Building homemade guns for Terminator2, Operation Wolf, Etc..

Posted by Brandon on 7, 2001 at 8:27 PM:

I have been fooling around trying to build homemade analog guns for games like T2, operation thunderbolt, etc. I think it should be fairly simple to make out of PVC, a toy gun or something and just set it up in MAME like a joystick. The problem I have is the way MAME reads the joysticks in gun games. It only registers movement on the positive side of the axis. That is, it only registers movements to the Left or down. I know you could calibrate the gun to work around it but you would lose the precision of the using the entire axis. Does anyone know a way around this? Am I doing something wrong? Has anyone ever tried this before?

Thanks
Brandon

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• YOU KNOW GUYS, SPEAKING OF POT...... Agent Davis 4/08/2001 (0)
• My tests regarding this Fultra 4/08/2001 (3)
  • Re: My tests regarding this Brandon 4/08/2001 (2)
    • Re: My tests regarding this Fultra 4/08/2001 (0)
    • P.S Anyone else trying this, feel free to email me.... ( N/T ) Brandon 4/08/2001 (0)
• Maybe using different pots might work??-nt NIVO 4/07/2001 (4)
  • Re: Maybe using different pots might work??-nt Brandon 4/07/2001 (3)
    • Maybe double the POT value and only use half of the rotation.. Tom61 4/07/2001 (2)
      • Re: Maybe double the POT value and only use half of the rotation.. Brandon 4/07/2001 (1)
        • Maybe use two pots per axis. Tiger-Heli 4/08/2001 (0)

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