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Act Labs Gun questions(choosing the right gun for my cab)
Ginsu Victim:
Considering you have to angle the LEDs down toward the gun, I think the Aimtrak will work with your cabinet. The smoked plexi will pretty much hide it, and it looks like it would work.
jasonbar:
I had ACT-Labs guns that worked fine on the Windows desktop. I had trouble setting them in MAME, and when I installed my smoked tempered glass, they didn't work at all.
I got a pair of EMS TopGun IIs & thought hard about how best to mount them, but I haven't mounted them yet. I tested them by taping them to the front of my monitor glass. They work pretty well. My final mounting plan was to attach them to hinged brackets on the fronts of the side panels of the cabinet. Then I could swing them over to be in front of the monitor when playing a gun game & get them as close as possible to the left & right edges of the monitor, blocking my bezel art only when playing gun games. I'd have preferred to mount them between my internal plastic monitor bezel & my monitor glass, but the artwork would've blocked the bars if I moved them out far enough to where they weren't blocking the tube.
Your cabinet is really full of artwork, so there's not much room to mount a bar or two...
If you use the Ultimarc product & need just 1 top bar, perhaps you can hang it from your speaker panel or integrate it into your marquee lower retainer?
Good luck,
-Jason
swamprat96:
Yep thats what I meant. The bar is so thin if you mount it above the glass behind the speakers you will hardly notice it.
Aim Trak is by far the best solution for guns currently
doctorhifi:
With the Aimtrack looking like a real solution to all the light gun woes of the BYOAC community, the Actlab guns will soon be a distant memory; and a bad memory for some.
Personally, I have had good results with the Actlab guns but can also confirm with Swamprat96 that tinted glass or plexi will give you trouble. I should mention that I am using a 27" CRT. Not saying you shouldn't try hard to make the Aimtrack work (once it is sufficiently peer reviewed) but you don't have to dismiss the Actlabs especially if you can get them somewhere cheap.
Loafmeister:
Bent98, I can't see ypur cab pics from work, they're blocked out but I will check at home and let you know.
Just to clarify: the topgun I have works just fine through my tinted glass so this might be dependant on just how tinted the glass is. Also, one of my LED's is mounted behind the tinted glass, the other is mounted underneath the marquee. Hard to explain, I'll post pics tonight but my point is, your LED does not have to be exactly on top of your monitor, this is why LED's work with various different size monitors/TV's. I believe this means you could have the LED bar of the Ultimarc solution right on top of your cab.
It's all in the calibration which determines where you point, you shoot. This is the reason why for some who are having trouble calibrating/hitting corners, the solution has been "when you calibrate, point further away from the corner of your monitor (for the topgun, and this helps with accuracy immensely!). This is true of the topgun, I'm assuming its true of the Ultimarc solution as well. The only potential issue I see, if you have the LED bar too far from the monitor, this would mean you'd have to stand back further.
Please correct me if I'm wrong folks, my experience is limited to the topgun only.
Rob
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