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smalltownguy:
The Act labs guns, like other CRT based guns, won't actively track the current pointing position. When you depress the trigger on one of those guns, the gun analyzes the current gun position 'while redrawing the screen' and locks in at that point. There are L.E.D. based systems (like the Top Gun) that get around this.

We all wait with baited breath for a Wii crack....

Luigi:
Hi.

As far as I know, T2 guns don't work optical but with pots for X- and Y-axis. If you move the gun the pots increase/decrease and so the position you're aiming at is given to the pcb (OMG, I hope that sentence makes sence...sorry for my english ::) ) That is the reason why the guns are attached to the control panel.

I don't think that it is possible to emulate that with optical arcade guns.

If you use EMS Topguns with Gun2mouse....that might work because there are sensors left and right of the screen (LCD and plasma, too) that allow to get the position all the time without a white flash. I'm still waiting for some time to install the gun to my notebook so I can test it with my plasma :)

Maybe someone else here knows if it works that the crosshair moves with the Topgun.....

Todd H:

--- Quote from: smalltownguy on February 27, 2009, 07:05:59 am ---
We all wait with baited breath for a Wii crack....

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Supposedly it's coming. The people behind the Pinnacle Game Profiler are promising full support for the Wii-mote in the future.

http://www.pinnaclegameprofiler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2269&start=105&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=

davidrfoley:
No, it won't track like Terminator. Terminator didn't use a light gun. It used a joystick to play the game, it was just disguised as a light gun. The terminator gun was nothing more than a large joystick with a plastic housing.

As I stated before, Light Guns can only track like that if you have a very bright (ie white) screen. If you put up a white background, a light gun can track the movement of the gun, however, when you hit a black area on the screen, it will not be able to track.

TeutonicDarkness:

--- Quote from: davidrfoley on February 27, 2009, 10:47:28 am ---No, it won't track like Terminator. Terminator didn't use a light gun. It used a joystick to play the game, it was just disguised as a light gun. The terminator gun was nothing more than a large joystick with a plastic housing.
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I think most of use here are quite aware of how The original
Terminator gun worked...

I really wouldn't care if it was a joystick, keyboard, mouse,
whatever, as long as it looked like a gun acted liked a gun;
and worked with more than just 2 games.

I think what we would like to see however is a solution
that would work with all games regardless!

--- Quote ---As I stated before, Light Guns can only track like that if you have a very bright (ie white) screen. If you put up a white background, a light gun can track the movement of the gun, however, when you hit a black area on the screen, it will not be able to track.

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You know I heard a lot of people complain about the flashing
of the ACT Lab Guns.. I really don't mind it at all If I can find
a solution that will track and support more than 2 games.. ;)

A Well I had hoped...

guess I'll just hold off for something else :(

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