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RandyT:
An update:

I took the XBOX into the bedroom and hooked up everything to the 37". Had the same problems. So I decided to find out what the gun could and couldn't see by watching the laser as I moved off the screen. Turns out there may be some manufacturing issues, unless this is normal.

Thinking it made sense to do so, I stuck the LED bars to the sides of the monitor, as close to vertical screen center as possible. Did the test, and found that the bottom, especially the corners, could not be seen by the camera. at a distance of 6 feet exactly with the bars 35.5" apart. However, there was probably an extra foot (!) above the screen where the laser stayed on! WTH?

I moved the bars down so that the bottoms were flush to the bottom of the monitor, which put the top group of LEDs at roughly the center of the screen.. I can now easily hit the bottom of the screen and a few inches below.

I thought my problem was solved, but not yet. Just being able to hit the screen isn't good enough, you need to be able to hit the LEDs. This meant pulling back another foot, otherwise I couldn't start the calibration sequence.

So, as it turns out, I may have a misaligned camera or bad optics in the gun, and it's possible that others may as well. If the same thing is happening to you, shift the bars up or down, depending on what part of the screen you seem to lose range on. I'll be looking to see how to adjust these things at some time to see if it can be fixed.

So a fairly satisfying game of HOTD3 was played, but it still seems awfully far away. The arcade unit used a larger projection screen and you stand closer.

But it did seem to work a little better.

RandyT

eastbayarb:
I got my 2 guns from play-asia within like a day of ordering (very fast service, especially for UPS).

I have only set one of them up, but I am currently using it with XBOX via component video (480p with my flat screen HDTV screen - it is NOT an LCD) I played 1 player using 1 gun with House of the Dead 3 and it works great! Weird thing is, When I try to play House of the Dead 2 (which is unlockable), in game I cannot shoot! Anyone else experience this?

I will try with my PS2 and PC soon...

eastbayarb:
I know someone has mentioned that playing MAME with these guns, you need to set the resolution to always display at a fixed resolution, but how do you do this with MAME32? I am currently running MAME32 optimized for P4 version .103u4

aljupy:
@Silver:

What I really do in Zombie Raid is:
1)I Run game
2)I press F2
3)I press F3
4)Using P1Start and P2start I go to the Callibration "in game"
5)I calibrate Both players (This calibration is like T2 or Revolution-X)
6)When I Finish all I press F2
7)I press F3

IMPORTANT: After all that I SAVE IN A STATE (Pressing Shift+F7) Because EVERY time I run the game, calibration is Lost. I Learned that 2 years ago with my ugly-crappy Act Labs (It was very painfull to me)

I can not run TIME CRISIS, I Have it in mame 0.95, I have timecrisisa (ROM) and timecrisisb (ROM). But none of them are working. It is not that important, Because I have it in PSX and in PS2. But it doesn´run in my PC. IT "goes out" after 1 minute that rom is loaded

@RANDYT (And everyBody):

For a XBOX: Please, Use a "MAD CATZ BLASTER", or a "BERETTA 92 FS from CYBERGUN/INFOGRAMES" (Not the LCD TOP GUN). This two LightGuns are OFFICIAL And WILL NEVER DISAPPOINT YOU in Xbox Light-Gun games. They are specially designed for XBOX.

For a PS2: Please, use:

1)NAMCO GUNCON 2
2)SCORPION 3 from BLAZE
3)MAD CATZ BLASTER from "Mad Catz"
4)P992L from "Logic 3"

The only officiall is the Guncon2. This one will never Dissapoint you, the other ones are not official, but they work EXCELLENT for an alternative to the "Blue/Orange" NAMCO GUNCON2.

For a PC: Use a "LCD TOP GUN" (Ok, you know it he he he) You´ll never have problems with Dark games or LCD Screens. I think it is the best BECAUSE you can callibrate the EDGES and achive the PERFECT ACCURACY. Obviously, and as you said.....in a PS2 and in a Xbox you´ll shoot about 3 inches away the laser is. It seems that "hardaware Callibration" Is not the way in a PS2 or Xbox. So please, for XBOX and PS2 there are LightGuns Well designed to work FLAWLESSLY.
After all, A PS2/Xbox Ligthgun game has been designed to work with the "Photo Sensor" Of that Lighguns.

If you think you´ll safe 10 USD just for buying another Ligth-Gun for console, cheapest of the ones mentioned above, I think you could be wrong.

IMHO I would consider the "LCD TOP GUN" just for "PC GAMES" and for a PS2/Xbox with a Projector/Big LCD. But mainly just for "PC GAMES" I do not like this Light-Gun in a Xbox/Ps2, Just evade it for Consoles (Just a personall Tip,please, do not offense anyone)

About the LAG : Some months ago, We found in WINGUN A lag when playing House of Dead and mame. Acorns said, that it could be in some VideoCards (mainly a Geforce 4 mx in my case), because WINGUN uses Direct commands and there are some VideoCards that can´t support "Wingun´s directx command + the game using directx + the troubleshooter´s directx commands" . (I hope I´m explainin it well).

YOU CAN SOLVE MAME LAG by Using the "MAME32PLUS+" or some people (Like me) did it by disabling the Directx for MAME32. But for House of Dead.....You can not Disable "TROUBLESHOOTER" Wich uses Direct commands, too.

TO SOLVE IT FOR SURE JUST USE GUNCON2MOUSE. Because it is a MOUSEDRIVER.....Have someone found a Lag with an "Act Labs LightGun"?? -No, Do you know Why?? -BECAUSE IT IS A MOUSE. So if you WANT A PURE MOUSE with your "LCD TOP GUN", please use: GUNCON2MOUSE.

SEE YA!!!!!!!!

Silver:

--- Quote from: eastbayarb on February 06, 2006, 12:49:04 am ---I know someone has mentioned that playing MAME with these guns, you need to set the resolution to always display at a fixed resolution, but how do you do this with MAME32? I am currently running MAME32 optimized for P4 version .103u4

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Once calibrated it appears that you do not need to fix resolutions. I've been testing lots of mame games and initially I was fixing the resolution to the desktop. But now I just the games and let mame decide - the gun stays calibrated through resolution changes fine for me.

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