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| davidrfoley:
--- Quote from: Jdurg on June 12, 2008, 09:59:38 am ---Wow. This sounds incredible! It's a gun interface, an audio amplifier, AND a video converter. So would this device make it so that I wouldn't need to purchase an ArcadeVGA card, but could instead just plug my computer video output into this thing and it would convert it the proper signal for a real Arcade Monitor? --- End quote --- It does not provide video conversion. The video connectors on the board are simply pass through for the signal so that the board can pick up the sync signals for timing of the gun circuits. |
| wbassett:
--- Quote from: davidrfoley on August 27, 2008, 07:24:39 pm --- --- Quote from: wbassett on June 11, 2008, 04:27:26 pm ---I spoke to Les at Happ. I called in reference to R0R3 USB Optical Light Gun Interface Board (http://www.r0r3.com/productsusbopticalgun.htm). I tried getting ahold of Jack J. McCauley at ROR3 about a half dozen times (not a good sign right there) and he is never at his number and I haven't received a call back from him. --- End quote --- ROR3 had nothing to do with this board or its design. If you were told that you were misled. The board is manufactured and sold by NanoTech Entertainment, and Happ is one of the distributors of the board. --- End quote --- Sorry if I wasn't clear... No I did not mean that ROR3 had anything to do with this new board. I was saying Happ had a light gun interface listed at one time from ROR3. I tried repeatedly to contact ROR3 about the interface and never once got a call back nor was Jack ever in his office. As I stated that was a very bad sign and vibe. I then called Happ and spoke to them and was informed they never received a board from ROR3 to test so they were pulling it from their site. Les at Happ did tell me of this new board and that they do indeed have one and are in the process of testing it out. I relayed the vast interest that many have and he said when they were done testing he would make one available to me to test and write a review on. (If you want to send me one to write a review on that would be fantastic and I am more than positive a lot of people are chomping at the bit to find out more about this board and what it can do :)) Right now I am waiting to hear back from him as are many others. This is the board that a lot of us have been waiting for! Dave maybe you can answer some other questions about it if you don't mind... The pdf I have lists that this board also has multiple inputs, I am assuming for buttons and sticks. Does that mean this can act like an interface for our purposes for cp controls? If so, the 35W amplifer, light gun interface, as well as a CP interface makes this very interesting. Next question, can you give any details on the sonic board? Are there currently guns in production for this technology and if so who makes them and any idea of the MSRP? |
| Shieldwolf:
200.00 for this and 900.00 for two Time Crisis Guns. Might as well buy Time Crisis machine :banghead: |
| wbassett:
--- Quote from: Shieldwolf on August 27, 2008, 08:54:30 pm ---200.00 for this and 900.00 for two Time Crisis Guns. Might as well buy Time Crisis machine :banghead: --- End quote --- Keep in mind we don't have a real street price on this yet, and you don't have to get $900 guns, you can use the basic arcade guns with this too. eBay has arcade guns listed on a regular basis too. Personally, I'm just waiting for all these interfaces to settle and a viable option finally come out of all this and then I will be retro-fitting the optic boards from into airsoft electric guns. There is plenty of room inside them and the air pistons provide quite a recoil kick. In fact my P90 kicks so hard and loud I'll actually have to tame it down. A new recoil gun from Happ is $147 http://www.happcontrols.com/amusement/optical/962700xxtc.htm As far as Time Crisis guns, right now on eBay there are two auctions, one is for three guns and is currently at $188. The other is for one Time Crisis gun and is at $9.99 right now. If you keep a sharp eye you can find a good deal and then you'll be wanting an interface to connect it to. I'm just as interested to hear about the 24 inputs, as in can these be used for player buttons and work with MAME? |
| davidrfoley:
--- Quote from: wbassett on August 27, 2008, 08:27:45 pm ---The pdf I have lists that this board also has multiple inputs, I am assuming for buttons and sticks. Does that mean this can act like an interface for our purposes for cp controls? --- End quote --- Yes, I designed this board so that it would be the only board required to implement a gun game in an arcade cabinet. It has 24 general inputs and 8 general outputs, plus 2 force feedback outputs. --- Quote from: wbassett on August 27, 2008, 08:27:45 pm ---Next question, can you give any details on the sonic board? Are there currently guns in production for this technology and if so who makes them and any idea of the MSRP? --- End quote --- We have released the prototype PCB's for production and are working on the firmware and DSP code. We are hoping to wrap up the Sonic Gun System very soon. We already have some major manufaturers waiting for delivery. Happ has signed up for exclusive distribution rights for the coin-op market, so they will be the only manufacturer in the coin-op space. NanoTech will be releasing a consumer version of the Sonic Gun System including Guns and Rifles and plan on licensing it to other Consumer distributors. I have no idea on the MSRP, but the goal was to make it not that much more expsensive than the optical technology. The sensors costs a little bit more, and four are needed around the screen and one or two in the gun. There is also a DSP on the board which adds some costs. Otherwise, the electronics, and plastics are almost identical to the OptiGun solution. I designed the gun and rifle PCB's to use the same footprint as the current guns so minimal changes to the housings would be required for the Sonic Gun System. |
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