USB Optical Light Gun Interface Board

[Fammer]

Hi guys,

Has anyone seen/used one of these for us that have Happ light guns sitting around?

http://www.r0r3.com/productsusbopticalgun.htm

[mairsil]

Well, I plan to get one for my dissertation research, but that won't be until the end of the year.

[ErikRuud]

It has been brought up several times on the board, but I don't think anyone has actually gotten one.

Here are couple of the older posts.

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=22613.0

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=42472.0

[divemaster127]

Im already a happ reseller, if I was to purchase 1 of these would I be able to get some support on the testing of it, to see if we could get this to work, I would love to be able to have the happ guns on the cabs
thanks
dm

[Kremmit]

Im already a happ reseller, if I was to purchase 1 of these would I be able to get some support on the testing of it, to see if we could get this to work, I would love to be able to have the happ guns on the cabs
thanks
dm

Well, what kind of price can you get on one?  I think the Happ price has been the major sticking point thus far.

[divemaster127]

Unless someone can get me a number it looks like happ does not sell these, you have to buy them straight, i only get discounts on the guns...if you can get a number let me know
thanks
dm

[Kremmit]

Urp, brain fart, you're right, they're not sold by Happ.  But still, the price is what has kept anybody from trying it out.  Nobody wants to be a $160 guinea pig.

[u_rebelscum]

Urp, brain fart, you're right, they're not sold by Happ.  But still, the price is what has kept anybody from trying it out.  Nobody wants to be a $160 guinea pig.

They were sold by happs a few years ago, along with the " USB Trackball Interface Board".  I think happs dropped both because of the prices, too.

[Hiub1]

Hey, how about we start a pool of money. If everyone donates $10, someone who knows what they are doing can get a board, write good drivers for it, and if it works out, we all end up with a kick ass set of light guns. If not, we are all only out $10 or so. Who is up to writing a driver for these things?!

[divemaster127]

I wrote the company yesterday to see if anyone at this company had tested this with mame, I received a reply from a randy, he suggested I should  purchase a act labs gun
dm

[Kremmit]

Urp, brain fart, you're right, they're not sold by Happ.  But still, the price is what has kept anybody from trying it out.  Nobody wants to be a $160 guinea pig.

They were sold by happs a few years ago, along with the " USB Trackball Interface Board".  I think happs dropped both because of the prices, too.

Thanks!  I thought I was going crazy there.  I was sure they sold them, but I couldn't find them on the Happ site anywhere. 

And I'd cough up some bucks for a test board, if somebody who seems like they could really see the project through wanted to write the driver.

[Flinkly]

wouldn't it have some of the same problems that all the regular light gun games have?  it seems like an expensive way to get inferior light guns to work.  guns from the arcades that use the same infrared light like the lcd top gun is the way to go, and i'm pretty sure that the ror3 doesn't support that, unless their board just converts the ouptput from the gun system.  either way, it's expensive for what it is and would need to have a driver written for each kind of light gun.

i think the product would still have the limitations of dark areas, no tracking, and only working on some monitors.