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| Brewser:
Man, I am confused by all this. I have a Betson arcade monitor in my cab. Can I hook up the Guncon 2 into the usb port and load the drivers and be off and running? I went to their website and it states you need to make a special VGA converter to do this, but I have read nothing about this on this forum. Thanks for the help. |
| SirPoonga:
--- Quote from: Brewser on July 14, 2005, 05:01:56 pm ---Man, I am confused by all this. I have a Betson arcade monitor in my cab. Can I hook up the Guncon 2 into the usb port and load the drivers and be off and running? --- End quote --- Basically yes, read the guncon2 thread (and smogdragon's site, links in first post of thread) --- Quote ---I went to their website and it states you need to make a special VGA converter to do this, but I have read nothing about this on this forum. --- End quote --- That's because this is the PC USB gun we are talking about, meant for VGA monitors, not arcade monitors. I think there's been limited success in getting one of the act labs gun models to work with arcadevga. |
| Brewser:
--- Quote from: SirPoonga on July 14, 2005, 05:05:54 pm --- --- Quote from: Brewser on July 14, 2005, 05:01:56 pm ---Man, I am confused by all this. I have a Betson arcade monitor in my cab. Can I hook up the Guncon 2 into the usb port and load the drivers and be off and running? --- End quote --- Basically yes, read the guncon2 thread (and smogdragon's site, links in first post of thread) --- Quote ---I went to their website and it states you need to make a special VGA converter to do this, but I have read nothing about this on this forum. --- End quote --- That's because this is the PC USB gun we are talking about, meant for VGA monitors, not arcade monitors. I think there's been limited success in getting one of the act labs gun models to work with arcadevga. --- End quote --- Now you confused me even more. I have read the threads and have gone to smog's site, but you have to build a special circuit to get this to work with an Arcade Monitor through VGA. First you stated you can and then in your next line you state you can't with an arcade monitor. I do have an Act Labs gun and it does work with my arcade monitor, but I also have a GunCon2 laying around and would like to try and get that working as well, but I don't want to/know how to build a special electronic circuit to splice into my VGA cable. I was hoping it would be as easy as plugging in the Guncon2 into the USB port and then loading the special drivers. |
| Chris:
--- Quote from: MKChamp on July 14, 2005, 05:00:01 pm ---Fixed -dual_lightguns option. [Jonathan Lunman] --- End quote --- As far as I know, that only applies to the TV guns. I know I have not been able to make that option work with my VGA guns. |
| SirPoonga:
Oh yes, you are right. My bad. What I said works for TV and a vga card that has rca out. For VGA to arcade monitor with a guncon2 you need to follow IntruderAlerts info with smogs info. http://intruderalert.myarcade.org/GUNCON2.htm That circuit would not be tough to build on perfboard from radioshack. The only problems I can see if you try and perfboard that circuit is you might want to replace the line of solder form pin 8 to that resistor with a jumper wire and the smae with pin 4 to the resistor. Otherwise you can layout the parts the same way and just make solder trails that looks like the circuit. |
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