Posted by Howard Casto on 27, 2001 at 1:33 PM:
In Reply to: Re: One more thing posted by Tony C on 27, 2001 at 1:20 AM:
We need a cheap gun off of a console or ect that uses infra red or some kind of ultra-sonic technology. Light guns are a hassle because the software (in this case mame and the actual games) usually has to be re-written.
Then we need someone with good coding skills to make a direct-pad-pro like driver set, which would convert it to a signal that emulates an analogue joystick.
Wireless pointing devices used for presentations seem like a viable solution to me (for one player support anyway)
Has anyone tried to hack one of them into a gun?
: Hmm that site looks interesting, if somewhat sketchy... But after following a few links to the schematic for the PSX to LPT interface I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to make that one happen myself. Besides the page says the gun support is "untested" which, to me, means they're assuming it works. I couldn't find anywhere they say the gun is actually tested and working.
: Maybe guns just weren't meant to work on MAME. Too bad the InterAct gun is so poor (or so I'm told.)
: : : 3. People with TV's or arcade monitors are simply out of luck right now unless someone develops some kind of parallel port interface to one of the console guns.
: : Not true according to this site: