I fondly remember playing games like Confidential Mission on my Dreamcast in the games room, displayed on a 26″ Hantarex screen that came out of a video conference room.
However, with the switch of TVs and monitors to LCD / OLED etc, these old guns no longer work.
After doing some browsing across several web sites and comparing the infra red based guns, I decided to build a Gun4IR as it did not seem to require many parts and would fit into one of the plastic gun cases sitting around from the old gun arcade machines that no longer work.
Temporarily assembled using blu-tac, but lets me get it setup using the diagnostics on my PC.
Not the most exciting test, but proves that it actually does something!
I’ve now started setting it up with Mame to do more testing, and apart from the fact that it registers as being gun#2 it seems to work as expected.
I need to try it with some of the other emulators next, as we have a Jurassic Park cabinet that it would go with nicely. I know it has a hole in the back, I need to work out what to put there instead – the gun4ir instructions show a possibility of an RGB LED, so may see exactly what that shows when enabled.