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Title: Could you use this in a mame cab?
Post by: Shieldwolf on October 13, 2003, 12:15:06 am: Is this pointless? God I would love to have these for my cabinet.

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Title: Re:Could you use this in a mame cab?
Post by: hooded_paladin on October 13, 2003, 12:20:15 am: not unless you want to invent the adapters to do it. They just don't hook up to PC's.

Best you could do is transfer an Act-Labs into a more authentic shell, maybe add a recoil solenoid, and maybe upon maybe add my old, unpopular idea for arcade-perfect autofiring.

That would be the arcade perfect gun.

But, arcade guns definitely do not hook up to PC's.
Title: Re:Could you use this in a mame cab?
Post by: Lilwolf on October 13, 2003, 09:02:11 am: There are a few problems you have.

1) physical adapter. Where to plug it in. There are a few options for this, but I don't know/think that the parrallel would do.

2) Software drivers. This is a hard one. Don't expect it to be easy at all. And I don't believe there are any tools to help out there.

3) Won't work with a VGA monitor. They are sync'd to the horizontal (or vertical) fequency... the one that doesn't change when you change your refresh. IE, you will get this to work on an arcade monitor only.
Title: Re:Could you use this in a mame cab?
Post by: Shieldwolf on October 13, 2003, 01:24:53 pm: I have the monitor and I agree about the no adapter for a pc. I was wondering if I could even jama it? I have one for a playstation 1 that recoils and everything, but again I can't use it.
Title: Re:Could you use this in a mame cab?
Post by: SirPoonga on October 13, 2003, 06:57:33 pm: hmmm, maybe that acceccory port on the Act Labs gun is for a recoil??? I was playing time crisis last week. Very fun!
Title: Re:Could you use this in a mame cab?
Post by: hulkster on October 13, 2003, 07:34:03 pm: i dont understand why act-labs doesnt take their gun and put the time crisis chasis on it instead of the martian gun! well offer the martian gun and the time crisis-esque gun, that would make so much better business sense. i know for a fact that i would buy at least one today if they had that design.
Title: Re:Could you use this in a mame cab?
Post by: Shieldwolf on October 13, 2003, 08:01:47 pm: I thought that WAS what the port was for some sort of vibration adapter. As for making a TC style gun, I totally agree.