It'd be an easy one to do if you really wanted to.... However, TelcoLou hit the nail on the head. Unless you're building a dedicated static shooter cab or fitting swappable panels, then they'd get in the way of everything else.
You are probably right it just seems there would be a way if it
was used on a wide enough control panel and placed cleverly enough.
Though I admit I have no experience designing control panels..
The thing is that that they don't just sit on top of a Joystick.... they do have an up/down (back to forward) movement like a joystick, but the other axis is not side to side like a joystick, but a rotary twist for the left to right of the gun.
Yes I am aware of that I should have been more technical in my
first post.
But Maybe a mechanism of some kind that could rotate
as a gun would need to. Wither it be a sit on top solution
or independent it could send key signals to Mame as a regular
Mame joystick would.
In actual fact Act Labs released a gun that was just a thing, siting on top of a joystick.... it was a miserable failure and very very difficult to play anything with. I think it was called something like "The Mousegun" or something similar... anyway, to cut a long story short, it was crap!
Yeah everything I ever heard about the mouse guns was Bad..
My point is I can control all those game like Terminator, Area 51,
etc.. right now with just a joystick and it works.
Just if it had a more of a way to aim like simply holding a
gun in your hand.
The other problem with pot based guns like the T2 ones, is that they only work well with pot based shooter games. On top of that, there are still problems with the interpretation and use of POT based inputs in Mame. Jurassic Park is a case in point, where guns track very badly even after calibration.
Well I know what your saying which is my I was thinking/wondering
of a Mame-Joystick route.
If you really want some of those, then pick up a set of T2 Guns off e-bay (they sell for next to nothing most of the time) and you can very easily interface them to a PC and Mame.
Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
That is a interesting thought though probably not
a permanent solution. I would not begin to know how to interface
them; Would seem like a waste just for a handful of games as
much as I loved Terminator.
Maybe it just not a do-able solution don't know
just seems it would defiantly be more compatible.
At any rate...
thanks for your input!
Teutonic Darkness