Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: talon006 on June 18, 2007, 12:24:00 am
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Oy
Im new, and im preparing to make my own big ol arcade machine. my plan is too have a P.C. in it running MAME. now here is my question, while going on a MAME rom downloading spree (dont worry, all legal) i rememberd all of the good shooter games, so i looked into buying a couple guns. i discovered the price to be quite resonable, but then i wondered if they would work with my setup.
So my question is, what do i need to make an arcade gun work, and HOW do they work. if anyone knows, this could save me like 100 bucks.
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Arcade guns from real arcade machines do not work with MAME and PCs. The known working guns are the Act Labs, LCD Top GUn and guncon's.
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wow that sucks, thanks though
edit: can anyone recommend any of these? im looking for a shotgun style, and 2 pistol style.
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Pistol style either act labs or Top Gun LCD. For shotguns you will probably have to mod one of these two into the shotgun shell.
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The new Buck Hunter Pro cabs use standard lightguns, but have a board to interface them to the PC that's inside.
I had hoped to get a look inside one before quitting my job, but alas it was not to be.
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The new Buck Hunter Pro cabs use standard lightguns,
By "standard" you mean standard arcade, right? (just checking.)
but have a board to interface them to the PC that's inside.
That's "all" that's needed for arcade lightguns to work on PCs. A lightgun interface, sort of like the KeyWiz, Ipac, or OptiPac. The problem is the lightgun interface would be more complicated. There was (is?) one out there (r0r3 (http://www.r0r3.com/productsusbopticalgun.htm)) but no one here tried it, as it's $150 and it doesn't look to be XP compatible. :(
I wonder if this is the same as the one in Buck Hunter, or if there's another one out there. :dunno
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I thought a j-pac would do them also?
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I thought a j-pac would do them also?
All a J-PAC does is interface standard JAMMA controls to your PC, and route video.
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well old bean i've used the G-CON 2 on HOTD2 and to say it was shocking wouldn't be a lie !
yeh it shoots and all and sort of works but with a 15" tv and a 20" TV it wasn't brilliant kept juddering etc nothing like the real thing.
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are you guys saying guns ripped out a proper arcade machine can be used in a mame machine with a adaptor ................ ecplain more im intrested !
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What is availalble is the parts from an arcade game that has guns and uses a PC so it is PC compatable. Cost was $150 and no one has tried one due to the cost. Also it was not XP compatable.
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I thought a j-pac would do them also?
All a J-PAC does is interface standard JAMMA controls to your PC, and route video.
O yeah I remeber now I have a mini-pac and video amp on a nanao and andy told me I needed a j-pac to split the h and V through the j-pac in porder for the light guns to work becuase the nanao was composite sync H&V both on one line and it would not work becuase the mini-pac does not have the onboard video chip that makes it possible.
I later found that all I needed to do was add a wire to H and connect it and the chassis will automaticly swap from composite H&V to a split single h and single v so I was definatly wrong on that one and remeber now.