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Exidy Multi shooter
richieknucklez:
It has been awhile since I tinkered with mame, and even longer since I set up a cab with light guns. The Act Labs silver guns I wound up using eventually found thier way out of the cab and into an old box in the attic.
Anyways, I own both dedicated Cheyenne and Crossbow cabs and swap Combat and Chiller pcbs in and out when I get bored. I love the Exidy 440 series and have been waiting and praying for the day Dave Widel makes another run of multi Exidy kits.
I am growing more and more impatient and I was toying with the idea of making a MAME exidy multishooter. I picked up an empty trashed Crossbow cab last week which would make a fine candidate for restoration.
I guess what I am asking is has anyone ever attempted such an animal?
Here is where I am a noob with mame and light guns,
I know you can setup mame.cfg to mirror the image, but if you used a mirrored monitor would the shots register correctly?
Also, I would want to use one of the Combat/Cheyenne Stationary positioned rifles.
Has anyone ever transplanted a pc based optical gun's guts into an actual Exidy style gun? Shooting with that light plastic toy gun just would not do.
Any advice or opinions would be greatly appreciated
Richie Knucklez
TOK:
Since MAME supports those with the mouse pretty well, have you considered doing a hack to make it a positional (mouse hack) gun rather than a light gun? The Exidy games require very precise shooting, and I'm not sure anything other than positional in MAME is up to it yet.
I'm relatively local to your arcade and have been dying to come out... I had something going on the week of the CAG event, and it killed me.
CheffoJeffo:
First off, welcome!
For those who don't know who richieknucklez is -- his arcade (yes, I mean arcade in the proper sense :police:) was featured in the March issue of GameRoom Magazine. (So don't be telling him do "Do a search noob" !)
I'll let others speak to the details as i have been holding off a gun-based MAME until such time as there was a driver board that supported standard arcade guns. I think we're still waiting to hear how the optical boards from Nanotech work out. Happ was testing them and had some form of problem that Nanotech was working on last I heard.
An Exidy multishooter would be a very cool cab to have.
richieknucklez:
Thanks for the props as well as the warm welcome guys.
The Classic arcade gaming tourney at my place was a huge success.
here are some vids of my place;
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=richie+knucklez&aq=f
(check my Pole Position 2 and Monaco GP vids)
here are some pics of the tourney as well;
http://www.richieknucklez.com/html/news.html
hope to meet you guys soon
Richie
lordtodd75:
--- Quote from: richieknucklez on April 01, 2009, 08:10:07 pm ---Anyways, I own both dedicated Cheyenne and Crossbow cabs and swap Combat and Chiller pcbs in and out when I get bored.
--- End quote ---
Let me just say I envy you, I have been looking for crossbow and chiller for a while, they are tough to come by. I am going to be following this thread very closely ;D
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