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Hello, my question is pretty much the title of this thread, I'm gonna receive a Sega Chihiro soon mainly for my Maximum Tune 3 Cab and I'm still pretty new to this whole scene. A game I always wanted to play at home was Virtua Cop 3, and since I'm actually getting the hardware that runs the game I feel now I have a good chance as any now. I heard about Open JVS and to my understanding it makes it possible to use USB controllers on arcade hardware, I have a pair of Sinden light guns and I was wondering if it's even possible to get that going with it, and if it is what would the process be like to get everything up and running?
 
I don't think anyone has Sinden working. You would also need a separate device to create the border around the picture.

GunCon 3 works:

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Just tested Guncon3 support (At least for 1 player) and it worked great. Full run of HOTD2 on Naomi and had no problems. I used drivers form:

https://github.com/lymandev/guncon3

And the next Device Map which I think can be improved:

BTN_WEST CONTROLLER_BUTTON_TEST
BTN_EAST CONTROLLER_BUTTON_COIN
BTN_NORTH CONTROLLER_BUTTON_START
BTN_START CONTROLLER_BUTTON_SERVICE
BTN_SOUTH CONTROLLER_BUTTON_A
ABS_X CONTROLLER_ANALOGUE_X
ABS_Y CONTROLLER_ANALOGUE_Y

I'm giving up on trying the Sinden gun at the moment as I don't have an OSSC to generate the border and the games look better without...
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Of course, just because someone hasn't made it work, doesn't mean you couldn't.
 
nem said:
I don't think anyone has Sinden working. You would also need a separate device to create the border around the picture.

GunCon 3 works:

E

Post in thread 'OpenJVS - JVS Emulator'

Just tested Guncon3 support (At least for 1 player) and it worked great. Full run of HOTD2 on Naomi and had no problems. I used drivers form:

https://github.com/lymandev/guncon3

And the next Device Map which I think can be improved:

BTN_WEST CONTROLLER_BUTTON_TEST
BTN_EAST CONTROLLER_BUTTON_COIN
BTN_NORTH CONTROLLER_BUTTON_START
BTN_START CONTROLLER_BUTTON_SERVICE
BTN_SOUTH CONTROLLER_BUTTON_A
ABS_X CONTROLLER_ANALOGUE_X
ABS_Y CONTROLLER_ANALOGUE_Y

I'm giving up on trying the Sinden gun at the moment as I don't have an OSSC to generate the border and the games look better without...
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Of course, just because someone hasn't made it work, doesn't mean you couldn't.
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Nice, I also do have 2 Guncon 3's and really do like those controllers so wouldn't mind using those either.
 
Good question, I need to revisit the OpenJVS hat, my idea was using the Guncon 2, as it's a CRT gun and doesn't rely on any external sensors (it uses csync). But I don't know of anybody who got it working yet, and the setup is a little bit involved if you don't know your way around Linux... I will ask chunksin if he could possibly add the drivers to the WiPi image.
 
Also do I need a patched version of the game for this to work? For example if I were to use the original GD ROM copy to run this game would it even work?
 
Sp33dFr34k said:
No, original should work fine.
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Awesome, I guess all that's left to do now is to get a raspberry PI with OpenJVS, do people sell those as a kit? Or do I gotta just wing it and build it myself? If so do you have a place that can point me in the right direction?
 
nem said:
I don't think anyone has Sinden working.
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there's a video on the official channel of them playing Rambo on Lindbergh, so presumably that should work for all Sega Type II IR, which includes Chihiro games like VC3.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljmXDBuNFV8


nem said:
You would also need a separate device to create the border around the picture.
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I'm surprised Sinden doesn't offer a device that can inject the border to any video like an on-screen display, I know there exists devices to do that for many other applications.
 
twistedsymphony said:
there's a video on the official channel of them playing Rambo on Lindbergh, so presumably that should work for all Sega Type II IR, which includes Chihiro games like VC3.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljmXDBuNFV8



I'm surprised Sinden doesn't offer a device that can inject the border to any video like an on-screen display, I know there exists devices to do that for many other applications.
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Tbf, I don't think they're using original hardware here
 
antonioad14(TWON) said:
Tbf, I don't think they're using original hardware here
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hmm... I didn't even consider that.

seems bizarre to me that they can't support a simple 5V analog output from their setup. Is there any documentation on the sinden hardware for developers?
 
Honestly at this point I'm totally cool with using the Guncon 3's I find them cooler, and it'll be nice to use them for more then the 3 games they were made for.
 
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