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| ErikRuud:
Getting Guncon2 support into MAME itself would be great, but only for those using TV's. I think a more universal "Guncon2" approach would involve a hardware solution that could get its synch from VGA, S-Video or Composite. I really like the camera gun idea the more I look into it. It is independent of the monitor type and size. The gun could be wireless, and almost any gun design could be used. |
| RitchieTheBrit:
Erm, 'K, I know nothing, but I like the way 1UP is thinking. There's some really neat looking GCon guns out there, it would open up a world of possibility! The GCon system seems to offer the most accurate and reliable bas on which to work. And I know that Cybergun have a GCon version of the Desert Eagle 50 cal, as well as a neat little Scorpion... Oh, and I saw an UZI, AN UZI... Oh, and... ;D |
| Silver:
I'd love just to plug in a gun-con and have real-time no white flash tracking. Nice and affordable too! Theres a mame issue - where there does not appear to be native lightgun support. Feeding raw x/y data into the emulated game board would depend on how they got the data. The IR/LED arcade gun systems calculate the postion from the multiple IR data on the game board itself, so emulating that would not be a good idea. Lightgun issue is simply that there no lightguns for pc's that are close to console ones for style/accuracy. However, if we BYOLightGun you could just put the technology inside a guncon case... Personally, I think a BYO gun using a USB camera and LED would be much harder than using an array of IR LEDs around the screen. To use a camera you are going to have to write/acquire software that will analayse a video image and track both movement AND angle (you have to work out where its pointing and where it i). This would take a lot of processing power I believe. This is exactly what eRealgames are doing for there gun - so I would either keep emailing them to release the PC version this year, or if they fail - it looks very hackable as apparantly it already comes with a USB connector. |
| Thenasty:
I'll spend $200 for one when you guys have it working specially for DOS/Arcade Monitor (15khz). |
| sWampy:
--- Quote from: Silver on March 07, 2005, 03:40:24 pm ---Personally, I think a BYO gun using a USB camera and LED would be much harder than using an array of IR LEDs around the screen. To use a camera you are going to have to write/acquire software that will analayse a video image and track both movement AND angle (you have to work out where its pointing and where it i). This would take a lot of processing power I believe. This is exactly what eRealgames are doing for there gun - so I would either keep emailing them to release the PC version this year, or if they fail - it looks very hackable as apparantly it already comes with a USB connector. --- End quote --- Most of the software is already written, there is pretty complete library on sourceforge to do a camera tracking an object such as a nose/gun/eye. How does a bunch of led's around your monitor tell you where the gun is? |
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