Hey guys, welcome back. Alright, in today's episode we're going to talk about light guns. Well, not really light guns, they're these positional guns, which are really cool. If you remember like Terminator 2, it used guns like this. They're like mounted positional guns, but they use potentiometers instead of IR sensors, so you can use them on modern displays. But they're really expensive, so the ones I've been eyeing for a while are these ones over at Holland Computer, but they cost 700 bucks, and they have three games preloaded. It's an actual kit. So this kit comes with the two guns, force feedback, it has all the wiring you need and there's three games on this pcb there's alien extinction far cry and house of the dead 3 the problem is the pricing is crazy so something that's really cool happened the other day is this guy alejandro who watches the channel was like hey dude i want to send you these for review but you have to give them back to me but you can evaluate them which i was super stoked on that because first of all that's a really cool thing for him to do and uh and i get to play with cool technology tell him what i think about him and then i'm to send them back to him so thank you alejandro that's super cool of you to do so if you look these guns are also super expensive on aliexpress but they get you a little bit here because they're like oh 276 that's not bad right yeah i can afford that then you're like oh yeah wait hold on shipping 205 so we're still talking cheaper than holland computer but still really expensive and you got to wait for them to come from china now the other thing is if you don't know what you're looking for you can also find the same things, same exact thing for a lot more. It's 550 plus 313 shipping, but again, it's the same actual gun system. So what we're going to do is because I'm only going to have these for a temporary amount of time, I'm going to show you the setup I did. I'm going to show you some gameplay and I'm going to let you know what I think about these. They're really, really cool. I'm super excited to have this opportunity. So let's go check them out. Okay. So what did I build exactly? So the reason why I built this is because I knew I was only going to have it for a short amount of time, and I definitely appreciate Alejandro loaning it to me. So you'll see there's some unfinished things, like I didn't, you know, put a boot over this, but that's because it's just temporary. But I needed something where I could showcase the technology and not have to build a whole entire device. So all I did is I really put, I drilled two holes for start buttons, so player one and player two. I mounted the two guns to the top of this case. I even drilled out a little hole here with a hole saw for the fan, so the fan that this, that runs the PC so that it would actually get some kind of ventilation while it's in there. Now, this setup is a little daunting at first because this is included in the box and you're like, holy crap, that's a lot of wiring. And you'll see when I open it up, it is a lot of wiring, but it's not that bad. You just got to like, trust me on that. It just looks bad. So I'm going to open this up. Oh, I have it locked. So I'm going to open this up and I'll show you the inside. So when I tip this forward, you're going to see I've got, this case was actually from a drone that I had. So it was from an old DGI drone. So there you can see how I mounted the guns in the bottom. And then I drilled holes to route the wires through the bottom as well. And then I got player one and player two. That little orange button right there, that orange button is actually mounted on the side of the case. And that is actually for the test menu. So when you want to go in and calibrate the guns and stuff like that. Now I know this is a rat's nest, but again, it's not permanent. So there a power supply in there an arcade power supply That powers the 12 volts for the lights So if you look the guns actually are lit up So those lights work off 12 volts and then there force feedback on the guns, which you'll see when we get to gameplay, and that is actually fed from 24 volts. So that power supply happens to support both 12 volts and 24 volts. That right there is the actual vibration board, so that's what controls the force feedback. And then if you look on the side of it right here, that's where all the wiring comes into the PC. And then the other thing I needed to do is I need to figure out how to go from VGA to HDMI. So I have this VGA to HDMI adapter right there. The reason why I did that is because the HDMI on this unit does not carry the audio. So I had to find a way to do that. So basically I just found a VGA to HDMI that allows me to splice in the audio from the audio output. All right, let's look at the back real quick they did some cool things on the back as well. Okay, so what did I do along the back side of this unit? Well, first of all, I drilled this hole so that I could sort of route out both power cables and provide myself with a single power on power off solution. And this is just a power strip that's mountable to the case. So I just mounted it right there. And you'll see these are both the power plugs coming from the two devices inside. One is going to be for the main PC, and the other one is for that 12, 24 volt power supply. The reason again for that is that these guns have both force feedback and they have this sort of LED light that lights the whole gun up. So you need 12 volts and 24 volts in order for that to operate properly. Now, the one thing I did notice about these, I was kind of bummed out about is if you look around back, there's actually these LEDs right here and they don't work on mine. So there's actually an alien extinction. They're supposed to count down. That's the only problem I had with these. I don't know if they're broken or what, but when I looked at the wire harness, I didn't do anything wrong, so I poked around and couldn't figure it out, so I'm kind of bummed out about that. Now, these guns, they actually are these positional guns that use potentiometers, so once you get them all set up and calibrated, you're fine. You can do them on any kind of modern television because it's not a traditional light gun. You can see there's no IR sensor. There's nothing in here that needs to talk to a sensor bar on a TV or anything like that. There's a couple cool auxiliary buttons on these things. They're for various different things in the game, like alien extinction. This is actually for your flamethrower. In Far Cry, this will do grenades and stuff like that. And each game will tell you what exactly these buttons are for, which is pretty cool. Getting down into the internals of it, you will see there are some potentiometers in there. And those potentiometers will basically tell the game where the gun is located. So like I said, once you have it calibrated, you're pretty much good to go. And you can use it on any size big screen TV, a projector, anything really. So once you have this positioned somewhere, you can just fire away and it's pretty awesome actually. I'm pretty stoked about these. The one thing you'll notice is this version of it is a kit and it has a proprietary connector. So it does not have USB. However, they do sell a version of this with USB. So I'm definitely interested, when I give these back to Alejandro I definitely interested in maybe picking up one of the single USB ones and seeing what I can do with that Alright before we get started I know there a few things you guys are going to want to know about Like, how many decibels do these guns put out? Like, is the solenoid any good in here? So I'm going to put it right up to the gun and refire it. So, this thing reads, at the gun level, about 98 decibels. So we're going to go over to my T2. Yeah, it's about a constant 98. Now I'm going to use the other one too because this one feels stronger to me.