I know this is a long shot and I have a pretty unique setup, but I figured I'd ask here as I took some videos that allowed me to get screen shots of the differences I am seeing.
I have a USB2GUN board that I am using to run emulators with actual Happ light guns in a Windows environment. The USB2GUN board provides a screen flash on trigger pull at the hardware level.
It is working pretty well however I noticed that I have to turn my brightness/contrast up more than I'd prefer in order for the emulators to track accurately. Like it's not awfully bright or anything, but it's not optimal for sure.
However I have noticed that this screen flash has some interference with some diagonal lines at the top portion of the screen. I can see it when I'm playing and I didn't think anything of it really, but then tonight I did some comparison videos/pics of the flash with the USB2GUN board and then my actual Maximum Force board, and to my surprise, aside from the lines appearing with the USB2GUN board, the screen flash is actually noticeably not as bright. I had no clue about this part of it until I took the videos earlier and could freeze frame screen shots of it, and this may explain why I have to turn the brightness up more than I'd like. Here are the pics below, notice the first one is duller and has the lines through it...
emulator/USB2GUN pic:
Maximum Force / Area 51 PCB:
Notice how much brighter the bottom pic flash is than the top one, as well as those lines going sideways on the top pic. This is also with the monitor being calibrated identical when the PC is running versus the actual JAMMA PCB.
So again, I know this is a long shot, but does anyone have any idea what could possibly be going on here? Yes I realize it's 2 different pieces of hardware, but I wasn't sure if there is something that could maybe cause the interference which MAYBE could be making the signal weaker as well.
I have the USB2GUN board powered from the PC ATX power supply and was going to try powering it from the Arcade PSU tomorrow. I did check the voltage on these earlier today though and the ATX PSU actually had more votage coming out of the power connectors than the arcade PSU does. I was testing it because I was trying to power the guns with different power sources to see if it made a difference with tracking, but this was before I knew that the flash was somewhat dull.
If you need more information feel free to ask me and I'll get back to you.
Thanks.
I have a USB2GUN board that I am using to run emulators with actual Happ light guns in a Windows environment. The USB2GUN board provides a screen flash on trigger pull at the hardware level.
It is working pretty well however I noticed that I have to turn my brightness/contrast up more than I'd prefer in order for the emulators to track accurately. Like it's not awfully bright or anything, but it's not optimal for sure.
However I have noticed that this screen flash has some interference with some diagonal lines at the top portion of the screen. I can see it when I'm playing and I didn't think anything of it really, but then tonight I did some comparison videos/pics of the flash with the USB2GUN board and then my actual Maximum Force board, and to my surprise, aside from the lines appearing with the USB2GUN board, the screen flash is actually noticeably not as bright. I had no clue about this part of it until I took the videos earlier and could freeze frame screen shots of it, and this may explain why I have to turn the brightness up more than I'd like. Here are the pics below, notice the first one is duller and has the lines through it...
emulator/USB2GUN pic:
Maximum Force / Area 51 PCB:
Notice how much brighter the bottom pic flash is than the top one, as well as those lines going sideways on the top pic. This is also with the monitor being calibrated identical when the PC is running versus the actual JAMMA PCB.
So again, I know this is a long shot, but does anyone have any idea what could possibly be going on here? Yes I realize it's 2 different pieces of hardware, but I wasn't sure if there is something that could maybe cause the interference which MAYBE could be making the signal weaker as well.
I have the USB2GUN board powered from the PC ATX power supply and was going to try powering it from the Arcade PSU tomorrow. I did check the voltage on these earlier today though and the ATX PSU actually had more votage coming out of the power connectors than the arcade PSU does. I was testing it because I was trying to power the guns with different power sources to see if it made a difference with tracking, but this was before I knew that the flash was somewhat dull.
If you need more information feel free to ask me and I'll get back to you.
Thanks.