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Arcade Light Gun Interface comming
Turnarcades:
I'm still waiting for a decent light gun solution at all. I've got some LCD Topguns and they look the nuts with loads of buttons and a mini-stick on the back, but setting them up is a pain and I've all but given up, what with different settings for Windows (PC) games and for all different versions of MAME. :badmood:
DJ_Izumi:
All this hard work is why I'm looking at instead, building a PS2 cabinate that while having an arcade control panel, will also have standard PlayStation game ports, memory card slots, USB ports and composite video jacks (Guncon ports) on the front, about where the coin mech would be on a standard cab. Then I can use it for the countless ports of arcade games and just connect in the Guncons for Namco's gun games. :)
vitalsfading:
now before i say this cause i have been thinking i still am going to go with my original plan with the original arcade guns but if they can get mame to use the guns, i kinda had an brilliant stroke of genius. not alot of people like the wiimote cause of the wireless and the look i was kinda of looking around the net for someone that has put one in an arcade gun when i cam across one article about putting a wiimote into a nes zapper. now the only thing that can hinder this plan is the length of the wires(if they will degrade the signal).here is what you do disassemble the wiimote de-solider the ir sensor(camera what ever it is lol). get your self to gun half's,trigger assembly,and hoses off of haps web site what ever style.solder leads to the sensor and mount it into the happ gun halfs near the front. run the leads thru hose and solder them back to the wiimote. you will probably need a button on the side of the gun for the button that hooks the gun to the computer(blue tooth) mount the hoses to the cabinet and setup up some kind of power supply to power the wiimote with out battery's. if i had to use a wiimote thats is how i would do it i probably would end up getting the two 45's with the soliends or the kanomi style guns with moving slides.
btw just an update i can't find were i put my happ light guns so if someone has one they would want to loan to hagstrom to get this going it would be much appreciated. PM if you can do this i will check with them on the particulars. i know that they will not disasemble the gun i would guess that they need it for testing an such
AndyWarne:
The Wii sensor specs are documented on the web, and it does send location information directly. But you would not be able to just de-solder it and fit it into another gun. It needs a microcontroller and other circuitry. So you would have to go with the whole PCB. Connecting power to it would be easy though to avoid the batteries.
But are the Happ gun halves really that desirable? The ones I looked at were available either in pink (!) or bright blue. A kids toy gun would make a neater gun than these. Maybe there are other variations.
If the sensor in the Wii-mote ever becomes an off-the-shelf part, I will start development of a gun immediately. It was developed especially for Nintendo though.
I do have some good contacts at one particular chip manufacturer though, I will give them another prod.
Andy
TPB:
--- Quote from: AndyWarne on May 21, 2008, 04:56:24 am ---
I do have some good contacts at one particular chip manufacturer though, I will give them another prod.
--- End quote ---
Andy,
Please do ! :)
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