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chrisnack:
I can't find anything that isn't 3 years old...
I can't find the wingun drivers anywhere.

I played with a LCD top gun and don't like the bars, or how far away you have ot be for it work, pain to configure in MAME.

Picked up a couple Namco guns for cheap, but can't quite configure then or find any help anywhere.

Nor can i find out exactly what the "rolling x" issue is.

Any help/info would be greatly appreciated!

-Chris
daywane:
I am sitting in the muck with you.
I can not find crap eather
bunch of HOOPLA ... now nothing
Bleagh:
I have the wingun drivers.  PM me and I'll send them to you.

I was recently messing around with my lcd topgun again after a couple years.  I played some house of the dead: overkill on Wii and was disgusted with it so I had to play hotd 1 and 2.  I still had the drivers and crap saved, so give me a pm and I'll send em over.

EDIT:

I uploaded them to my ftp here

http://www.bleagh.com/guncon2/

Try not to eat up all my bandwidth.
chrisnack:
Awesome, thank you very much.

Eat up your bandwith, they are tiny files :)

Maybe i'll have to throw them up on my blog so people can find them as well.  The Guncon2 can be found at http://xoomer.virgilio.it/guncon2/ but it's obvious that site hasn't been touched in years. 

Just curious why people just dropped off the map with these things.  I was looking at the Act Labs, but $100/gun is hard to swallow.  And my buddy let me borrow his LCD topgun II, but i'm just not a huge fan of it thus far, i REALLY don't like the light bars and that distance you need to stand away.

I'll give the wingun drivers a shot and see if that works for me. 

Thanks again.
chrisnack:
Some info from the Wingun thread, someone found the archived site. Awesome!


--- Quote ---Quote from: MacGyver on Today at 08:08:41 AM
I was thinking of getting some of these for an upcoming project, I got to the end, and saw that it was gone, so I checked the Wayback archive and grabbed the driver, I have attached it below.  I hope this helps.  A question, are these the best guns for MAME, or are the ACT labs the best?  I like the possibility of switching from a TV based display to a real arcade monitor, and not needing to replace both guns.

Here is the last page archived:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080213100641/http://www.guncon2driver.com/

I always try the archive first, sometimes .exe and .zips get archived too, that was the case here. I just zipped the .exe, but if you are weary of .exes like I am, you can open it with 7-zip. Smiley


--- End quote ---
Awesome, thank you for that.

From what i have found out thus far, I have tested both Smog's Guncon2 driver and the Wingun Driver.

With the official Namco guns:

Smog's Guncon2 driver:
Doesn't track, has rolling x issue
Buttons work in windows, doesn't track well at all (rolling-x issue)
Buttons work in Mame .129


Wingun:
Tracks perfect
Works great in windows, buttons work and register
Buttons don't work in Mame .129

From what i've read the buttons will work in Mame .104, but you can't use 2 lightguns, since it won't track them seperately, so gun2 will shoot where gun1 is sometimes and gun1 where gun2 is.

I ordered some generic Yobo Guncon2 for $22 shipped that i'm hoping to test out this week.

I was considering the ACt Labs, but at $100/pop that just sucks.

I've used the LCD topgun that everyone raves about, but i personally don't like it.  YOu have to stand 2-3 times the distance between the infared bars, so on my 27" tv in my arcade, i had to stand about 4-6 ft back before the guns would work, but the light bars are just ugly, there is no way around that.

I like the TV based lightguns because no lightbar and they work great.  Just a matter of getting the right driver and mame version.
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