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TeutonicDarkness:

--- Quote from: davidrfoley on February 28, 2009, 12:54:34 pm ---Sonic Gun will work with any game that works with a lightgun, mouse or joystick. The SGS system can feed the PC with either Joystick or Mouse event info, which you can choose in setup.

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That's good news. :)

Maybe if its ready by next year income tax time I'll buy a few of these!

Siris:
David,

What is the latest news on the OptiGun?

mayhem:
got to admit here guys. the best option and better than a top gun is the Wii controller. Its work 100% much better than a LCD top gun. I have 2 x Top gun ver 1's and 2 x top Gun version 2's. Now Both the first versions are no longer working correctly and one of the version 2's is on its way out all ready. I blame the kids but lets be honest here kids do love to play and thats what we were at one time.

The Wii remote with blue tooth connection and mouse driver work perfectly and don't need two massive LED light sticks on the screen at all only one single small wireless version does the job.. The only problem with the Wii controllers is the loading of the driver and its a pain in the ass in a cab having to manually load the driver for each game but if this was automated via a macro (which i have been working on for my c-macc's 2). Now yes its not perfect but the gains are much better than most options out there atm.

pro of the wii are

1) They do not brake easy
2) Cheap
3) IT WORKS and you dont need to be a genius to get them to work.
4) Wireless
5) i bet you can re house them
6) works on LCD / CRT / arcade mon

cons are

1) No kick back
2) Needs work on the driver and a macro setting up
3) Blue tooth only
4) does not look like a gun !!!!
5) HOTD 2 just isn't as fun than with a real light gun

Franco B:
I still need to have a play with wii controllers with mame. The setup is putting me off but i'm going to give it a go.

As regards to the wii remote not looking like a gun, there are quite a few different remote 'housings' that make the controller look and feel more like a gun:

Just search ebay for 'Wii Guns'. I bought a pair of the bottom ones for about £6 delivered.

AndyWarne:
There are two issues which mean that the Wii Controller is not an ideal solution as a gun, although seems adequate for many people.
The first is that it was never designed to be a calibrated device, as the Wii pointer just roughly moves in the direction of the controller, it does not follow the controller exactly.
This can be partly overcome by drivers which have some kind of calibration built in, so it can be calibrated in such as way that when the gun is lined up, the pointer follows it.

Then this leads onto the second problem. In the Wii setup, the pointer moves further than the relative movement of the controller. This means its easy to ensure the sensor in the remote can always see the IR LEDs, beacuse the movement of the controller is quite small, the LEDs are always in the field of view.

In a calibrated setup, the controller needs to move further, in fact it needs to be physically pointed at the corners of the screen, at worst case. This means it would lose sight of the LEDs, unless the controller is located a good distance away from the screen. Most people prefer the gun to be quite close to the screen, so this makes this problem even more difficult to overcome.

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