really get anything across on a video of a recoil unit lol.

Can you post the contents of those updates please

That was it ^
Well except the video lol

pbawesome · « **Reply #251 on:** June 23, 2020, 12:59:47 pm »

Quote from: Mike A on June 14, 2020, 08:55:07 pm

He had to make sure he took care of the A1up deal...that he didn't mention.

I am sure he will get right on shipping to the people that funded the whole thing right away.

He's licensing the technology, I imagine A1UP has other plants to make the mold and gun parts. The software/border is what they were probably talking with Andy about

Titchgamer · « **Reply #252 on:** June 24, 2020, 03:08:53 am »

Reward surveys have gone out for backers.

Exciting times

Rockstead · « **Reply #253 on:** June 24, 2020, 07:03:33 am »

Quote from: Titchgamer on June 24, 2020, 03:08:53 am

Reward surveys have gone out for backers.

Exciting times

I purchased through the indiegogo and no survey

Titchgamer · « **Reply #254 on:** June 24, 2020, 07:05:22 am »

Quote from: Rockstead on June 24, 2020, 07:03:33 am

Quote from: Titchgamer on June 24, 2020, 03:08:53 am
Reward surveys have gone out for backers.

Exciting times
I purchased through the indiegogo and no survey

Oh I guess the round 2’s will go out in a few months after the round 1’s have shipped?

Trnzaddict · « **Reply #255 on:** June 30, 2020, 09:20:26 am »

So I have a question - the border drawn onscreen. Will that be hardware that draws it or is it software driven? If it is software that could be an issue as some emulators are ridiculously finicky.

Titchgamer · « **Reply #256 on:** June 30, 2020, 09:22:06 am »

Quote from: Trnzaddict on June 30, 2020, 09:20:26 am

So I have a question - the border drawn onscreen. Will that be hardware that draws it or is it software driven? If it is software that could be an issue as some emulators are ridiculously finicky.

Its software generated, basically play the game in windowed mode.

Was not a issue on any emu I tried, Which ones were you concerned about specifically?

Trnzaddict · « **Reply #257 on:** June 30, 2020, 11:01:12 am »

Quote from: Titchgamer on June 30, 2020, 09:22:06 am

Quote from: Trnzaddict on June 30, 2020, 09:20:26 am
So I have a question - the border drawn onscreen. Will that be hardware that draws it or is it software driven? If it is software that could be an issue as some emulators are ridiculously finicky.

Its software generated, basically play the game in windowed mode.

Was not a issue on any emu I tried, Which ones were you concerned about specifically?

Hey - Well 2 things. The first thing is when an emulator is in windowed mode, because all our lightguns are seen as mice some emulators minimize if they see a mouse click on the outer edges. So firing in the upper right corner of a game for example can minimize it. This doesn't happen with fullscreen. Granted if the white software border stops the cursor from travelling there in the first place, then problem solved.

The second thing is users of rocketlauncher that use bezels for 4:3 games. Rocketlauncher draws the bezel around the screen by putting the emulator in window mode and getting rid of the window components to simulate a borderless fullscreen while it draws the bezel around it. I am concerned that being that that the Sinden software will be drawing a software border around the emulator WHILE Rocketlauncher is trying to do it's thing they will conflict each other.

Titchgamer · « **Reply #258 on:** June 30, 2020, 11:08:45 am »

Quote from: Trnzaddict on June 30, 2020, 11:01:12 am

Quote from: Titchgamer on June 30, 2020, 09:22:06 am
Quote from: Trnzaddict on June 30, 2020, 09:20:26 am
So I have a question - the border drawn onscreen. Will that be hardware that draws it or is it software driven? If it is software that could be an issue as some emulators are ridiculously finicky.

Its software generated, basically play the game in windowed mode.

Was not a issue on any emu I tried, Which ones were you concerned about specifically?

Hey - Well 2 things. The first thing is when an emulator is in windowed mode, because all our lightguns are seen as mice some emulators minimize if they see a mouse click on the outer edges. So firing in the upper right corner of a game for example can minimize it. This doesn't happen with fullscreen. Granted if the white software border stops the cursor from travelling there in the first place, then problem solved.

The second thing is users of rocketlauncher that use bezels for 4:3 games. Rocketlauncher draws the bezel around the screen by putting the emulator in window mode and getting rid of the window components to simulate a borderless fullscreen while it draws the bezel around it. I am concerned that being that that the Sinden software will be drawing a software border around the emulator WHILE Rocketlauncher is trying to do it's thing they will conflict each other.

Well regarding point 1, That was not a issue for me at any point, Although the emu's are in effect windowed they never lost focus or had the bar at the top to accidentally minimise or close.
So dont worry about that one

Regarding point 2, Afraid I never got to use it with RL or bothered playing with bezels.
But I would assume it would border the entire screen bezel included but obv I can not confirm this.

Howard_Casto · « **Reply #259 on:** June 30, 2020, 03:19:41 pm »

Since it's not using ir or anything it seems like some reflective pinstriping around the monitor would achieve the same thing. Maybe put an ir led on the tip of the gun to "light" it up.

Zeosstud · « **Reply #260 on:** July 01, 2020, 12:44:15 am »

I will buy one if not two when becomes an option, hopefully before Xmas..

