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severdhed:
hey guys, i was planning on building my second cabinet here soon, i was going to build a stand up cabinet with a vertical monitor with trackball, spinner, and 4way stick.  but as it turns out, money is a little tight right now, so i think i'm going to add those controls to my existing cabinet for now, since it will be alot cheaper.

anyway, i really would love to have a light gun cabinet.  i saw some kids playing one at a local pizza place the other day and it really made me want one.  My existing cabinet uses an LCD monitor, so other than topguns, i don't have much of a choice. I tried wiimotes, but i couldn't get the buttons working, and i couldn't get them to automatically connect via bluetooth, and i don't want to have to exit MALA to sync up the controls every time i want to use them.

so, i got to thinking...we have a 26" TV in our bedroom that maybe gets used once or twice a year.  i already got the OK from the wife to use it.  i went to the attic yesterday and brought down my snes, segaCD and Saturn, to play around with the lightgun games that I have.  i fired up lethal enforcers on the SNES, it was fun (i was playing by myself with both guns), but it looks horrible.  i also have it for the sega CD, which looks a little better, but still not very good.  then i got out Virtua Cop on teh Saturn.  while not the most visually impressive game, it was way better than lethal enforcers, and a ton of fun to play. (until my wife made me shut it off and go to bed)

so i was thinking that i could make a console based lightgun cabinet for not alot of money.  The only problem is, i don't know which console/games to get.   other than the old lethal enforcers guns for the snes/sega genesis...the only other light gun i have is a logic3 predator 2, which works with both the sega saturn, as well as the playstation. (both konami and guncon games)

i thought about doing one with an xbox, since i could mod it, make a nice little frontend that would run the games from the hard drive, but it looks like house of the dead 3 and silent scope are the only lightgun games available for the xbox...which sucks. HOTD games are fun, but i would like to have a little variety.

no matter what i go with, i already have the game consoles to use....i think i have 3 playstations in the attic, i also have a second PS2 that i could use, or a dreamcast.  i would have to buy lightguns for them, but i should be able to get some on ebay or possibly at the flea market for cheap.

i just don't know which way to go.    the dreamcast would be cool, because i already have some dreamcast light gun games..just no guns. 

# Death Crimson OX
# Death Crimson 2 (Japan-only release)
# Confidential Mission
# The House of the Dead 2
# Virtua Cop 2

however the playstation/ps2 seem to have the most avialable gun games.  and i do already have a playstation gun.  i would just use my saturn with virtua cop, but once again, i would like to have at least a few games to keep some variety there.

playstation games are easy to find, there are tons of them at the fleamarkets around here.  i just need some advice.

if you were going to build a console gun cabinet, which system would you use, and what 3 or 4 games would you have to have?

Kajoq:
PS1 with two true GunCons.

You get Time Crisis 1, and 2.  The Point Blank games. Elemental Gearbolt (ZOMG AMAZING underrated game), etc.

AwesomeAlbert:
ps2 with jap guncons2 or similar (black instead of orange, with recoil and lazer aim) , hd loader and harddrive. you can backup any gun game you want.
i have time crisis 3, its awesome you get the arcade feel. ninja assult its not that great. resident evil dead aim doesnt really feel like a gun game. i havnt tried out anyother games. i was meaning of doing the same thing you are planing, lost track though. ps2 has more gun games out than the xbox, you can play ps1 gun games too.

i play duckhunt on my xbox  :o

severdhed:
what emulator are you using to play duckhunt on your xbox, and does it support the lightgun?

severdhed:
today i stopped at a few local pawn shops, to see what i could find.  i found a guncon controller for the playstation for $3 so naturally i bought it.  at another place, i found a guncon2 controller for the PS2 (with the usb port) for $10, so i also bought that.

i have few questions though...

the guncon has a playstation controller port, and a yellow RCA port with a passthrough on it, which i assume i plug into the TV, and then plug the playstation video cable into it. (is that correct)

if so, then how do i connect my guncon 2?  it has a usb port, and a yellow MALE rca plug, but there is no passthrough.  i am assuming that it is missing an adapter or something.  can i use a standard RCA - Y-adapter/splitter, or do i need some kind of special adapter for this to work?

i couldn't find any lightgun games at the pawn shops, but i do have a $30 gamestop/eb giftcard burning a hole in my wallet.  i found time crisis 3 for the ps2 used for $17.99, which i may pick up, but i need to know if i can use my playstation guncon controller as well as my ps2 guncon 2 at the same time on my ps2 to play this game?   if so, is that the case for all of the guncon2 games?  are there any that will not work with the guncon?  Depending on how i like these guns/games, i will probably try to find another one to have a matching pair.

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