I'm currently in the process of building a comprehensive light gun setup with a semi-automatic (excuse the pun) setup for Sinden, Gun4IR, Retro Shooter, AimTrak, Wiimotes and Blamcon light guns. I wouldn't charge a single penny for it either if someone wanted it after it was completed
all i did was google "cool hats for old white dudes" and now im buying random video game stuff i know nothing about.... man i dont even have enough money left for a hat...
Need to review Lee's lightgun legends build over 700 games. I threw lizards in the bin after getting that drive. I think he partners with intergrum. So looking forward to next review.
@@Stillgrey18I thought about buying a drive from him at one point but he just strikes me as a complete douchebag. Just couldn't bring myself to give him my money.
That's what I thought. And I was very successful at setting up my own build until I started trying to get light gun games to work. MAME is pretty easy but pretty much every other emulator is a total pain in the ass. I've been doing my own retro gaming builds for 4-5 years now and even with that amount of experience I'm considering buying this drive so I can have all my light gun games working.
@@HeavyInstinct but these drives don't always work. Heard of someone spent 400 on one and nothing worked. Had some one basically start from scratch. DIY is a good way to know what to do if something goes wrong. Plus I don't support people that profit from piracy. Nintendo would love to talk to them I'm sure.
@@neccros007 Hey, in general I totally agree with you. I'm just telling you in case you aren't aware, that when it comes to light gun games if you're planning on going the DIY route you're in for a whole lot of work and frustration. The worst part is even just trying to find information on how to get these games working. Almost every front end out there has decent tutorials available on how to set up your games and get them working. Not so much though when it comes to getting your light guns working. Another thing to consider is that this particular build comes with free monthly updates and support. He will even use TeamViewer to fix issues for you if that becomes necessary. So again one could look at it as though you're getting all the ROMs for free and just paying for the drive plus the updates and support. At least I'm sure that's how he would justify it lol. As you say going the DIY route is a great way to know how to deal with issues when they arise and to be able to customize things to your liking. So I'm not necessarily saying you're wrong. Good luck!
Curious as to how powerful of a PC will I need to run some of these newer games? I still only have a 1080ti. Also, as a Trekkie and light gun fan, I’m here for the Voyager game 🖖🏻🔫
I have an older gaming laptop with a 1080 and it runs everything on this drive pretty well. I hope that helps, I will talk a bit more about PC specs in some of my upcoming videos. That’s a great question and an awesome topic for a follow up video. Thanks so much for watching!
Never as a kid of the 80’s and 90’s would I have ever thought that some day I’d be able to play all of these games in my home. Although I have a decent selection of arcade and pinball machines, I’ve never been able to have a lot of shooter’s because of how much space they take up. These multi shooting systems keep on getting better and better and are enticing me to “pull the trigger” on one.
I couldn't agree more, as someone who collects a fair amount of original arcade games, it's hard to collect shooting cabs since most of them are so large in size. So having access to solutions like this really works well and while it's not original, I'm ok compromising on something like this. Thanks so much for watching!
@@RetroRalphhi. I don’t remember the cabinet having the retro shooter sensors built into the cabinet. Are you using the Gun4IR sensors with the retro shooter gun? Or did you install the retro shooter sensors onto this cabinet somehow. I remember the Gun 4IR leds are built into the screen.
I've been using his drive a few weeks now,his updates are turning it into something special.Free update every month with new games and constantly updating the drive.What is not to love
The VHS / TV gun games were used in the TV show Captain Power, where the toys were the light guns. They were really fun, and kept you watching the TV show so you could play during the credits. Such a great idea!
Love your videos. Can you please rate, if you have tested, in your experience: AimTrack, Sinden, Gun4ir, Retro Shooter, and for reference a Wiimote, in: Precision (how precise is from 0 to 100): Setup (how easy to setup is from 0 to 100): a Compatibility (how compatible is from 0 to 100): Looks (how cool/realistic it looks from 0 to 100): Price/Benefit (for the cost, from 0 to 100): Thanks!!!!!!!!
charging that kind of money while you can find better complete builds for free... Disgusting and honestly also disgusting that you are promoting that... Probably a sponsored video...
Great video!!! For the Kriscoolmod for the TeknoParrot subscription, once we have the license key how do we input it on the kriscoolmod light gun beast so we can play the other TeknoParrot games, thank you.
Am i able to configure my sinden lightgun to work with this drive? Even if its not "plug and play" as i thought you would be able to set it up like how you would in teknoparrot
Hey buddy...thanks for making this video. Really cool. Correct me if I am wrong, That link you have posted is just for the 2TB HD with the games correct? And it does not include the Lightguns. Also Can you tell me from your experience if these games can run on something like this: Beelink SER5 MAX Mini PC, AMD Ryzen 7 5800H(7nm, 8C/16T) up to 4.4GHz, Mini Computer 16GB DDR4 RAM 1TB NVME SSD, Micro PC 4K@60Hz Triple Display, Mini Gaming Computer WiFi6|BT5.2|54W|HTPC|W-11 Pro? Thanks in advance.
