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LightGun for Plasma: Aimtrack or EMS TopGun III

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  • 03-10-2012 11:24pm
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    Duggy747
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    Looking to get a light-gun to add to my setup, sick of not being able to play all those gun games I have (Always wanted to own Virtua Cop arcade since I was a kid, for nostalgia sake :pac:)

    I imagine Aimtrak lightgun will get the favour here, since it seems to be well liked and works for the most part pretty well. It's pricey but I could also just get the parts and build the gun myself for that bit less.

    The EMS TopGun III is cheaper but wireless would put me off for the sake that it and the recoil probably eats the 4x AA batteries. Build quality seems to be questionable with people having problems with the trigger failing and the software being finnicky.....

    Hmmm, think I've answered my own question here.

    Anyways, anyone have good experiences with the lightguns designed for LED/ LCD / Plasma screens in mind?


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    Dongasaurus
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    I have two EMS Topgun IIIs, they're good (for the brief time I used them) and you can disable the laser/recoil with a button combo. Worked *great* on the ps2. PC is a bit of a pain but fine once it's going.


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    Duggy747
    Registered Users Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Well, it'll be a big job regardless on the machine. A lot of setting up for the various gun games on arcade and different systems.

    I'm leaning towards the Aimtrak, seems to be the more consistent device and the software is fairly decent to work with.

    How did you find the battery life on the TopGun, if it wasn't too brief of a time you used them?


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    Dongasaurus
    Registered Users Posts: 99 ✭✭Dongasaurus


    Too brief to comment, actually went to use them yesterday but the batteries were dead :P Dunno how that happened so maybe they're juice guzzlers. I really used mine only on the ps2, I'm sure there'd be better community support on the aimtrak


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    Duggy747
    Registered Users Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Dongasaurus wrote: »
    Too brief to comment, actually went to use them yesterday but the batteries were dead :P Dunno how that happened so maybe they're juice guzzlers. I really used mine only on the ps2, I'm sure there'd be better community support on the aimtrak

    Yea, I decided to go with the aimtrack for convenience sake in terms of community support and the fact that the software seems to be easier to deal with.

    Oh well, cheers for the help :)


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