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Opti-Gun Adaptor - Says Works With Mame!
TPB:
We're talking about an interface that makes COMMERCIAL, ARCADE lightguns work on a PC.
A product like that, will never be strictly for the "Home" market.
You're not going to see this board sold in Wal-Mart or Zellers anytime soon.
So the point is moot ... who cares if this products's primary focus is the commercial market.
We're in a specialised niche hobby, where commercial products are generally "more to our tastes" anyway - providing we can pick them up for the best possible price. ;D
As Circo and CheffoJeffo agree, $199 is potentially a price worth paying.
But for that price, it must :
** Work flawlessly.
** Be easy to configure, so that it works "right out of the box".
** Customer support must be provided, and it must be prompt, courteous, and effective.
SirPeale:
I wonder if this is the same board used in Big Buck Hunter Pro (and the like) machines. They're PC based, but use a lightgun. Before I got the chance to find out I no longer had access to the machines.
Paul Olson:
For the feature request list, I will add more resolutions. The listed resolutions will not cut it if we want to display accurately.
Area 51 Site 4 - 640x240
Area 51 - 360x240
Police Trainer - 394x240
HOTD - 496x384
Those are the ones I can think of to look up on MAWS for now. This could be a big issue, but I would guess a fairly easy fix.
TPB:
--- Quote from: Peale on July 22, 2008, 11:39:09 am ---
I wonder if this is the same board used in Big Buck Hunter Pro (and the like) machines. They're PC based, but use a lightgun.
--- End quote ---
Good point !
It's possibly the same board. ::)
wbassett:
--- Quote from: TPB on July 22, 2008, 09:28:54 am ---
We're talking about an interface that makes COMMERCIAL, ARCADE lightguns work on a PC.
A product like that, will never be strictly for the "Home" market.
You're not going to see this board sold in Wal-Mart or Zellers anytime soon.
--- End quote ---
Ya know... I don't ever recall any arcade type product being sold in Walmart. If Walmart defines what the home arcade user market is, then none of us would have home arcades right now.
Well maybe that crappy 100 all in one game cab they tried to sell last year that was a POS.
My point is if this can be used on a PC, then it can be used at home, and pricing it for commercial arcade sales is a bit much. Lower the price and tap into both markets. That's the smart thing and what I would do.
You can get an I-PAC for what? Around $40? A dedicated gun controller should cost around the same. If they add IPAC features, then sure, add on another $30-$40 and then for an audio amp (which are extremely inexpensive) maybe another $20. So we're at $90-$100 bucks. That's what this really should be priced at, but if they have the only one... they can price it at whatever they want.
The closest I think I ever saw anything coming to a mainstream product was the X-Arcade dual stick and TankStick were sold through BestBuy last year. Other than that, I don't ever recall any arcade controller or device being sold through a brick and mortar store. If that legitimizes things, then nothing we get is 'legit', or mainstream, meaning people can charge whatever they want... and that's not right. Yes it's a small market, but things still need to be priced to what that market will bear. If people are willing to pay $200 for this interface, then that's what it will sell for whether it's over priced or not. If people demand a lower price, well the company will meet that demand or they will just not sell it commercially and then another company could come along to fill the niche.
Personally I'd like to see how willing they are to accomodate us and come out with a consumer version and what the price will be as well as how soon they can do it. If they miss the boat, then it looks like the EMS TopGun is the reigning king, which is a shame because although it has a lot of potential, they are lazy in the sense that it took them over two years to deliver what they should have when it was presented originally. That's what you get with no competition, and that's not what we should settle for. (Keep in mind the TopGun is just a cheap retrofit of a PS2 Guncon gun and not an original design... and it still took two years for them to rework Smog's driver's)
This may or may not be our dream come true, but it is a very good sign that we are starting to see a variety of options. With a variety comes competition, and competition means better products and lower prices.
Honestly, I'm just waiting for everything to settle down and someone rise to the occasion as the premier lightgun for us MAME users. If it's EMS, great, but I do like to see some competion to keep things honest.
Ultimately the guts to a basic arcade gun are very inexpensive and could be put in a variety of gun casings and plugged into an interface like this. If another company or two (Hint GroovyGame Gear, XArcade, Ultimarc) would develop something like this we could be talking about a $40-60 interface as a very realistic price.
It is hard to believe that people have come up with interface hacks for T2 guns, Star Wars yokes, steering wheels and other devices yet we're still waiting for a viable light gun option.
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