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Title: Operation Wolf Gun
Post by: NickS on November 15, 2003, 03:28:06 pm

Has anyone sucessfully hacked an Operation Gun to use with Mame ?.

Title: Re:Operation Wolf Gun
Post by: APFelon on November 15, 2003, 05:46:20 pm

Do you plan to use a pot gun with MAME? Interesting. Limiting, but interesting. I suppose an Optimarc would be nice.

APf

Title: Re:Operation Wolf Gun
Post by: codeena on November 15, 2003, 07:08:11 pm

Howdy, isn't the Op Wolf gun an optic gun that doesn't use potentiometers?  I think I had one of these, or an Op Thunder one before and could not do anything with it.

Title: Re:Operation Wolf Gun
Post by: Spaced Invader on November 15, 2003, 07:38:22 pm

According to the KLOVG the gun has "photo-light sensor". Sounds optic to me, but they aren't always right. I do know the Terminator guns used pots. Just my $0.02.  :)

Title: Re:Operation Wolf Gun
Post by: codeena on November 15, 2003, 09:17:06 pm

Howdy again,

Now I remember that the one I bought was actually a Mechanized Attack, not an Op Wolf or Thunder one--or at least that's what it was listed for on Ebay.  

Title: Re:Operation Wolf Gun
Post by: APFelon on November 16, 2003, 04:25:35 am

Hmm... I remember having the one on my location open many o' times... There are pots inside the "base" if I remember right.

APf

Title: Re:Operation Wolf Gun
Post by: Spaced Invader on November 16, 2003, 07:42:30 am

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Hmm... I remember having the one on my location open many o' times... There are pots inside the "base" if I remember right.

APf

Wouldn't be the first time the "Killer List" was wrong.

Title: Re:Operation Wolf Gun
Post by: menace on November 16, 2003, 07:53:23 am

I guess to answer the original post-- not yet .  It seems to me that it would be a straight forward hack similar to the t2 guns (i saw this game at an auction and there were no optics on the gun)  Let us know how you make out!  :)

Title: Re:Operation Wolf Gun
Post by: Lilwolf on November 16, 2003, 08:45:28 am

One of these DEFINATELY was a light gun attached..  I've heard of people complaining because they bought it to hack it... and not much you can do.

Search on the board and you might find the old posts on it.

Title: Re:Operation Wolf Gun
Post by: GearHead on November 16, 2003, 06:18:21 pm

Just pulled out my Operation Wolf gun.
It's an optical gun.

When I get the time I'm going to try and convert it into a "positional gun" using parts from a mouse or a trackball optic card.  Looks like it may take some gearing to get it to track right.

Of course if someone comes up with a hack to get the optical stuff to work it'll same me a lot of time....

Anyone???



GearHead

Title: Re:Operation Wolf Gun
Post by: eightbit on November 16, 2003, 06:50:36 pm

Wouldn't the problem be in calibrating it?

Title: Re:Operation Wolf Gun
Post by: Minwah on November 16, 2003, 07:42:17 pm

Quote from: eightbit on November 16, 2003, 06:50:36 pm

Wouldn't the problem be in calibrating it?

I would have thought so.  The guy who made the awesome looking yoke used optics (rather than pots), and I believe he found problems with that - it won't stay calibrated.  Same principal I guess, so pots would probably be better...