LCD Lightgun? Yes please.

Spacedeck said:
I'm tempted to order myself one of these Sinden guns. Is the recoil version worth the extra?

I keep reading that the software is really bad and hard to get games working properly.

Also it'll be used on a normal monitor under MAME, so probably not as snappy as it would be on Mister, but does it still work well on MAME?
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Recoil is fun but not essential.

Batocera has native sinden support.

I'd just pick up someone else's build and customise it if needed.
 
@hyperseven, I've never heard of Batocera, but sounds like that would be acquiring another PC. I already have MAME setup on my gaming PC, so I'm just looking for a good solution for using a gun with my current setup.
 
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Spacedeck said:
@hyperseven, I've never heard of Batocera, but sounds like that would be acquiring another PC. I already have MAME setup on my gaming PC, so I'm just looking for a good solution for using a gun with my current setup.
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Batocera is a bootable Linux-based retro gaming OS, you can boot the burned image straight off SD card/SSD
 
Is that supposed to be better than me running MAME on my PC? or is it just the recommended way because of the Sinden support?
 
Sorry to ask but the OP post is from 2019. Where are we with "modern" light guns? I'd love to relive the days of Time Crisis II with recoil.

Are the modern alternatives lag free or "lag-free"? I'm pretty sensitive to that sort of thing.
 
exhashdotdot said:
Sorry to ask but the OP post is from 2019. Where are we with "modern" light guns? I'd love to relive the days of Time Crisis II with recoil.

Are the modern alternatives lag free or "lag-free"? I'm pretty sensitive to that sort of thing.
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There was a new plug and play light gun announced recently, can't comment about the lag.

www.timeextension.com

Time Crisis, Point Blank And Steel Gunner Are Coming To Modern TVs This Fall, Thanks To A $120 Plug-And-Play Light Gun

Update: Also available in a cheaper one-game package
www.timeextension.com www.timeextension.com
 
Spacedeck said:
Is that supposed to be better than me running MAME on my PC? or is it just the recommended way because of the Sinden support?
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Can’t comment on if it’s “better” or not but Batocera has the support built in so it’s a plug and play solution. Ive been looking in to a Sinden for my own Batocera set up and along the way I’ve read a lot about how awkward and fiddly it can be to set up MAME and other emulators with a the necessary config files to get a lightgun working.

This website - https://lightgun.retrolunatics.com/ - may help you. I’ve just found it but it seems to have a lot of Windows based front ends and set ups specifically for lightguns
 
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