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is It Impossible To Get Arcade-Quality Guns For A Mame Cabinet?

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northerngames:

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If you're considering a purchase from David R. Foley's Nanotech, then you'd be wise to familiarise yourself with the following information :



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Nanotech, DIY Kits... Stay away, and be Afraid!!

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=97845.0


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Two indicted over theft of arcade software

http://articles.sfgate.com/2009-07-10/bay-area/17216613_1_game-packs-global-vr-jury-indicts


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Orange man indicted in video game fraud

http://www.allbusiness.com/crime-law-enforcement-corrections/criminal-offenses/12570451-1.html


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The best options :

*  The AimTrak, from Ultimarc,

*  The TopGun 2, from HK-EMS.



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seeing that I would not even bother with that guy.

 if he stole from his employers what makes you think he would not hesitate to steal from a stranger/you?


Nation:
Yeah the whole Foley situation is definitely sketchy although nanotech does seem to create and sell hardware but seemingly is uninterested in the mame community (not surprisingly considering what i've read).  The top gun 2 does not seem like a good solution if you're going for the real arcade experience.  Aimtrak also seems to fail for this because unless I'm wrong, you can't hook up the aimtrak to the happ recoil guns can you? If so has anyone actually done this?

  It's too bad that the investment is so high to find out what is up with the optigun. If I already had the happ guns I'd probably go ahead and order it but the problem is that if I order the whole setup and the optigun fails to work than I'm stuck with a happ gun set which I can't use either.  Someone in another thread threw out an idea for having 20 people donate $10 to send one of the optiguns to one of the forum members who already had a set of happ recoil guns laying around (there were a couple of people who said they had the recoil kit on a shelf).  I'd be more than willing to donate $10 for this cause. Probably would be difficult to round up 19 other people willing to do the same but I thought it was a cool idea.

AndyWarne:
Sometime I will get hold of a recoil gun and see if it can be hooked up. I can think of several ways in which recoil could work, the simplest being a large capacitor discharging through a solenoid in the gun when the trigger is pulled. This method would be posible to connect completely separately from the AimTrak provided a secondary trigger switch could be fitted.
Other connection methods would require some kind of interface which I could look into producing once we have the complete gun assembly finished.

TheShanMan:
Looking forward to the complete gun assembly, Andy! Recoil would be icing on the cake.

sarge:
Here's yet another disappointing post about nanotech's optigun:

http://www.vpforums.org/index.php?showtopic=5720&pid=40245&st=0&#entry40245

I was hoping this product would work out but it's really looking doubtful.

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