The other gun is completely dead though. It fired the recoil twice when I intially installed it and pulled the trigger, but after that it never responded again (no laser no recoil nothing). Guess I'm going to have to return that one *sigh*.
The same thing has happened to me. The first gun I tried to install was working and then at some point it just stopped working. I tried different USB ports, reboots, system restore, uninstall/reinstalling drivers...the first gun is dead. I'm awaiting a reply on my PlayAsia exchange request.
The results were different with the second gun. I learned soon enough that I was standing too close to my monitor in testing. Initially, I found myself not being able to get passed the gun calibration phase involving the "six targets". It says that you should place the gun "about an inch off the screen"...however, if you do that, it will exit to Windows as soon as you pull the trigger. That was frustrating for sure. The minimum distance between the gun and the monitor (for me) is about 4 feet.
I'm running these on my 27" CO2 SlikStik Arcade Cabinet. I used some heavy duty velcro to secure the LED bars to the formica bordering the bezel. The recoil is better than nothing, but its not what I would consider great. The laser is a nice touch, but it doesn't tell you anything you don't already know when the gun has been configured properly in a game you already expect it to be compatible with...ie HOTD2. If anything, the laser simply helps confirm how badly off some shots are in games that I wish I could yet play (but won't)...ie Time Crisis.
This gun is more accurate than the ActLabs gun in the games in which the ActLabs gun was usable. However, I'm not finding any new games working any better than before.
Unlike what was posted earlier in this thread...I found that MAME32 worked fine with the Acorn's WINGUN drivers. I initially started testing using MAME32Plus, but then went back to confirm issues with MAME32 and the gun seemed to track and operate just as well as in the MAME32Plus version.
In Mame: Area51, Maximum Force, VS. Duck Hunt, VS. Hogan's Alley, Zero Point, Point Blank, Police Trainer, Egg Venture, Sharpshooter, and Operation Wolf all seem to work fine. I had very little issues in testing those (with the one gun).
Games like Chiller, Clay Pigeon, Crossbow, and Crackshot seemed to be lined up nice whenever you shoot at something in the center of the screen. Unfortunately, most targets come immediately from the sides of the screen and the crosshair is visible 3-4 inches away after pulling the trigger. Something similar occured during Tickee Tackets. The shot was 3 inches above my laser sight whenever I aimed at something towards the edges (or even 6 inches from center). Sure, you could adjust the laser to line up with the crosshairs, but as soon as you aim in the middle for something, your shot is off again. Point is, the laser sight and the shot are only lined up when you aim at something in the center of the screen.
However, games like Time Crisis, Zombie Raid, and Carnevil are still unplayable for me. My 3.06Ghz Alienware still can't keep up with the emulation power required to run these games to my satisfaction. Besides that, the shots are WAY off.
Golly Ghost and Lethal Enforcers also had calibration issues. Shoot in the center of the screen and watch your shot land 10 inches to the upper left.
Next, I tried some Chicken Hunt. After scoring over 1400 points using just a mouse, I thought the LCD gun would make things better. So far, I just don't think its accurate enough to make a difference. I haven't scored over 700 using the LCD gun. I'm trying to use the D-pad to scroll (with Auto Fire on), but its too slow IMO. From 4 feet away, you have to be balls-on to hit those 25pt chickens in the distance and that's tough. Chicken Hunt is made even more difficult by it not including a method of configuring buttons. You can configure buttons within WINGUN, but for the life of me, I can't figure out how to reload when using the LCD gun in Chicken Hunt.
HOTD2 had practically no issues (again, just one gun though). Everything was very tight. HOTD3 (the PC EU version) just sucks. It runs incredibly slow (even on my system) and I gave up on that one quickly.
I tried Virtua Cop 2 and (again) I can't find a way to configure the gun calibration in the game. The shots are WAY off.
I uninstalled all of my American Laser Games about a month ago because they stopped functioning after receiving the typical Windows update and I've never figured out what the problem is yet. All the scenes loop into one another (beyond my control once I begin a game) and no matter what I shoot it results in a death scene. This is also happening during my DL, DL2, and SPA games...so I didn't test these.
I guess what I have so far is a gun that looks more like a real gun with a fancy laser sight and a gimmicky recoil function. So far, I've found it only useful in the same handful of games that the ActLabs gun already performed well in. While I will comment in saying that it is
more accurate when utilized during Area51, MF, and HOTD2. For one thing, I can now shoot off the screen to reload without having to coax some sort of button workaround out of MAME to do it.
I still have to figure out if I really have atleast one dead LCD gun on my hands or if it's something beyond my technical understanding. It won't fire, recoil, or display a laser. It did at first, but like one of the previous posters...it's dead.
All I can say is...thank god for this thread. There are no instructions packaged with the gun and messing with the Gun2Mouse drivers was a butt-load waste of time. Neither version would go so far as to recognize an LCD gun attached to my system.
I don't know if I could justify buying 2 of these...just yet. It's cooler looking and handles better than the ActLabs gun, but I had far less issues installing the ActLabs gun over the LCD gun (for sure). Something tells me, I'm not done yet.