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EnglandFC:
I just got one of these guns and it's working fine in House of the Dead 2 (PC), but in Mame, it seems to shoot waaaay off (low and to the right).  I'm running at 640x480@60Hz as recommended.

Anyone else had a problem with these or knows how to sort it out.  I did a search but didn't find anything previously on the forums.

TIA

hulkster:
well ive seen several posts on this, and the general consensus about this gun is.....it sucks.  im sure it works great for pc games, but for mame, you need a gun that properly emulates the mouse movements, and apparently this gun looks cool, but thats about it.  most people go with the act labs gun although it looks like something marvin the martian would use.  there are several reviews for this gun dude.  what did you search for?  do a search for "light guns" or something like that.

EnglandFC:

--- Quote from: hulkster081 on April 01, 2004, 09:55:00 am ---well ive seen several posts on this, and the general consensus about this gun is.....it sucks.  im sure it works great for pc games, but for mame, you need a gun that properly emulates the mouse movements, and apparently this gun looks cool, but thats about it.  most people go with the act labs gun although it looks like something marvin the martian would use.  there are several reviews for this gun dude.  what did you search for?  do a search for "light guns" or something like that.

--- End quote ---

Yeh, I knew about the Act-Labs one, but I was trying to save some money (yep...you get what you pay for).  I just had it working though...I had to turn off mouse and turn on lightgun, but it's still highly inaccurate and only works at all some of the time.  It seemed like I needed to delete my cfg for the game every now and then but it's actually just stopped working and I can't seem to get back to where I was when it was working.  Oh well...think I'll be investing in another one soon!

hulkster:
well i would only get the virutal gun if you are going to be playing a lot of pc shooters....but when you think about it, there arent that many!  only other thing i would suggest would be to hack a console with shooters on it, and use its lightgun.  its up to you though.  just depends on what you really want.  me personally, im going to wait till act labs comes out with a better looking gun.  im sure they will, because i know a lot of people complain about its appearance.  ill wait a year or so, and they will come out with a good looking one that will work on tvs.  

EnglandFC:
I don't like the look of it either.  If I get one, I'm going to rip out the innards and put them in a modified airsoft gun.  Btw...I thought that they already had one that had both VGA and S-Video out?

As for console guns...do you know if it's possible to get a PSX/PS2 gun and use it through a PSX->USB convertor?  I've got an old G-Con, which was pretty good for Time Crisis.

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