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ACT-LABS Gun arrived today
Lilwolf:
Its not always all that easy. you have to align the optics and you have to make sure there is a place to mount whatever triggers the button.
So if they changed the internal board sizes, then you can't just swap one shell for another.
And trying to get it into a nintendo gun (for instance) you have to use a lot of hot glue :)
Kremmit:
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--- Quote from: Kremmit on July 27, 2005, 12:30:13 am ---Vibez: Is your new gun a PC version or TV version, and does it have the player 2 switch Tivogre is talking about in his other thread?
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Its a PC version, they dont have the switch, so no matter which trigger you press, it always shows as mouse button 0.
Also I don't think The switches are physical switches on the TV versions. I think the switching is controlled by the vga box
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If that's the case, then maybe the way to re-assign the buttons may be to cut the traces from the switches on the player two gun- so that they don't send any signal at all down the line to the VGA box. Then add an extra cable that's wired to those switches and to the appropriate buttons on a hacked mouse.
No, wait, if you did that, the screen wouldn't flash when you pulled the trigger, would it? I wonder if there's a way to make the VGA box trigger a flash without sending a mouse click down the line to the PC?
Or maybe there's a way to build a circuit that would attach between the 2nd gun's VGA box and the PC that would "catch" the mouse clicks and re-assign them for us?
vibez:
The vga box is what actually sends the flash signal direct to the card, I'd love to me able to hack it I could wire up my guncon2 guns to the vgabox to make the flash
Kremmit:
--- Quote from: vibez on July 28, 2005, 12:13:28 pm ---The vga box is what actually sends the flash signal direct to the card, I'd love to me able to hack it I could wire up my guncon2 guns to the vgabox to make the flash
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You mean it sends the flash signal to the monitor, not to the card- right?
Either way, seems like it ought to be easy enough to get a vga box to flash- just need to wire the switch in your guncon's trigger to a circuit that mimic's the signal from the ActLabs gun- or just wire to a hacked ActLabs gun. Or to any other gun with a vgabox- if all you need is a flash, it hardly matters which gun's vgabox you're hacking. I've got one of those el-cheap-o "PC Auto Mag" gameport guns here, I wonder if I can get it to trigger a flash by jumpering two of the pins on the gun connector...
vibez:
--- Quote from: Kremmit on July 28, 2005, 11:41:37 pm ---
--- Quote from: vibez on July 28, 2005, 12:13:28 pm ---The vga box is what actually sends the flash signal direct to the card, I'd love to me able to hack it I could wire up my guncon2 guns to the vgabox to make the flash
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You mean it sends the flash signal to the monitor, not to the card- right?
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