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ArcadeAddict77:
I have been reading up on light guns over the last couple of days and I believe the topgun II's seem to be the latest domestic product on the market, which seems to give the most success. I am looking at these as I am leaning towards putting an LCD in my cabinet when I build it.

Does anyone have any experience on how these guns perform when the LED strips are installed in a cabinet? So behind glass/plexi and a bezel?

I am concerned once I put my cab together and cover the LEDs with a potentially reflective surface of glass or plexi and also a black coloured bezel made of cardboard or some other material, the signals will not be able to make the journey from the guns to the LED strips.

I'd be very grateful to anyone who has any experience on this. Perhaps I am looking at this all wrong and there is a better product available on the market - In this case let me know.

Jeremy.

Edit: I have just read through Andy's market research thread, so will keep my eye on Ultimarc.

swamprat96:
I've got them running through slightly smoked glass. The strips are mounted top and bottom to an arcade monitor which is on a 30 degree slope! Also as I bought two sets for the cab I have a spare set of led strips which I've mounted to my PC monitor (22") as a test unit. I Just put a clear sheet of plexi in front of the monitor and tried it- no problems

They work well with the following caveats.
1. The shooting distance is 2-3 times the distance between the strips. If you mount them top and bottom you'll get a shorter range
2. They are *really* susceptible to outside light sources, I am building this cab in a room with windows behind either side of the cab and unless I black them out the guns play up
3. Mame Offscreen reload does not work in lethal enforcers 1 or 2. It sort of works in area51 but is a bit random. The mame offscreen_reload command does not seem to work. I mention this as it works with a mouse- just not lightguns

*EDIT - I've realised that the smoked glass is causing issues. Whether its the reflections or the 30 degrees I don't know- but clear seems to be ok

Derrick Renaud:

--- Quote from: swamprat96 on April 17, 2009, 05:43:36 pm ---3. Mame Offscreen reload does not work in lethal enforcers 1 or 2. It sort of works in area51 but is a bit random. The mame offscreen_reload command does not seem to work. I mention this as it works with a mouse- just not lightguns
--- End quote ---

Works fine for me.  Are you sure you are using the second button as reload?

Oops, I was trying Lethal Justice.  Let me try LE and get back to you....

Yep they all work fine.

swamprat96:
HI Derrick,

Could you possibly share your mame.ini setting , and your lethalen.cfg? Also how do you have your topguns setup- EMS driver? DEfaults?
TIA
Tony

ArcadeAddict77:
Hey guys,

So from the posts I think clear plexi / having the LED strips visible is a must?

Jeremy

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