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Two questions on the ActLabs guns
shmokes:
The TV version has a 10' cable.
Chris:
--- Quote from: OSCAR on May 24, 2003, 10:21:18 pm ---I have enjoyed a few rounds of Area51 with it, but I have also found it to be just annoying enough (shooting exactly at the edge of the screen to reload, and so forth) that I can't play more than a couple games with it before switching to a non-lightgun game.
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There's a patch for this which works perfectly; firing off-screen reloads correctly. URebelScum has integrated this patch into MAME Analog+; I just compiled the patch into standard MAME. I also made an external connector for the gun, effectively extending the cable another foot and a half or so, so I can stand back as far as I would in the arcade, and the gun is still pretty accurate from that distance...
--Chris
Luxury:
heres another stupid question. how feasible would it be to use a gun as your mouse? I dont have a trackball in my panel, and i for sure dont want an ugly mouse sitting on top of it either. so would it work for selecting games, navigating menus, etc? - not that i would, im just curious. or would i need to calibrate it every time it starts up (and you probably need a mouse to calibrate).
Chris:
You do not need a mouse to calibrate. If your a really good shot, yes you can mouse with it, although you can't "drag-and-drop" and you can only "right click" after first "left clicking".
--Chris