Arcade Lightgun setup!

Booner!

Booner!

Booner!

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Hey guys, just wondered if anyone could shed light on this.

I went to an arcade the other day :rolleyes: and basically love the lightgun games with my mate. I have been looking in auctions for a lightgun coin-op machine but they are quite expensive for what you get.

So i was wondering whats the best platform, game and guns to get so i can just set it up on like my widescreen TV?

Any ideas before Xmas when i have mates over? :p
 
hmmm

I loved my playstation

Time Crisis !
or there a dreamcast for Hose of the Dead

hmm what console has the most lightgun games?
 
I'm pretty sure you can get mame compatible light guns. There might be a way to get a proper arcade lightgun from happcontrols.com to work with it.
 
if you can wait till descember the 8th there is a console comoing out that uses a light gun for all its games. It has motion sensing too. Should be just what your looking for.

;)
 
JaFFa said:
if you can wait till descember the 8th there is a console comoing out that uses a light gun for all its games. It has motion sensing too. Should be just what your looking for.

;)
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O rly? got a name or any details? Im looking for an alternative to the arcade setup really, just the best way of mimic-ing it with a large LCD and lightguns! :p
 
saturn > virtua cop 1+2. Infact that reminds me, need to get round to selling my saturn :P
 
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after gettin hooked on the time crisis arcade machine (again lol) i modded my old psx gun with a foot pedal to reload :) only problem is there is no recoil :(

i assume if you connected up an old psx gun to one of them psx or ps2 to usb converters you should be able to use it in mame??
 
So , as a newbie to this, Can someone explain the basics for 2 player PC arcade lightgun recoil gaming?

Equiptment, game, drivers etc :)

Or the console alternative (best one out there)
 
Booner! said:
So , as a newbie to this, Can someone explain the basics for 2 player PC arcade lightgun recoil gaming?

Equiptment, game, drivers etc :)

Or the console alternative (best one out there)
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the nintendo wii (what jaffa reffered to) uses a remote/lightgun type controller with an extra dimension and tilt control. So maybe have a look at that. But the lightgun attachment i think i read i read in the new edge has been cancelled (hopefully not forever tho, hopefully for a redesign)

However from experience i'd recomend a ps2, 2 namco gcon2's and time crisis 2/3 (theres quite a few other ps2 lightgun games too), and consider two ps2's and two widescreen tv's for the ultimate :)

two's the magic number
best
 
best said:
the nintendo wii (what jaffa reffered to) uses a remote/lightgun type controller with an extra dimension and tilt control. So maybe have a look at that. But the lightgun attachment i think i read i read in the new edge has been cancelled (hopefully not forever tho, hopefully for a redesign)

However from experience i'd recomend a ps2, 2 namco gcon2's and time crisis 2/3 (theres quite a few other ps2 lightgun games too), and consider two ps2's and two widescreen tv's for the ultimate :)

two's the magic number
best
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The wii controller is a light gun ut the box, it works as a pointer on the screen, its prob the bit of plastic to make the controller resemble a gun your thinking of. Im sure lots of those will be released by 3rd parties just like the steering wheel holder thing ubisoft came up with.

www.wii.com
 
roboffer said:
Buy a Wii. Sorted.
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why? Doesnt offer one lightgun game on launch.

Has to be the PS2. Time Crisis 1 and another TC game from PS1 days. Time Crisis 2 & 3 also on PS2, as well as a load of third party ones too...

deff PS2. There used to be a PS gun available as well, 3rd party, which had similar recoil to time crisis arcade efforts.
 
well considering he loves the light gun thing then there couldnt be a beter solution than a wii. The ps2 has what? 3 light gun games? I really dont see how thats better to spend 130 quid on a ps2 with time crisis 3 and a gun when for 180 he could have a next gen console.

There will doubtlessly be hundreds of 'shooting' games on wii. Red steel alone is a shooting light gun game, thats not on rails! Same for CoD3 and metroid prime.
 
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