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Happ light guns - any progress / direction to give?
« on: October 31, 2005, 03:41:18 pm »
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Re: Happ light guns - any progress / direction to give?
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2005, 07:38:32 pm »
The main (& only) problem is getting it work in windows.

The timing/locating that was done by the original arcade hardware requires some extra hardware to be used for it to work in windows.

There's supposed to be a board that does this, but no one here has tested it.  It's possible to BYO, if you're really good at electronic timing. ::)

(Or you can try hacking the stuff out of other lightguns.)


Once it works accurately in windows, it'll work in mame.
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Re: Happ light guns - any progress / direction to give?
« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2005, 12:01:53 pm »
A place to start :) I've emailed them about the board. It looks like one board will support 2 guns.

Do the Happ guns still flash the screen?

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Re: Happ light guns - any progress / direction to give?
« Reply #3 on: November 01, 2005, 10:02:53 pm »
Heres a wacky idea: if I were to take a guncon2 board and solder the connectors for the happs gun to the right places, would it work properly?

It seems to me that the optics should be interchangeable, and the trigger... well, its a switch.

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Re: Happ light guns - any progress / direction to give?
« Reply #4 on: November 02, 2005, 10:27:52 am »
Maybe we can get Kev at RetroBlast to do a review.... He'd likely get the interface free to test and write a review. With nobody on this board trying it, they aren't selling to their niche. A little positive or negative feedback is what this product needs.

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Re: Happ light guns - any progress / direction to give?
« Reply #5 on: November 02, 2005, 10:52:31 am »
From my understanding is that Kevin has emailed them numerous times asking for a review model, and the company is either not responding or they are giving him the run-around.

I'm sure Kevin can give us an update on the situation.

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Re: Happ light guns - any progress / direction to give?
« Reply #6 on: November 03, 2005, 09:51:35 am »
I haven't heard back from them yet ... any one have details on the hardware differences? I can help write / modify drivers but have little understanding on the hardware side of this.

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Re: Happ light guns - any progress / direction to give?
« Reply #7 on: November 03, 2005, 10:17:04 am »
The main (& only) problem is getting it work in windows.

The timing/locating that was done by the original arcade hardware requires some extra hardware to be used for it to work in windows.

There's supposed to be a board that does this, but no one here has tested it.  It's possible to BYO, if you're really good at electronic timing. ::)

(Or you can try hacking the stuff out of other lightguns.)

Once it works accurately in windows, it'll work in mame.

That boardset only works with 98/ME it says, would it work sort of like the guns for House of The Dead and Virtua Squad?  If so, that would make them less than ideal for anything.