Yes, the Action Max had games on VHS. It had a second box that you connected to keep score and it had a wired flashing red light with a suction cup to stick on your TV. It would flash when you hit a target.
I LOVED Lucky & Wild, a hybrid of a shooter and a driving game, kinda like Chase HQ. As a kid, we'd fit three of us in the bench seat instead of two. We'd have one person on each gun and then one guy focused just on driving, for maximum focus!
Really good video. I have a Retro Lizard light gun build. I’m very happy with it the support is excellent. I met you at the Schaumburg Pinball expo in Illinois. I was with my brother-in-law anyway good stuff.🔫👍
Thanks brother! I’ve only checked out his Batocera image that I found on Arcade Punks for the Sinden but it was really good. I’m glad you’re happy with his build, I have heard nothing but good things about his builds as well. It was nice meeting you man, you going to expo again this year?
Probably I love checking out the new arcades and pinball machines. There was a bowling machine there I really liked but I thought it was too expensive.
I want to point out unless techo patriot owns the liscend for thos games make you have a patron to play some of thos games is illegal cause the way the law works is them sale them thur patron if you have to have a patron to play them. Which means it illegal at least in the United States
I just put this together top of my mind, but these specs should play about everything... of course you could always go bigger, but that should play most of the modern (ish) TP games. Intel i7 3.4-3.9 GHz CPU 16GB RAM+ SSD Boot Drive or M.2 NVMe Nvidia GTX 1650 Graphics
It’s from Xtreme Gaming Cabinets Australia 🇦🇺 . They also now have an Xtreme Cabinets USA 🇺🇸 location in Maine. If you google it their websites should come up for you.
I was just at at D&B yesterday that still had HotD: Scarlet Dawn and Elevator Action Invasion. The (new) RetroShooter and KrisCoolMod looks like a relatively affordable way to get into a very capable lightgun rig. Great demonstration of what it is and what it can do! Like you said, the fact it supports multiple guns, you can start with the affordable option, and upgrade if you find it necessary. Above all, impressed that Kim appreciated that you were baked into the user interface for the build.
Thanks so much for watching man, I'm always impressed when someone in the community puts something together like this. It's fairly complex to make all these peices parts work together this seamlessly, I mean it's not flawless but nothing really is when it comes to stuf like this. Anyway, thanks so much for watching brother! I hope all is well!
This is a techno parrot requirements and has nothing to do with this light gun build. Unless you think kris coolmod is going to pay your patreon membership for you?
@@TCBurns24 Not quite. TeknoParrot is free to all regardless of whether it's on this build or someone else's including your own. However by paying a monthly donation through patreon they give you early access to certain newer games (within the emulator) that they are still working on making compatible with the emulator like Terminator Salvation (You or whoever created the build still has to supply the actual game files). So in essence you're paying to be a beta tester. These games will eventually be unlocked and available to play in the free version. So you can either wait it out or choose to pay for early access.
Thanks bud, while I can't disclose that exactly, you can just google Teknogods Patreon and find what you need. There are several options and the cheapest options allows you a license for two separate PCs I believe. I hope this helps :-)
Wild Gunman, I played a few times in Circus Circus, Las Vegas, maybe it was a conversion? But it was in a Nintendo Cab, because I remember how cool it was, since we had it for the NES.
I got excited that it had Silent Scope till I realized it's just emulating console versions. I was hoping the arcade ones were playable, so I could make something to get the scope and stream it to a gun-mounted display
Also, most of the console SIlent Scopes aren't playable / emulated correctly. Only the second one is, so having 1 and 3 on here is worthless / deceptive bloat.
In High School the dude that sat behind me in Science class was a Cannibal Corpse super fan... LOL. He also made sure I knew about every song, every album and every music video. So yeahhhhhhhhh... haha. He also brought me home from school a few times in his Camaro and guess what was in the tape deck.... LOL!
Cannibal corpse!!! 🤘 Lol. I wish they had something to download that actually worked. I tried a build that didn't work. Nothing else works with the Retro shooter.
This is really cool, but honestly, I'd like the option to just buy the image and not have to get a whole had drive shipped out to me. I do recongnize that there is A LOT of work in this. Setting all that stuff setup properly is a pain in the butt.
Good Review. Although 349.00 is a little pricy. Kinhanks full12 tb hyperspin attract that everything works is even less than that at 275, But good job Chris!
Honestly, I don't know a lot about that project, I backed it but in the videos, I was a bit concerned about the latency. I love the idea of a wireless lightgun though, I can't recommend it at this point though, I just don't know enough about it.
I had Captain Power too, I really wish I still had it just to remember how it was. Didn't he fly out of the ship when you got damaged too much or am I thiniking of something else?
@@RetroRalph yep!! When your PowerJet XT7 took too many "hits". I actually still have most of the toy line and a couple original boxes for them! And a few VHS tapes of that came with them!
