VGA-SCART and Lightguns

[buks]

If you have built, or are planning on building a VGA-SCART cable for that "near-as-possible-to-an-arcade-monitor" quality on your SCART enabled TV AND you want to play with lightguns then take a look at Acorns site for a quick 2 wire solution :

http://www.acornscity.com/guncon/index.php

Check the forums and look for the "VGA to SCART cable - any joy with Guncon ?" post for the solution posted by Daniel_dk. I can confirm it works with the Hais Mission guns.

Schematics for building the cable are here - http://ryoandr.free.fr/

Good luck !

PS the solution is also posted on SMOGS board too - http://xoomer.virgilio.it/smogdragon/

[dennis808]

Hey buks!
Nice seeing you here too! _{(BTW did you know buks means rifle in Dutch!)}

[buks]

Dennis - nice to see you here too ! I had no idea that my name meant ANYTHING !

good luck with the guns. I've been messing about with mine and had some success. Problem was I couldn't see the red lines in the calibration screen so my guns didn't calibrate properly. Eventually I found a resolution that did show them (640x480) but the scanlines make text almost unreadable (for some reason I'm not sure of). 800x600 works much better on my TV but you do lose the edges but that doesn't matter for most things. At one point I was able to play House of The Dead 3 with 2 guns which was a good laugh but since then I've been changing resolutions, swapping the guns over and generally messing about with the config of wingun and now they don't want to calibrate again.

I'm on holiday for a week from tomorrow so if you do post any news here or on Acorns forum then please don't think that I'm ignoring them !

Buks

PS I bought 2 Hais Mission Guns as Acorn recommended them to me. He personally prefers the Madcatz Blaster but I (sadly) wanted something that resembled a gun rather than a water pistol ! Good luck mate !