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Are you happy with your actlabs usb pc gun?
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Sasquatch!:
My answer is "No, not really."  I have one gun, and it's so intermittant with its results that I'm not going to buy a second gun, nor am I going to try to permanently graft it to my cab.  It's not horrible, but it's not great either.
Minwah:
I wasn't overly impressed with mine (not too great accuracy and occasional way-off-shots basically)...

Just as well really as my hack ended up in 2 non-working guns  ::)
Teknique:
As pertains to accuracy... are any of you shooting through a plexiglass monitor covering?  Im wondering if this would have any effect on results?

Tek
Chris:

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Mine are very accurate... I'm shooting through glass...

The guns should be pretty good with lightgun games, and less good with positional gun games

Some history on the "ugly" cases: At one time, Act-Labs was set to release a very realistic looking gun product.  The week it was to be released, the Columbine attacks happened, and people were claiming that these guys learned to shoot by playing Doom.  Act-Labs scrapped its plans.  I'm presuming that this has something to do with why their guns don't look remotely realistic now.

Personally, I like the guns.  The cabinet is mostly used by 8-10 year old girls, and the smaller, lighter guns suite their hands well.  Autofire would be nice, but the nature of PC gun technology pretty much prohibits it, as it would require live tracking. I had considered hooking up a relay to add autofire, but MAME starts to bog down pretty badly when I pull the trigger rapidly, so if I had a relay doing the work it would get even worse.

One solution to autofire, I suppose, would be to hack anotrher button on the gun and map it to Button 1.  Holding down that button would autofire in the last position the crosshairs were in; you would just have to continue shooting occasionally with the trigger to move the crosshairs.

--Chris

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--- Quote from: Teknique on May 10, 2004, 10:16:45 am ---As pertains to accuracy... are any of you shooting through a plexiglass monitor covering?  Im wondering if this would have any effect on results?

Tek

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I'm shooting the PC version through thin plexiglass over the monitor, and it works fine.  When I started the guns were shooting a little low and left, but after I adjusted the monitor settings a bit they are now very accurate.

BTW - You can use either Analog Mame XP or Noname MAME XP - either will work with dual PC lightguns.  Apparently Noname does have the "dual mouse" XP drivers needed.
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