Guncon Question - So If my Cab usesa TV it will Work?

[Timoe]

I 've searched and read multiple threads and I cant seem to get a straight answer.

If my cabinet is a windows XP computer hooked up to a TV will theGunCon 2's work?

All I need is a driver?  Or do I NOT need a driver?

Can I use 2 simultaneously?

Awesome and thank you.

[JODY]

You'll need a driver.  As long as the driver supports 2 guns 2 will work.  The intent of the driver being worked on is to allow it to be used on a PC.  The gun supports TVs as that is what is used with the Playstation 2.

[IntruderAlert]

You will need the driver.
The current plan is to connect 2 guns for MAME using the latest version of AdvanceMAME
http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/download.html

Check my web site for how to connect to your TV.
The GunCon2 can also be used with an arcade monitor but not currently with a PC monitor

If you have more questions please join the discussion in the main thread:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,35416.0.html

[Timoe]

So I will get 2 guncon2s

Then get the driver

then it will work?

Sweet? 

[IntruderAlert]

this is a work in development so don't get discouraged if everything isn't perfect at first
but it's a pretty good time to jump in because the current driver is pretty good
for 2 gun's you'll also need advancemame-0.96.0
and depending on if you're using composite or svideo you may or may not have to hack a cable
check my page for more info on that
http://intruderalert.myarcade.org/

[Flinkly]

um, i thoguht someone said they got two guns working with plain vanilla mame?  i really don't want to have to mess with advance, so if someone could ponyup the info, that'd be great.

[vibez]

that person was me. If you can get 1 gun working fine, then you will certainly get 2 working without any problems at all with vanilla mame 0.96. The only step needed is mapping gun1 triggers to mouse buttons 0 & 1, & gun2 to buttons 3 & 4 in the guncon control panel. Enable dual lightgun in the mame.ini & your good to go.

You can even use the act-labs troubleshooter tool to get 2 player house of the dead & virtuacop

[IntruderAlert]

so what happened vibez?
did they put a raw mouse driver in this version?

[vibez]

MAME does not handle dual PC Monitor guns.  But it does handle dual TV guns.  When Act Labs made the TV guns, they added a new switch to the design.  When the switch is set for Player 1, the gun sends mouse buttons 1 and 2 for trigger and reload.  When the switch is set for Player 2, the gun sends mouse buttons 3 and 4 instead.  As far as Windows is concerned, it's still just a single mouse with 4 buttons.  So you don't need Raw Input to handle dual TV guns.

The only reason we needed analog+ for the tv versions was because the code was broken. But the author of the troubleshooter submitted a fix to the mame devs & they rolled it into 0.96. So Tv versions will workflawlessly, but the PC vesions will not

[Flinkly]

...i don't get it.  the problem mame has is seeing the two seperate guns at once, aka, two seperate mice.  and why wouldn't it support pc monitor guns?  maybe we should drag this discussion back to the guncon post.

[vibez]

All I know is that it works with the 2 x guncon2's

[eb]

Vibez, do you have two legit GunCon2s? Or the Mission Gun? I note Smog doesn't use authentic GunCon2s for his testing.

Also, your setup is also aVGA + JPAC, but you didn't mention the monitor other than "arcade monitor". I'm assuming that since there's a JPAC in there, it's not a D9200? And everything is accurate?

Just following to see exactly what works before I begin splashing money around

[vibez]

My guns are these

http://shop.gameplay.co.uk/webstore/productpage.asp?ProductCode=PT0808&title=logic_3_p99l_laser_blaster

I use a 15hz 19" hantarex polo arcade monitor.

As i've said before. It works perfect at certain resolutions. But someting is causing the gun not to work at all at 640x480. But this is down to the jpac or arcadevga.