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| b3atmania:
Is there a good gun solution for homebrew cabinets yet? Mind you, I don't consider the Act-Labs gun or even the Namco Guncon 2 a good solution. Today's console lightguns (even Namco's Guncon 2!) don't work with widescreen TV, 100Hz TV, progressive scan display, plasma screen, projection screen and LCD screen. Also every time you fire a lightgun the screen does a white flash. It's very straining on the eyes. Lightgun technology has not kept up with current display technology and the eye-strain is unbearable. The Act-Labs thing is no better than the console offerings. All use the same out-dated technology. Buying one will certainly render it useless very soon. I wonder why no-one has been working on a better solution? |
| anthony691:
--- Quote from: b3atmania on May 17, 2003, 06:56:09 am ---Is there a good gun solution for homebrew cabinets yet? Mind you, I don't consider the Act-Labs gun or even the Namco Guncon 2 a good solution. Today's console lightguns (even Namco's Guncon 2!) don't work with widescreen TV, 100Hz TV, progressive scan display, plasma screen, projection screen and LCD screen. Also every time you fire a lightgun the screen does a white flash. It's very straining on the eyes. Lightgun technology has not kept up with current display technology and the eye-strain is unbearable. The Act-Labs thing is no better than the console offerings. All use the same out-dated technology. Buying one will certainly render it useless very soon. I wonder why no-one has been working on a better solution? --- End quote --- 1st off, does your cab have an LCD or PLASMA? NO gun could possibly work with these with out modification (csensors around the screen ect.) I agree that improvements could be made, but you need to pick your battles, this one isn't worth it! Even the DC lightguns make a white flash (or those games do). And these things might surprize you with thier functionality. Just a thought... |
| u_rebelscum:
--- Quote from: b3atmania on May 17, 2003, 06:56:09 am ---Is there a good gun solution for homebrew cabinets yet? ....Lightgun technology has not kept up with current display technology and the eye-strain is unbearable.... ... I wonder why no-one has been working on a better solution? --- End quote --- 1) For homebrew cabinets? No. Reason: $$$ 2) At has kept up, but just not on the consumer price level. Why $5000 is "consumer level" for a TV and $30 is expected for a equally advanced lightgun? Add another zero, buddy. Also, be aware that the number of CRT TVs still outnumber the number of LCD+plasma TVs combined. But, yes, the eye strain is a big pain with the current consumer lightguns. :( 3) They have been working on it. The "solutions" found so far have been found to be too hard to add in by the "average consumer", or too expensive, or both. The other problem is the market is so small, they can't put too much money into researching it, unless it's a side effect of reasearch on some other high volumne product. If you can't wait for such a high end lightgun, buy an arcade lightgun (need to buy the cab & PCB, too). |
| paigeoliver:
Even with a real arcade lightgun you will run into this problem. Most of them flash the screen too. =) |
| Distortion:
--- Quote from: anthony691 on May 17, 2003, 08:53:23 am ---1st off, does your cab have an LCD or PLASMA? NO gun could possibly work with these with out modification (csensors around the screen ect.) --- End quote --- if there's someone with a plasma in their arcade machine, they need to get their priorities straight...possibly reconsider where that plasma should be...that is unless it's the Daewoo with no speakers. that'd make a nice doorstop. |
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