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is It Impossible To Get Arcade-Quality Guns For A Mame Cabinet?
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Yeah this is a bummer. Happ recoil setup + optigun is both expensive and stupidly risky it seems. For me having industrial-grade recoil makes a huge difference. It is one of the things I remember setting apart the quality of the arcade experience versus the nintendo zapper at home or what have you. This seems to be the one big area, control-wise at least, where the BYO mame community does not have a really good solution. The aim-trak seems pretty cool but I've not seen anyone use it with a high quality recoil setup and it sounds like you'd need to do some additional modification to the triggering mechanism.
I'm really impressed by Ultimarc and their products. We are all really lucky to have them around to provide such high-quality gear. Hopefully they can offer an out of the box solution for this at some point. I know Andy has said that they will not be doing anything with the old-school optical gun technologies (like the optigun was/is supposedly using) which is understandable although for me I wouldn't really mind b/c I'm using an arcade monitor but I know a lot of people are using LCDs. I'm not really that fired up about using any of the LED solutions which require mounting a couple of sensors and having to calibrate the guns frequently. The lack of needing to that seems like a real advantage of the old-school technique although I may not understand that correctly.
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