1st Gen ActLab lightgun - swap to more recent ones?

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Marsupial:
Right now I mainly run 800x600 but never bothered checking that since it wasn't an issue. May have to rethink it...

--- Quote from: BadMouth on May 19, 2021, 06:27:19 am ---
If you are using a front-end that tries to do everything for you, that could also sabotage you.

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I use Mala front end and I think that's why I can't figure what option to change. These crosshairs are annoying

gibranx:
I also thought of such a solution, change the gun shell with a more beautiful one, you had a great idea and you did a great job!

Hi guys
I have these fantastic guns, n.2 with vga box and I will tell you my experience.
They work perfectly on tv crt at 15 khz through vga scart and crtemudriver (tested on the old win xp), but through a normal Chinese converter for a few euros. In practice, the vga signal, entering and exiting the converter allows me to get the signal out on the vga scart cable in a clean way. Without converter, the signal is noisy.

Tested and fully functional on Mame and with dxwnd at these resolutions on tv crt 15 khz:

288x240
296x240
304x240
368x240
384x288
448x240
512x240
512x288
512x448
512x512

They are very precise and allow you to shoot from different angles, unlike the usual lightguns with an ir sensor

I am currently testing them on a Naomi Universal clone with Polo 2 svga 31 khz. Nothing is needed here, they are also fine at 640x480.

Hope this information can be useful to someone!

Marsupial:

--- Quote from: gibranx on May 20, 2021, 03:44:20 am ---I also thought of such a solution, change the gun shell with a more beautiful one, you had a great idea and you did a great job!

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Thanks!

They still have red guns in liquidation as they are phasing out the light guns. Now may be your last chance to get some if you plan to upgrade.

I think the reason for bad calibration on multisync is the screen geometry. Arcade monitors don't toy with the geometry that much. Once I tweaked mine it is much better.

Thanks for sharing your experience.

... Now I kinda want a 31khz monitor..

Marsupial:
Today I added the "final" connector I want for the gun on the arcade. There's enough pins for a second gun on this connector, or even a third one!
maybe I need to find a second actlab gun now!

It's a massive barrel connector salvaged from a kiosk computer years ago.

I know real arcades don't have disconnects on the front for the gun, but I still want to be able to remove the gun...
And this massive connector looks less foreign than a db9 like I used for testing.

Marsupial:
For the records.

I changed MAME to a less ancient version, and now have the crosshair option directly in the TAB menu, being able to change it.

I could also change the crosshair for a custom one, which I may be interested to use that and put a more discreet crosshair.

So, yeah, just in case someone in the future reads this thread wondering how to remove crosshair - it may be a matter of using the correct version of MAME.

Without the crosshair, I am comparing usage of the ActLab fun and Gun4IR on the same monitor and it is super fun to play.

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