https://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=271012
^Notes on a multijamma lightgun setup using a 6 way jamma switch
That seems to be for using real arcade PCB's, along with a JAMMA wire harness, correct? (or did I miss something there? I searched through all 7 pages for "USB" and "Guncon" and didn't find any hits).
I'm using a Windows PC, running GroovyMAME 0.200, on a 15khz CRT. The only 'real' non-IR light guns I know of which use a USB port are the Guncon 2's which I could –maybe– use on my Windows PC for light gun games on a CRT...so that's the kinda thing I'm looking for, although buying a different USB light gun which will work in this regard (again, NO IR) I would also be totally up for.
See the USB2Gun threads in the first post.
That's for use with an arcade monitor.
Sony Trinitrons and other high end CRT TVs sometimes had built in processing such as line doublers, which can't be turned off and prevent true light guns from working with them.
If using a CRT Television, you're actually better off using a lower end one.
I'm using Sony PVM and BVM professional CRT monitors (some multiformat even which do 480P+ as well as normal 240p/480i), which have zero processing done to them, and usually use RGBS (or merged sync RGBHV) connections.
For the USB2Gun, would you mind walking me through this? It's as though I'm reading greek here...
The first post seems to be about an America's Army arcade cab, which has an LCD screen installed, which means these guns are IR ONLY? (which I don't want...).
The second post from 2011 is about the USB2Gun board, the third post is from 2014 about the USB2Gun as well, and mentions how it's not being produced anymore and they're trying to get a group order going (which it doesn't say if that order ever went through, and if these will ever be available again - no USB2Gun's up on eBay that I see)? ...but what confuses me here is they specifically mention the USB2Gun is for an optical light gun (which is GREAT) which connects to a traditional "Happ" light gun (from $75 to $105 on eBay it looks like). Mentions of having to re-calibrate the gun for every GroovyMAME light gun game if it has a different resolution?
...so i still can't tell if this would work for me. The hardware doesn't seem to be available anymore? (again, totally new to all this and still learning!).