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Its Here: Ultimarc AimTrak Light Gun Module
mlalena:
I keep seeing Andy posts and think that it might be the product announcement for the AimTrak integrated into a gun shell. Ah well.
Paul Olson:
Well, I have one of the aimtraks installed in a guncon now. It took me quite a few tries to get it to calibrate, but now that it is, I am pretty happy with the accuracy. I was able to hit whatever I aimed at in Area 51, until my arms started burning, then I missed a lot. :) It has been a while since I have shot for that long. I was playing without crosshairs, and the offscreen reload worked great.
When not in a game, I was watching the mouse cursor as I aimed. The cursor lags behind a little bit, but it does catch up and becomes accurate. I have the tilt/z connection set to continuous, so that may slow it down some.
I have used act labs guns and the LCD Topgun, and I can definitely say that the aimtrak beats both of them by a wide margin so far. I still have a lot of testing to do; I am testing it on my desktop. so I still need to get it working in the cab.
I soldered one of the buttons to P1, and it is not working, so I need to figure that out. The outer button on the gun is attached to aux, and it works fine.
I used guncon 1s for these, and I really like them. They look great and the aimtrak fits in there easily with only a little bit of trimming inside the barrel. Andy said that his will be similar to the guncons, so I think this will end up being a really nice light gun solution for our cabs.
I watched some of the videos in the various threads, and properly calibrated, it is accurate over the entire screen, except for the lag I mentioned.
Edit: I have been playing quite a bit tonight and having a lot of fun. I am ready to move the led bar to the cab so I can get everything set up in its new home. I have a suggestion for those who have not ordered the aimtraks yet: Buy 2 of the full kits. I have been playing sitting at my desk, and I would like to keep that option, so I really wish I would have bought the second led pcb. Shipping is too expensive to get one now, but I wish I would have thought of it before I ordered.
rbarr110:
--- Quote from: Paul Olson on March 05, 2010, 09:23:51 pm ---Well, I have one of the aimtraks installed in a guncon now. It took me quite a few tries to get it to calibrate, but now that it is, I am pretty happy with the accuracy. I was able to hit whatever I aimed at in Area 51, until my arms started burning, then I missed a lot. :) It has been a while since I have shot for that long. I was playing without crosshairs, and the offscreen reload worked great.
When not in a game, I was watching the mouse cursor as I aimed. The cursor lags behind a little bit, but it does catch up and becomes accurate. I have the tilt/z connection set to continuous, so that may slow it down some.
I have used act labs guns and the LCD Topgun, and I can definitely say that the aimtrak beats both of them by a wide margin so far. I still have a lot of testing to do; I am testing it on my desktop. so I still need to get it working in the cab.
I soldered one of the buttons to P1, and it is not working, so I need to figure that out. The outer button on the gun is attached to aux, and it works fine.
I used guncon 1s for these, and I really like them. They look great and the aimtrak fits in there easily with only a little bit of trimming inside the barrel. Andy said that his will be similar to the guncons, so I think this will end up being a really nice light gun solution for our cabs.
I watched some of the videos in the various threads, and properly calibrated, it is accurate over the entire screen, except for the lag I mentioned.
Edit: I have been playing quite a bit tonight and having a lot of fun. I am ready to move the led bar to the cab so I can get everything set up in its new home. I have a suggestion for those who have not ordered the aimtraks yet: Buy 2 of the full kits. I have been playing sitting at my desk, and I would like to keep that option, so I really wish I would have bought the second led pcb. Shipping is too expensive to get one now, but I wish I would have thought of it before I ordered.
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OMG - A review based on someone who has the product in hand and tested. What has this thread come to.
No, really, thanks for an opinion and review based upon hands on experience. I will be buying my two very soon.
Dannymh:
Andy,
I was wondering when you have the full units ready, will each one be tested to make sure they put inside the shell properly and lined up etc, or is there still going to be some element of DIY to them?
Dan
yo1dog:
I have to say, so far my experience has been very frustrating. It does not seem to be accurate at all after spending hours of moving around the sensors and recalibrating. I finally was able to upgrade the firmware to 3.1 and now the gun only moves up and down on the far left of the screen. Every once in a while it will randomly bounce around the screen.
Also, the gun keeps showing up as a joystick in mame...
Some help please?
(I am using W7 64)
Edit:
I did something wrong somehow when I upgraded the firmware. I did it again and now the gun works great :)
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