Looking forward to the reviews and a lot of happy BYOAC members when things ship

nipsmg · « **Reply #261 on:** July 17, 2020, 12:30:04 pm »

Does anyone know -- I know they're not intended for this purpose, but will they work on a CRT?

Howard_Casto · « **Reply #262 on:** July 17, 2020, 12:37:27 pm »

I'm sure it would, but I don't know why you'd want to when you could use a traditional light gun that is probably going to work better.

Titchgamer · « **Reply #263 on:** July 17, 2020, 01:48:38 pm »

Quote from: nipsmg on July 17, 2020, 12:30:04 pm

Does anyone know -- I know they're not intended for this purpose, but will they work on a CRT?

Yup! Tested on my CRT TV.

pbawesome · « **Reply #264 on:** July 20, 2020, 02:26:07 pm »

Quote from: Titchgamer on July 17, 2020, 01:48:38 pm

Quote from: nipsmg on July 17, 2020, 12:30:04 pm
Does anyone know -- I know they're not intended for this purpose, but will they work on a CRT?

Yup! Tested on my CRT TV.

This is the best video I've seen in regards to trigger pull/bullet appearing on screen! Looks to be no lag since you can see/hear the trigger/bullet. Weird I've never seen it before

Titchgamer · « **Reply #265 on:** July 20, 2020, 02:45:37 pm »

Quote from: pbawesome on July 20, 2020, 02:26:07 pm

Quote from: Titchgamer on July 17, 2020, 01:48:38 pm
Quote from: nipsmg on July 17, 2020, 12:30:04 pm
Does anyone know -- I know they're not intended for this purpose, but will they work on a CRT?

Yup! Tested on my CRT TV.

This is the best video I've seen in regards to trigger pull/bullet appearing on screen! Looks to be no lag since you can see/hear the trigger/bullet. Weird I've never seen it before

Glad it helped

Confirmed no noticeable lag on CRT or LCD when I tested it.

flybynight · « **Reply #266 on:** July 23, 2020, 12:46:54 pm »

Quote from: Howard_Casto on July 17, 2020, 12:37:27 pm

I'm sure it would, but I don't know why you'd want to when you could use a traditional light gun that is probably going to work better.

Traditional CRT light guns are not available for PC's any more.

The old Actlabs guns cost $$$ and the drivers for guncon 1 and 2 do not work on Windows 10

Howard_Casto · « **Reply #267 on:** July 23, 2020, 01:28:28 pm »

There's this thing called eBay....

Alejo I · « **Reply #268 on:** July 30, 2020, 03:36:00 pm »

That wacky kid Linus got to play with it.

Howard_Casto · « **Reply #269 on:** July 30, 2020, 04:25:57 pm »

Looks good I guess but I'd rather see an unboxing video of someone getting their retail copy. As the months roll on the tech becomes more and more outdated.... it needs released so people can enjoy it while it's still relevant.

BadMouth · « **Reply #270 on:** July 31, 2020, 09:57:32 pm »

Wow. Actual information! If it works as well as it seems, there will probably be more demand than supply.

Howard_Casto · « **Reply #271 on:** August 01, 2020, 01:09:41 am »

Well that was a video featuring duck hunt though... it's not exactly known for it's fast motion tacking or precision aiming. No offense to anyone but I will believe all the claims when we get them in our hands.

Titchgamer · « **Reply #272 on:** August 01, 2020, 03:31:40 am »

Quote from: BadMouth on July 31, 2020, 09:57:32 pm

Wow. Actual information! If it works as well as it seems, there will probably be more demand than supply.

Well I dont think they said anything I had not allready :p
But they are getting to play with the newer model there than I did lol

Demand is already outstripping supply, Its really taken off the last 6 months as word has got around on facebook etc.
And Andy has been looking how it can be intergrated to Mister which is pretty cool.

I suspect that will be hard though due to all the differences between cores.

Mike A · « **Reply #273 on:** August 01, 2020, 09:03:43 am »

Is Arroyo in charge of production on these things?

BadMouth · « **Reply #274 on:** August 01, 2020, 03:12:32 pm »

Quote from: Mike A on August 01, 2020, 09:03:43 am

Is Arroyo in charge of production on these things?

Arroyo · « **Reply #275 on:** August 01, 2020, 04:27:17 pm »

If I were in charge I’d insist that the handles be made of ivory, hand carved by restoration experts from the Smithsonian. Oh and the wiring would need to be 24k gold. Price would be:

pbj · « **Reply #276 on:** August 01, 2020, 10:19:12 pm »

Quote from: pbj on June 14, 2020, 08:36:15 pm

Still not for sale?

Howard_Casto · « **Reply #277 on:** August 01, 2020, 11:33:48 pm »

Quote from: pbj on August 01, 2020, 10:19:12 pm

Quote from: pbj on June 14, 2020, 08:36:15 pm
Still not for sale?

yotsuya · « **Reply #278 on:** August 02, 2020, 01:02:24 am »

Quote from: Howard_Casto on August 01, 2020, 11:33:48 pm

Quote from: pbj on August 01, 2020, 10:19:12 pm
Quote from: pbj on June 14, 2020, 08:36:15 pm
Still not for sale?

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Vocalitus · « **Reply #279 on:** August 06, 2020, 03:34:05 am »

Does anyone know where I can get two holsters for this gun?


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