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So Whats Better On a CTR TV Act Labs or LCD TopGun?
lettuce:
As title really, i know that the Act Labs are ALOT easier to setup than the LCD's, as i understand that these can be a bit of a pain in the arse to setup and then calibrate for each game, but when you actually have both guns set up working which one is best for MAME??
ARTIFACT:
the eternal question!
(see my thread posted recently ... an attempt at getting the final 'verdict' on lightguns ... i am as confusd as before if not more :) ... )
Green Giant:
That question is pretty much impossible to tell for sure.
Most people that buy the topguns like them and will never purchase the actlab. I have the lcd ones and I am really happy with them. Same goes for the other way around. Generally, people that really dislike one of them had problems and purchased the other one.
JoeB:
Isn't the bottom line that neither solution is perfect?
As far as I understand it, Act Labs has issues with getting the corners registered, and needs a nice bright picture. Where as the LCD TopGun has the added "ugly" LED bars (which don't look that good if you want an authentic look to your MAME machine) as well as the need to stand REALLY REALLY far away from the machine for it to work correctly
(much further than one normally did on the real machine).
ChicagoDave:
Having experience with both, my vote right now would be for the Act labs guns, simply because I cannot get the LCD Topguns to work reliably. I'm gettting closer, but still can't make them "dependable".
The Act Labs Guns worked great right out of the box.
I finally can get my dual Top Guns recognized by Windows, but in the middle of a game (HOTD 3 for example), they simply loose their USB connection. I even hear the "double bell" from windows as if the USB cable was removed. I already have the recoil disabled on both of the guns (that seemed to resolve a lot of the BSOD problems I had previously), but I still keep having issue after issue.
My hunch is that the problems are somehow related to USB power, but I'm still testing.
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