Old ACT Labs Guns

[shaunopp]

I have a pair of the old ACT Labs Light Guns pictured below:

They don't hook up via usb and there's no drivers for Vista. ACT claims even if I buy a new VGA box they won't work with it (the round plugin looks similar though). I don't mind buying new light guns, I just really like the look of these, more of a space gun than a real gun so I'd like to use them.

Anyone have any ideas for updating them or heard of it being done? I'm willing to hack wires, splice cables, whatever.

[bkenobi]

You would have to find out what the difference is between the old guns you have and the new ones that ACT now sells before you would be able to know for sure. If not, the only way to know would be to open it up and start trying stuff. If you don't know how they work or have a computer engineering background, you might have a tough time doing that.

I think there probably is a difference between the new and old guns though. The old ones required the "dual gun" flag in MAME whereas the new guns do not. Other than that, I don't know...

[shaunopp]

You would have to find out what the difference is between the old guns you have and the new ones that ACT now sells before you would be able to know for sure. If not, the only way to know would be to open it up and start trying stuff. If you don't know how they work or have a computer engineering background, you might have a tough time doing that.

I think there probably is a difference between the new and old guns though. The old ones required the "dual gun" flag in MAME whereas the new guns do not. Other than that, I don't know...

Looks like there's very little hope, here's a response from ACT Labs:

The engineer confirmed that it (rewiring) does not work as the old gun has no calibration switch.

[bkenobi]

Doh! So there's no drivers for those guns for Vista? And you can't use the WinXP drivers in Vista? If so, that's a pretty crappy way to treat customers. Well, unless it requires a major rewrite of the driver. Supporting legacy hardware forever isn't profitable either...