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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: vibez on February 25, 2005, 07:51:52 am
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HI,
I have a hantarax standard 15hz arcade monitor using a j-pac & aracdevga 9200 card running xp.
Will the tv lightguns from act-labs work with this setup?
Here is the link to the guns http://www.act-labs.com/scripts/proddetails.asp?pid=132
EDIT: damn, they are discontinued. Is there another source apart from ebay?
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nope... and ebay auctions are going for 150+ in some cases. They really aren't worth that much. They are the best out there right now... but not nearly perfect. I would wait and hope for a better solution (thats less then 150 bucks)
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shame. Guess I'll just have to wait it out
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shame. Guess I'll just have to wait it out
Some of us have been waiting longer than others......
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This is so strange. I have been reading that these are discontinued but when I went to the website and ordered them I got them in less than 1 week wait time. I don't know. Maybe I was lucky but I did get 2 light guns (TV version) in less than a week.
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The TV version is still available.
The VGA version is discontinued!
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They are listing the tv version as discontinued also.
Later,
dabone
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hmmm...no they're not. They're listing the tv version as available and the PC version as discontinued...
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when the tv version is out of stock its discontinued...
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Just click on add to cart and see what the TV version says then,...
Sad day.
I've got 2 of the VGA versions, and they see quite a bit of use, I'll probally need replacements within a year but still no options for me yet.
I like the idea of the camera gun, but I'm concerned how to intergrate it into a cab without the camera sticking out like a sore thumb.
Later,
dabone
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i guess the tv version wont work with 15hz arcade monitors
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Just click on add to cart and see what the TV version says then,...
Sad day.
I've got 2 of the VGA versions, and they see quite a bit of use, I'll probally need replacements within a year but still no options for me yet.
I like the idea of the camera gun, but I'm concerned how to intergrate it into a cab without the camera sticking out like a sore thumb.
Later,
dabone
If you had smoked glass, you might be able to hide it in an upper corner without anyone noticing. (This is assuming that the infrared will pass throught the tint)
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erm, wont the interface matter? my mame cab only has a vga input [aracade vga)
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If you're going to spend $150, you might as well get this:
http://www.r0r3.com/productsusbopticalgun.htm
Anyone used it?
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That ror3 interface keeps coming up, but nobody ever takes the plunge. I think Kev tried to get one for review, but no dice there.
How 'bout it, 1UP, wanna be our guniea pig?
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I thought in one of these posts about the ror3 someone contacted the supplier and they are made to work with the PS2 and have no current driver for the PC, but should be technicaly easy to write one. But I may be completely off, so in that case, you can ignore me :)
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R0R3 USB Optical Light Gun Interface Board (ULGI)
$159.95
R0R3 Introduces the industries first USB Optical Gun Interface Board for the PCArcade and Location Based Gaming and Amusement Market. This is another first, a fully HID USB compliant optical gun interface board that will allow a first person shooter to be built around a WINDOWS or LINUX USB compliant PC. The optical gun board will work in conjunction with the UGCI and will allow a complete Optical Gun system supporting two optical gun inputs can be built for less than a few hundred dollars.
Key Benefits
SVGA Compatible from 640x480@ 60 Hz to 1024x768 @ 100Hz
Patented ScreenFlash Technology, no blank screen rendering required
Resolves less than one Pixel at 640x480
Supports up to two guns
Pin for Pin Compatible with the Happ Optical Gun Product Line
Uses high resolution ASIC technology for low cost/component count
WINDOWS 98/ME Compatible
Sounds to ME like it works in Windows...
BTW, I will probably be getting one, but I'm waiting to hear back from them whether "supports up to two guns" means that I have to buy two boards...
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I think the problem was that the guns' windows driver does not emulate a mouse and therefore there needs to be a MAME code modification to read the input...IIRC from earlier threads on this topic.
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I did remember correctly, check this thread: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,24229.msg197899.html#msg197899
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back to my original question. using an aracde monitor & aracdevga card, do I want the tv or the crt version?
Nevermind, found the answer on the website's faq
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Sounds to ME like it works in Windows...
BTW, I will probably be getting one, but I'm waiting to hear back from them whether "supports up to two guns" means that I have to buy two boards...
Do post if you hear back from them about the 2 player issue. I get the impression its 1 board, but you never can trust marketing speak!
No one seems to have tried these.
"Resolves less than one Pixel at 640x480" sounds like a bold claim to me. Of course "resolving" to 1 pixel can be done in a driver - it may not mean that it is a direct reflection on accuracy...