Act-Labs GS Series guns?

[rampy]

Has anyone tried the older GS PC Act-lab guns review http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1043

they plug into the gameport... and seem to support 2 guns...  is this the model that only would work if a given game had been designed with it in mind/special driver?

And the obligatory - would this work in mame with light gun games?

Is it a true light gun or a positioning based unit... ?

*shrug*

rampy

[Tiger-Heli]

AFAIK, these are true light guns that only worked with games specifically designed for them and sucked in MAME, but I could be wrong.

[Lilwolf]

doesn't work in mame at all.

with the beta mouse driver, you can get one to work, but it's not nearly as good as the new ones.

but if you go that solution... I have a set for sale... cheap...  trouble is that I don't htink they are worth the shipping charge.

[rampy]

drats... ok I thought I had stumbled upon something...

saw a couple on ebay was giving it some thoughts (the dual gun part piqued my interest)

rampy

[wwater]

You guys are dead wrong. You do not need a beta mouse driver for Win 98 and they guns will work perfectly out of the box. They are very easy to calibrate and use and will work with ANY MAME GAME.

[u_rebelscum]

... and will work with ANY MAME GAME.

Good to hear, I never got to test one.  Just to be clear, it's a analog joystick AFA mame knows, right?  So you need to enable joysticks, not mice?

[Chris]

This is the first report I've seen of the guns that plug into the 15-pin gameport working; we've only seen USB ones work before now.  What version of MAME are you using?

[postalp123]

You guys are dead wrong. You do not need a beta mouse driver for Win 98 and they guns will work perfectly out of the box. They are very easy to calibrate and use and will work with ANY MAME GAME.

I agree, I have a pair of the older "Spaceguns" and they work fine on pretty much every working MAME shooter. No 98 drivers needed.

[Chris]

You guys are dead wrong. You do not need a beta mouse driver for Win 98 and they guns will work perfectly out of the box. They are very easy to calibrate and use and will work with ANY MAME GAME.

I agree, I have a pair of the older "Spaceguns" and they work fine on pretty much every working MAME shooter. No 98 drivers needed.

There were three models of spaceguns, as I remember: the 15-pin dual-gun gameport model, a USB single-gun VGA model, and a USB single or dual gun TV model.  Your spaceguns have the 15-pin connector?

[Lilwolf]

Actually, I dont' think anyone has really tried since they redid the input system in mame.

It might actually work now.  I might have to try them out again.  I think they are still in the basement somewhere.

(but I'm still expecting that they really are talking about the newer USB version which DO work fine)

[u_rebelscum]

It should work.  The only questions are calibration and mapping.  I heard calibration on it was a pain.  Mame has to run at whatever res and refresh it was calibrated.

It should have worked in the old way, too (with same calibration problem).  But you have to enable -joystick, and disable -lightgun, and map accordingly.  I was supposed to get a set to test, but it never arrived in the mail.

[postalp123]

You guys are dead wrong. You do not need a beta mouse driver for Win 98 and they guns will work perfectly out of the box. They are very easy to calibrate and use and will work with ANY MAME GAME.

I agree, I have a pair of the older "Spaceguns" and they work fine on pretty much every working MAME shooter. No 98 drivers needed.

There were three models of spaceguns, as I remember: the 15-pin dual-gun gameport model, a USB single-gun VGA model, and a USB single or dual gun TV model.  Your spaceguns have the 15-pin connector?

Nope, mine are USB.

[u_rebelscum]

There were three models of spaceguns, as I remember: the 15-pin dual-gun gameport model, a USB single-gun VGA model, and a USB single or dual gun TV model.  Your spaceguns have the 15-pin connector?

Nope, mine are USB.

Ah, the GS guns, the subject of this post, were the game port guns.  It's been know the two USB models work in 9x.  (Mine do, too.)


And FWIW, the "USB single-gun VGA model" has been doing dual (or three) in official mame for a while now.  In both XP and 9x, but not 2000.  (Do not use the -dual_lightgun option, though; that hack was specifically for the TV "dual" guns.)