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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: WINPINPH1 on February 21, 2009, 01:59:35 am
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im going to build a cabinet pc using p4 unit and housed of dead 2 games and usb light gun.
how am i going to wire the cabinet i would like to have a game over system. three lives only.
where can i get the connection for insert coin function.
the usb game light i will purchase is this
http://www.cdrking.com/local/products/index.php?action=submnu&temp=2&typeno=2519971-218733-615563635-8624044&prod=for%20PC&prodcode=7288135-939998-174500905-2133284
suggestions and help need very much.
tia.
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Does that piece of junk gun actually say $480? I must be seeing something wrong.
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nope in $ that is 11$
you think i could is that usb light gun how am i going to wire?
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That isn't a light gun.
It is a mouse that is shaped like a gun.
It slides on a mousepad, just like a mouse.
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Does that piece of junk gun actually say $480? I must be seeing something wrong.
That's 480 Philippines Pesos.
It's a lot less in US dollars.
Your description is harsh. You mightn't like the product, but that doesn't make it junk.
That isn't a light gun.
It is a mouse that is shaped like a gun.
It slides on a mousepad, just like a mouse.
Yes.
It reminds me of the guns used for Operation Wolf and its sequel, Operation Thunderbolt. Although I think the guns in those games, were actually "analogue joysticks", as opposed to this product, which is a gun-shaped mouse.
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It reminds me of the guns used for Operation Wolf and its sequel, Operation Thunderbolt. Although I think the guns in those games, were actually "analogue joysticks", as opposed to this product, which is a gun-shaped mouse.
The positional guns used in those games were connected to a joystick, and could actually be aimed at the screen.
As you pulled back on the gun, the sights went higher, and the gun aimed higher in the game.
As you twisted the stick the sights went left and right, and the gun went left and right in the game.
This one is literally a gun shaped mouse.
You can twist it and turn it all you want, and it won't move the point of aim in the game, unless you slide it across a surface like a mouse.
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This one is literally a gun shaped mouse.
You can twist it and turn it all you want, and it won't move the point of aim in the game, unless you slide it across a surface like a mouse.
I thought there must be an embedded trackball in the gun base, so that when you rotate the gun, it moves the trackball, and therefore functions as a mouse.
But if it's as you say ... just a regular mouse with a useless toy gun sitting on top of it ... then Ginsu Victim's spot on, it truly is a piece of junk.
:o
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Your description is harsh. You mightn't like the product, but that doesn't make it junk.
I called it junk because it wasn't even a real gun.....as you've come to realize.
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thanks sir for your response. where do you think i could buy nice light gun?
i will also try this one
"The positional guns used in those games were connected to a joystick, and could actually be aimed at the screen.
As you pulled back on the gun, the sights went higher, and the gun aimed higher in the game.
As you twisted the stick the sights went left and right, and the gun went left and right in the game."
Please give me some inputs how to do this.
i think i could do that one.
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Please give me some inputs how to do this.
First you have to buy one of the guns.
That style gun was on Operation Wolf, Operation Thunderbolt, Terminator 2, and alot of other games like that.
You can recognize them because the gun is mounted to the control panel with a stick coming out the bottom, usually to a large rectangular base.
The optical light guns are usually tethered to the cabinet by a long cable.
Once you have the gun, you will need to interface it to the computer.
That can be done with the A-pac from Ultimarc, the AKI from DaveB, or by doing a controller hack like you would for a Star Wars Yoke.
The goal is to convert the analog data from the gun base to something usable by the computer.
The gun is literally a big analog joystick.
It has two axes, which correspond to horizontal and vertical aiming adjustment in the game.
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i will go for keyboard hack.
is it possible to buy big toy gun?
but how is the mechanical work to be done?
in our normal joystick there are only up,down, left ,right option how am i going to do that if i point the gun it will move up. then if i point down the joytick will move down.
if i point left the joystic will move left if i point right the joystick will move right.
i guess the mechanical part is a bit hard. :dizzy: