Dimensions for a Light Gun arcade

[sdweim85]

Anyone have or know a place where I can get dimensions for a light gun arcade.  Like the style of Virtua Cop 2 http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&sa=X&tbo=d&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=1280&bih=670&tbm=isch&tbnid=mspeVOnSJicKaM:&imgrefurl=http://www.primetimeamusements.com/arcadegame.php%3Fid%3D111&docid=yoK5JNyiJ1KJVM&imgurl=http://www.primetimeamusements.com/pics1/virtua-cop2.jpg&w=293&h=500&ei=KCy2UPGKN-GR0QGAw4CIDA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=4&vpy=105&dur=257&hovh=293&hovw=172&tx=49&ty=149&sig=116476938271883212588&page=1&tbnh=144&tbnw=84&start=0&ndsp=23&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0,i:84

Or even just a place near NJ that sells Empty cabinets that would fit a 25-27 inch CRT TV.  I can't seem to find anything on google.

[BadMouth]

Google sketchup models:
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/cldetails?clid=4ac3dc12784cb20bd06e6be4f8954ac&start=480

[sdweim85]

omg how did I not ever find this.  Amazing! THANKS

[yotsuya]

My goal in the next six months is to build a gun cab based on either Area 51 (I've sketched it out in Illustrator) or The House of the Dead (probably the one I am going to build).

[sdweim85]

I'm just going to build one and put a Ps2 and Dreamcast in it with my 27 inch CRT TV.  Or buy a empty gun cabinet and do the same.

[BadMouth]

I'm just going to build one and put a Ps2 and Dreamcast in it with my 27 inch CRT TV.  Or buy a empty gun cabinet and do the same.

That's probably the best way to do it.
There are a ton of great light gun games for PS2 and nothing currently available compares to true light guns on a CRT IMO.

[yotsuya]

That's a good idea.

I have the software part worked out. I'll be running the gun games in MAME, as well as all the American Laser Games laserdisk games (Mad Dog McCree, Crime Patrol, etc) and PC versions of The House of the Dead 1, 2, and 3. I just need time to build the cabinet.

[sdweim85]

I tried the MAME setup with the light gun but it was too annoying to get everything to work properly.  Not to mention, at least for me Time crisis 1 and 2 didn't work right.  Even with the Ps1 and Ps2 emulators.  And House of the Dead 2 on PC had to use the keyboard to setup the menus from what I recall.  I think Hotd 1 worked the best.  Although I can't remember if I used a mame, saturn, or PC emu for that.

Lethal enforcers did work perfectly though haha.


With the Ps2 and dreamcast everything will work great, and I'll open up the guncon2's and solder a wire on the PCB down to a arcade time crisis pedal so its legit.  Then in the future I might build a identical cab and put another ps2/Time crisis 2 in it for link play since the console version supports that.