Posted by Michael Bazaillion on 26, 2001 at 7:33 PM:
In Reply to: Re: Infrared Light Gun Info? posted by Andy Geez on 26, 2001 at 3:24 PM:
: What information do you need??
: I can supply you a picture of the Sensor board, the layout of the Infrared sensors and such, I can also suppy the Sega Part #'s, however these are very expensive, remember this is a commercial system, not a home system, your looking at $500+
Thanks,
Any info you could provide me would be cool.
I checked out Confidential Mission at the arcades today. It looks like they have 5 sensors at top and bottom of the screen (I am assuming these are the phototransistors because it looked like they had IR filters over them). I guess a way to be sure would be to put IR detecter paper strip up to one to be sure.
What I am trying to do is design a similar system myself. I am currently in the process of designing a linux based arcade shooter utilizing OpenGL and either geforce3 or ATI radeon 8500 hardware. As well as it would be cool to utilize this for mame.
I would rather use this all optical method rather than the usual screen detection method, because I would otherwise have to make a VGA pass thru system to detect the vblank and use highspeed counters for svga resolutions.
My thoughts are that they are using 10 sensors and average them down. Probably through Op-Amps then to an ADC.
Email me any info you can.
Thanks,
bazaillion@yahoo.com