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vitalsfading:

--- Quote from: AndyWarne on May 21, 2008, 04:56:24 am ---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

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ok i wasn't talkin about using it with  another gun setup i was talking about desoldering it for the wiimote adding in leads and soldering the leads to the sensor and the wiimote google wii nes zapper


and btw yes i fo think that the happ guns are desirable maybe you should find out wh t people want before you tell themwhat they want(not intended to be rude) i am a business owner and its usually a good idea to find out what your customers want  before you start selling stuff. i do belive that the happ guns are disarable simply because they are the real deal

stan2323:
What I really really really want is the 29 inch HAPP pump action shot gun to work well with Mame or even regular computer games.  That would be totally awesome.

Turnarcades:

--- Quote from: DJ_Izumi on May 20, 2008, 10:31:14 pm ---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. :)

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Already done that, even hard-wired the controls to joypad hacks so the arcade controls could be used. This was one of my first projects, and is soon up for sale too.

vitalsfading:
nice cab  btw, ok just got an update from hagstrom they can build it but they warn me that an interface like this using mame may effect playability from a stand point of graphics because they said the would have to redraw  the screen to put the trackers for there system on so you would have multiple flashes,although they did say it would work no price as of yet. but i told them if they can find a better way of doing it i am open to suggestions, i did mention to them maybe they could build the interface to use the happ guns using hardware/software to triangulate screen position using an ir array, basically something similar to the lcd top gun but using arcade quality hardware. which seeing that there is pretty much a slim to none chance of removing the flashes from mame itself. this might be the best compromise of both technology's to suit my needs and get the arcade guns into the hands of home arcade builders an players. i will update as they should be e-mailing me back today. but also i am still going to experiment with the wii into a happ gun project to see if i can pull it off to my satisfaction.

TPB:
Vitalsfading,

Have you considered trying this interface ? :

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=80261.msg838484#msg838484


It allows you to use Happ lightguns on your PC via a USB connection.

The benefits ... it's an off-the-shelf solution, that's already being manufactured, and is available right now.


The drawbacks :

* It's a bit pricey, at $159.95

* To date, no-one's reported using this product, so there's no guarantee it'll function as claimed.

* Given it interfaces the Happ lightgun to a PC, it should be recognised by MAME ... but until someone's tried it, there's no guarantee.

* As mentioned by Frizzle above ... from the spec's of this product, it appears to only work at VGA resolution or better, so it'll only work with PC monitors ... it won't work with Arcade monitors that have a lower resolution and frequency.

* It mentions it's WINDOWS 98/ME Compatible, but no mention of Windows XP (which most of us are using for MAME installs), or other Windows versions such as 2000 or Vista.


That's a rather substantial list of drawbacks ... but still worth a thought, as an alternative to having Hagstrom develop an entire new interface "from scratch" on your behalf.

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