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Act-Lab's TV gun to support 2 players?
anthony691:
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What? you can use a VGA and a TV gun at the same time? how does that work? is that documented on a website anywhere? I really want to see it...
If only ActLabs made a dual TV/VGA, 2 player compatible gun then I would be sold.. or some sort of adapters like X-arcade so that it would never be obsolete... Modular is they way to go I say.. Maybe someday......
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I like to think that the admin was joking when he said this even though he was probably right. Later in his post there he said you would need to use a TV and a VGA monitor! Which is simply ridiculous! I mean... you know... it's sorta cool. You would have to switch the TV gun to 2 and leave the VGA gun to be 1.
Rasher2k:
Is Actlabs deliberately trying to be vague by giving us only snippets of detail about their 'new' PC TV Light Gun? Until I see hard evidence from Actlabs I'll continue being a skeptic.
JIMMY - ACT LABS (in the forum):
QUOTE: The first new feature is a two-player mode...
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Woohoo! We have two light guns hooked up to the PC! John Woo bring it on!
ACT LABS USB PC Light Gun TV Out Version (on the web page):
QUOTE: Only one light gun can be used at a time...
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Whoa whoa, hang on, didn't we want to use both of them at the same time? Wasn't that the whole point of having two guns? So we could Woo it with two? Whats the point of having two if you can't use them together? You may as well just have one!
GRANT - ACT LABS (in the forum):
QUOTE: There is really no obstacles in getting the 2 player implemented into MAME. We just contacted a developer from MAME. The only obstacle is getting the people to reserve some time to implement it into the MAME code.
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So there are two guns, one for each player, so technically it's two player right? But not simultaneously, as mentioned above. So this leaves me thinkin' the code in MAME is just gonna be a switching flag telling the guns which one of them is operating at any one time.
Are they trying to fool us into buying a 'two-player mode' light gun where the second play has their shot only when the first player is finished? So they're really 'two-player' ALTERNATING light guns? That's not how you make porridge! Nor 'two-player' light guns for that matter...
shmokes:
Like everyone else I hope there will be simultaneous two player support but here's a quote from the details page for the TV USB gun on the Act-Labs website:
o Will not work with LCD/Plasma TVs or computer monitors
o Only one light gun can be used at a time
o Calibration required only once, unless light gun is re-connected
o Can be connected to TVs with Composite video input through supplied adapter
Two player support could include games where you have to take turns trading off who gets the gun. The detail page says very clearly: Only one light gun can be used at a time
cuthulas:
Maybe this post should be made a temporary sticky? I just emailed Act Labs with my pre-order number for the first light gun and told them to bump my order to two ONLY IF the gun is coming with the additional features (autofire [in some games] and 2-player support). I received a reply within the hour confirming an additional gun added to my pre-order.
Now, just cross our fingers that the MAME gurus add the necessary coding for the 2-player gun support. Even if MAME is temporarily without it, 2-player gun games of any type (no matter how crappy) tend to be a blast.
Cuth
Frostillicus:
wow i've never seen a thread so small with so many of the posts by one person -ahem, there is a 'modify' button to edit posts in the corner.
Just went to their site, the TV light gun sales section had this at the bottom of the page(i added the italics):
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Notes:
o Will not work with LCD/Plasma TVs or computer monitors
o Only one light gun can be used at a time
o Calibration required only once, unless light gun is re-connected
o Can be connected to TVs with Composite video input through supplied adapter