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Guns & Mame - Some questions
Turnarcades:
Whatever you decide, you can tell by the mixed bag of answers it's not as clear-cut as other arcade control additions.
DJ_Izumi:
If someone was really into gun games and wanted Time Crisis games or other such games, I'd actually suggest, for simplicity and functionality sake, skip MAME and throw a PS2 into a cab on a CRT with component input. :P Which is my plan to build a light gun cab someday.
Turnarcades:
--- Quote from: DJ_Izumi on May 07, 2010, 08:50:29 pm ---If someone was really into gun games and wanted Time Crisis games or other such games, I'd actually suggest, for simplicity and functionality sake, skip MAME and throw a PS2 into a cab on a CRT with component input. :P Which is my plan to build a light gun cab someday.
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Did that with my last cabinet usung G-Cons and my old PS1, purely for Point Blank and Time Crisis. I'm glad to say that Andy's Aimtrak design is based on these and if the setup and functionality is ironed out I will be getting some of these:
DJ_Izumi:
My idea for a PS2 cab would be a standard stand up type with say a 25" Trinitron with component input installed. PS2 with an HDD and a pair of 8way with six button (Plus Start/Select) arrangements on the control panel. Then mount female ports wired into the PS2 and two female RCA jacks fed from the luma channel on the face, below the CP to allow you to easily plug in Guncon2s. So you'd have a cab that's primarily built for fighting games and the like but you can just plug in the guncons right into the front and fire up Time Crisis 2 or Vampire Night or Ninja Assault or something.
codeena:
Hey Retro_SA, I feel that there's a good number of quality Mame light gun titles that justify a light gun purchase. Some notables are Sharp Shooter, Police Trainer, Point Blank 1/2, Bang!, Egg Venture, Lethal Enforcers I/II, Crypt Killer, Area 51/Maximum Force, Wing Shooting Championship and Trophy Hunting : Bear and Moose. In addition, I have the Virtua Cop 1 & 2, House of the Dead I & II and Big Buck Hunter. I have two Act Labs guns and I think they perform pretty well, although one of them works better than the other. I'd like to have a recoil/force feedback option with the guns. I haven't tried any other PC compatible light gun.
Like DJ_Izumi said, the PS2 is the console to have for light gun games (Time Crisis 1-3, Vampire Night, Point Blank 1-3, Ninja Assault...). The Dreamcast also has some good titles. I used to have a single cab w/all 3 in a single cab for my shooting fix. Good luck with whatever you decide.
DJ, if you read this, I actually purchased a component cable with Guncon input, but it doesn't work. The best quality (clarity-wise) I was able to find with a Guncon input a s-video cable, which looks better than the composite cable. May I ask where you found your Guncon-compatible component cable?
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