Gunblade (positional gun) cabinet for emulation

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Howard_Casto:
For model 2 games use troubleshooter 2 …. I made it accept joystick inputs and it'll send recoil on to mamehooker.

Zebra:

--- Quote from: vholfx on November 27, 2019, 11:15:22 pm ---Space is not a problem for now, I have room for a few more cabs.

My main concern right now is that I don't know how well the model 2 emulator will work (gun accuracy and such) given the little info I found.

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I've seen it work pretty well if set up right. I'm sure someone here will help or just send you a file with the M2 emulator already set up to work with analog guns.

Personally, I wouldn't worry about model 2 gun games. There aren't that many decent fixed gun games on that platform. Obviously that's a matter of opinion. The one I'm trying to figure out for myself is later PC based arcades like Alien Extermination which don't have a compatibility layer like Teknoparrot to assign your own controls. The original arcade used analog guns but only a mouse patch currently exists (at least that I can find). Either way, you are going to want to figure out a joystick to mouse solution.

You can also use analog guns for Sega Type 2 gun games (which is every one since HOD2). Those guns output an analog X Y signal just like positional guns. Games like HOD4 in Teknoparrot work well with them). You can even use positional guns in place of their IR guns on original Sega arcade PCBs.

vholfx:
Zebra, that's fantastic info thank you! I was wondering exactly that regarding using the guns for other non-positional games. I thought it might work, but it's great to have confirmation.

Would you take a look at my other thread?

Zebra:
Once you get a few real arcade guns working, it can become it's own addiction. I ended up wanting to play every arcade game with exactly the right type of gun. That's why I have more than 30 gun controllers.

A gun game fan is going to want a set of positional guns, a set of recoil light gun pistols, a set of IR recoil guns and at least one shot gun style light gun as a minimum. Then, you start wondering if you can really live with playing Silent scope with an Operation Thunderbolt gun, or if a Time Crisis pistol really works for Crisis Zone and it's back to Ebay...

Incidentally, you're also going to want to hack a PS2 pad because Apac's are not compatible with anything except Windows PCs. I wanted to use my positional guns on my PS3 and the PS2 rail shooters with no light gun support. It is apparently impossible with an Apac. They don't even work via adapters.

vholfx:
Oh I absolutely know what you mean. 3 months ago I was collecting SNES games, then I got my first arcade cab ever (New Astro City) and look at me, I'm now own several and finding deals out there to get more, it's an addiction.

I'm also looking at a Steel Gunner cabinet, this one is more expensive since it's fully working and in a comercial establishment, but I was wondering if you have played around with its guns (It has Namco guns, not Taito guns converted from Operation Thunderbolt, don't know how different those are but I guess it's worth mentioning).

It reminds me of T2 cabinet, I wonder how well T2 game will fill in it.

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