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Act-Lab's TV gun to support 2 players?
brandon:
are the act labs guns in anyways modular? ie. could you take a PC Usb gun and plug it into the Pass thru dongle on the TV gun and make it work? If not I dont understand why they dont make it that way so that people would know it could be upgraded later.... I know I would buy one if I knew that later down they road I could add a second gun or connect my PC gun to a TV with a different module or whatever... just seems like it would make more sense to do it that way even for their own production cost. I'm guessing that if someone took the PC gun and TV gun apart the only real difference would be in the pass through circuitry and not in the gun itself.. so in that sense the old actlabs guns might be worth having just for spare parts....
Dak-ak:
*crosses legs to hid bulge* 2 players huh? *has dirty thoughts of 1 player double-fisted area51*
i was wondering if anyone (perhaps one of the actlab guys) know if the tv gun will work with arcade monitors (being fairly similiar). Im going to hook up a arcadevga one of these days...
last part, how do the guns actually plug in? ive been looking for diagrams, but havn't had any luck. They have a dongle that plugs into the video card, and some usb plug somewhere, but im curious how the plugs are arranged and how long hte cables are (tryuing to plan a outlay for my cab)
~Dak~
anthony691:
Wow... everyone needs to calm down! Dr. J, talk to Jimmy at Act-Labs (It is true)! I do own 2 lightguns, but have recieved unplayable results (like at which point having no mouse in Win98 (Which is because of Win98) I haven't done too much with dual guns, because right now i only have one on my cab, and I actully own a CRT monitor that does NOT work with the gun (obviosly because it is Sun, but it has a standard 15 pin plug). And I LOVE my light gun! I just wish everyone here would be a LITTLE less doubting. Someone linked to Jimmy's post earlier in this thread. And if we all know anything it is that Act-Labs NEVER updates thier site (they still have 33 games on thier list) So I meant that thier current PC USB Light Gun could not be very good for 2 player (and that I like it best in analoge MAME for some reason). Come on people I was only trying to be helpful by digging up the game info garbage, and talking to Jimmy about this stuff; I wish this would be slightly better recieved. If I angered you I am sorry.
anthony691:
Oh, and as for the aradevga question check out act-labs Pc lightgun forum (I think there is a post that will be very helpful on this topic) There have been pretty good results using the plain old PC USB Light Gun! ;D
rampy:
Hey Ant691,
I think part of the problem is that you are using blanket statements and backing them up with your "credibility" (i.e. I have a lightgun dedicated website (which is cool, BTW) and am an actlabs associate... I'm an amazon.com associate does that make me a book expert?)
In specific where is the backup on the current PC USB (VGA varient) guns hypothetically not being upgradeable to 2 guns, and where does it state that its a "hardware" issue. I'd just like clarification. I'd settle for a link to a "Jimmy" post on the actlabs board that stated as such. (Don't Jimmy, me jules!)
In this forum, we are all (or a good portion) very excited about Act Labs PC light guns and have spent time in money with many crappy light guns (including act labs usb one=P) trying to get 2 guns to work simultaneously... So you have an eager audience here for this type of news... but that doesn't mean we're naive or don't believe everything we read on the internet.
What you say may be true (and most of us hope it is - except for the existing usb gun not being "upgradable" to 2 gun action) but you didn't pass what you said off credibly... because of the way in which you said it... *shrug* I'm sorry if you got a shite storm outa this, but I can see how that happened.
Good luck
rampy