Act labs gun

[jub3i]

I bought an old arcade cabinet with a 25" monitor in it.  I was looking at the Act labs guns and was wondering if I could use those on an arcade monitor.  They sell a TV version that can hook up to s-video or composite.  My guess is that I won't be able to hook it up.  What options are there for guns with an arcade monitor?

[menace]

for an arcade monitor its the pc-usb version with an arcadevga card--i'm not 100% sure you absolutely need the arcadvga card but i believe it is HIGHLY recommended.

[StephenH]

I have heard that some older D9200s do not work with light guns when using ArcadeVGA, but most other arcade monitors will work fine when using an ArcadeVGA.

The only thing is that you cannot use composite sync, you must separate the H and V syncs when using an arcade monitor with the Act Labs gun and ArcadeVGA.

[jub3i]

That's good to know.  I was planning on getting an ArcadeVGA card anyways.  If the PC version works for that, that would be great. Thanks for the help

[StephenH]

It will depend if the act labs gun draws its overlay (tiny white dot when it gets fired) via the decoder box, or in software by a signal back to the computer and draws using software to the video card.

If the actual overlay is done inside the box, the TV out version will not work, with the TV connected via component video, and the gun via the S-Video out.  If on the other hand the overlay is done via software, then  it might work.

However, there is a method that MAY work, if it does it inside the decoder box.    For this, you will need the VGA version of the gun, and an EXTERNAL RGB to component converter, and possibly the arcadeVGA.  For this setup, connect the gun decoder to the VGA card, and the output of the gun decoder box to the RGB to component converter, and then pass the output of the converter to the TV via component in.