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| Will Playstation to USB adapter work with light gun? |
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| SNAAAKE:
--- Quote from: arcadecab on April 13, 2003, 08:07:46 pm ---I have a radio shack Playstation to USB adapter and it works great with my Sony PS2 controller and my Pelican arcade fighter stick. I am wondering if it will possibly with a PS2 light gun, such as Guncom or possibly others? I am using just a standard NEC computer monitor. Anyone try this or believe it would work? I read in a previous thread that the steering wheel would probably work--wondering if same is true for light gun. Thanks. --- End quote --- Doesnt work..I have guncon 1 and guncon 2...none of them works with any converter..I have 3 different converters(INCLUDING radio shack converter)..i tried PC monitor and TV..no dice :( |
| Rasher2k:
Out of interest, on a REAL playstation do the Guncon's buttons register on NON gun games? Just wondering if maybe the game sets up an special environment for the gun, if not you should at least be able to register button presses with a convertor shouldn't you? Anyone tried using the Guncon with a gun game on a playstation emulator? |
| SNAAAKE:
--- Quote from: Rasher2k on April 14, 2003, 02:38:48 pm ---Out of interest, on a REAL playstation do the Guncon's buttons register on NON gun games? Just wondering if maybe the game sets up an special environment for the gun, if not you should at least be able to register button presses with a convertor shouldn't you? Anyone tried using the Guncon with a gun game on a playstation emulator? --- End quote --- even though are not cool with people(artwork cop) but I will try to answer your questions. Yes the guncon red button and triger registers inputs(I think its input 8 and 6) but thats it. There is nothing else goin on when you try to test the gun in windows control panel. And it doesnt work with psx emulator...my guess is that Psx guncons only work with composite input so there is no way... Whatever I would just get an actlab gun(for mame). |
| Moebius:
No matter what you do, Playstation light-guns will NOT work with MAME. MAME simulates gun input by looking for a mouse (eg. if you've no gun, you can use a mouse to move the crosshair). The Act-Labs gun works by simulating a mouse. You can even control the mouse pointer in Windows with it :) The Playstation lightgun doesn't know what a mouse is, let alone act like one. Theoretically, support is possible, but I doubt you'll find any of the MAMEDEVS to program support for a non-PC lightgun directly into MAME. Accept it, and go buy an act-labs gun. They're actually pretty good ;) Moebius |
| Rasher2k:
A while ago I remarked "I guess I'm still waiting for someone to hack the Guncon!" and got --- Quote from: Dave_K. on March 15, 2003, 01:38:48 pm ---Its already been hacked. Someone wrote a guncon2 (usb) driver for Linux. I haven't seen anyone take the code and put into mame though, but I'm sure its just a matter of time. --- End quote --- I don't know if this helps any but there you go. I never did ask Dave the details. |
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