Happs Light Gun In a Mame Cabinet

[Chuck Leisure]

With so meny shooting game in mame today i would like to put a happs light gun (area 51 type) in my cabinet.  But i can't find any information on how to do it. can anyone help.

[Lilwolf]

Because it can't happen..

why?

well
1) Light guns are physically made to a type of monitor.  So the circuitry will only work on an arcade CRT or a TV or a VGA monitor.  You have to double to optics to have more then one option work.

2) The drivers are all different.  Main trouble here is nobody is willing to spend the months of coding to write a driver for a few people.

There are some other solutions... non good (yet)

1) Act labs gun system (old version).  Has 2 guns.... and doesn't work worth spit.  If someone made a version specific for mame it would work well (since it worked well in the demos).  But nobody has done it yet.  

Also, it doesn't work with EYGO monitors (my problem) or TV's.  

There are two guns, but only works with games that have native support.

btw, if you want a gun system, I have one for sale cheap.

2) The best up and coming solution.  Actlabs has a new USB gun coming out.   This has been tested to work with all mame games (the great part about it).  

troubles... VGA only (don't know if it will work with B-Grade monitors yet).
and
only one gun.  (1/2 the fun is john woo'n it)

they are planning a TV version to come out soon.

Good points.   they are listening to the emulation scene this time... and are even talking about helping people hack their guns into more realistic cases.

3) haven't found a 3rd worth noting.  A few companies have in other countries sell guns, but nothing I've heard works.

[1UP]

Sorry, Chuck, that's pretty much what I thought...  But I do have a way to hook up two positional guns pretty easy!  Go to http://www.1uparcade.com/project-swyoke.html and just substitute a positional gun for the yoke!  Positional guns (Terminator 2, Space Gun etc) can occasionally be found on ebay.

Good Luck.

[matt]

Chuck, I don't know how they work, but at http://www.act-labs.com/gun1.htm
they have a light gun that is going to be available next month that will work in MAME (at least it says it does) if everything they say about its true I will order one, and the price is right to, hopefully for that low a price its good quality! Take Care Matt

With so meny shooting game in mame today i would like to put a happs light gun (area 51 type) in my cabinet.