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| slightly over complicated lightgun question..... |
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| buks:
I would like to use a lightgun (or two if possible) on my MAME cab. The slightly complicated part is that I am using a VGA to SCART cable (see this website for building details : http://ryoandr.free.fr/english.html). What little I know of lightguns is that they plug into your pc and your video/tv out. Seeing as I'm using a TV but the pc thinks its a monitor will this cause problems ? NOTE : I said this was complicated and even I'm confused. The home made cable goes from the graphics card monitor socket NOT the s-video/composite/whatever. This is something to do with RGB signals but its all rocket science to me ! Incidentally, although I've not seen the output of MAME on a video monitor, I cannot recommend enought the VGA to SCART TV solution (although I understand that SCART is only a European TV Standard so this may be useless info for anyone else ?). I was previously using an Nvidia s-video out and the picture quality was not very good. Windows was unreadable, MAMEWAH was bareable and games were okay. I then switched to an ATI Radeon 9600 s-video out and the picture quality was better but still not brilliant. Reading up on stuff I stumbled accross the site I mentioned above and one quick visit to Maplins (electronics supplier) and a very kind brother who can work wonders with a soldering iron and I was up and running. Powerstrip took some getting used to and it took ages to find 800x600 resolution that worked (google came up with the good though !). I am currentlly playing GTA San Andreas in 800x600 and it looks superb - most people thing its a PC monitor its that good. Ooops - looks like I've wandered off my own topic ! Any suggestions on the light gun would be good. Its not essential as I can use my Ultimarc trackball but I really fancy trying Area 51 and Alien the Gun using a proper light gun. And I 'll feel like a kid again :) Many thanks in advance, Buks |
| forbiddenlyrics:
Have you looked into a GunCon2 gun? There are many topics on the main forum about it and since you are using a TV it will be a simple hook-up. |
| buks:
cheers mate - I will search for the guncon posts in the forums. |
| StephenH:
The Act Labs PC Gun may work, as long as you are not connecting Horizontal and Vertical Sync together. Connect it to the VGA out of your computer, and connect your SCART cable to its decoder. |
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