You left out the ONE ITEM/FEATURE that, In my opinion, is the PRO that separates this build/drive from the other purchase options. This is MameHooker. To date over 100 of the true, 270ish, light gun games are capable of generating Output, in this case, to sync the Gun4ir solenoid and rumble. Its a large task for a large build. The games have to booted/launched in a particular way. There are multiple settings that have to be configured on general and individual game level. This drive is built with this in mind and much of the setup is on the drive right now. I believe he is working to ha e it ready on the next official update, but I have about 12 of then working right now. Disclaimer...I had a head start as I was adding mamehooker to one of my 2 other drives, and had TRA, RHA T2 and Opwolf working before I purchased this drive. The other drive were very limiting as the boot/launch was not mamehooker ready for only a few titles.
@retro ralph I see you added the Retrobeast drive to your Extreme Cabinet. Thanks for doing this awesome review btw, this looks like a fairly awesome turnkey solution that is loaded with many awesome light gun games that we've all dreamed of having in one place. For noobs that are not even remotely as experienced as yourself, how hard/ easy is it to add the KrisCoolMod Retrobeast 2TB LightGun drive to a newly built built Extreme Gaming Cabinets 50" Lightgun Arcade Shooter Cabinet, with GUN4IR guns and leds? I understand their factory cabinet includes 270 games but as you demonstrated there are an absolute tone of lightgun games on the Retrobeast drive.
Scanned all the comments and didn’t see this asked but would this build allow you to use Retroshooter for P1 and Gun4Ir for player 2? Like mix and match guns?
I set HOTDSD unlimited ammo, health, Gatling gun, Rocket Launcher and play all the way through. Sometimes unlimited ammo rocket launcher gets stuck firing in the corner and you have to restart the game.
I got this drive and can't currently recommend it. It doesn't change the Gun4IR screen mode, so you don't have perfect aim in MAME. There's also no way to easily disable the crosshair across the board in all emulators, requiring separate manual configuration for each emulator (sometimes individual games). There's other stuff too that could use improvements, but not going to list out everything here. The Integrum Retro drive is much more polished and doesn't install so much unnecessary stuff on your system, like Wallpaper Engine. It's also a bit cheaper.
Hi guys. I just bought an Xbox One X and I can emulate all arcades and many consoles with it. Can someone suggest the best light guns that can work with the One X? Thanks.
I've been testing the integrum build with retro shooters and it's a no-go. MAME mappings are off. 2nd player only works on a handful of emulators. Scotty Retro's build works a little better with retro shooters imo but still has issues with MAME, and some of the roms don't run as well as on integrum (like time crisis 3, which is washed out on Scotty's build). If you have the retro shooters, after weeks of testing, I think Kris is the only build that will work properly across all games with a 2 player setup.
Now I know why Sinden is appealing with a cabinet. I had to rip mine apart to fit the sensors in. But I love the gun4ir. I just got the Rambo riffle with 24volt recoil, and it rocks. Sinden just does not work well.
@Retro Ralph, This is certainly an impressive image...but I cannot believe that a (or multiple) C&D's haven't been already been issued. I know there is clearly precedent, but selling a fully loaded image has got to be a dubious proposition. Notwithstanding the true legalities: You are correct, the hours upon hours of getting light gun games to run can be absolutely exhausting and this image makes it a VERY straightforward process. Unfortunately, it is only compatible with light guns I do not own. Why no Mayflash Dolphin Bar, AimTrak or Sinden support?! (all of which I own, of course). If Blamcon ever gets to market, then I might just have to drown my integrity and consider this option. All that said, you have provided a great overview and tutorial! Brent
This is much more than a drive with roms. You’re really paying for all the custom code that the creator wrote. This is the biggest effort I’ve seen in making light guns as plug and play as possible. So to me, that’s really what you’re paying for.
Thanks for the review! Two questions: 1.) Is Mame Hooker included and already configured as part of the build? 2.) Could you please confirm if the gun tracking is accurate in Model 2 games such as Virtua Cop and House of the Dead, especially when you get towards the edges of the screen? The M2 emulator is notorious for requiring convoluted manual calibration steps to have accurate tracking in gun games, so I was wondering if any additional calibration is required for M2 games in this build. It would be greatly appreciated if you can cover those points in your upcoming Integrum Retro build review as well. Many thanks!
I'm in on this just because of the Action Max games... I wanted that so badly and got it for Christmas, and BOY was I disappointed. I really need to re-live the pain I felt playing through all of those terrible VHS light gun games.
There’s a lot of games on their list that are either poorly emulated or not at all. Silent Scope 1 & 3, Ghost Squad Evo for Teknoparrot, the list goes on… But looks like a solid build overall.
I have a spare gaming laptop that id love to turn into a gaming cabinet arcade including lightgun games. What kind of PC would i need to get something like this working.
Great Video!!!. What size screen is that? Trying to find out how big should I go. I ordered my guns already and have the Biohazzard build ready to go. I have been looking at Kriscoolmods version. His version looks insanely good.
Ralph have you noticed any freezing or stalls after you close out your gun software when usingthe retro shooters on pc? Mine act up on 2 pc’s at times with the RS guns
Ralph what’s up brother great review video very informative but quick question do the pedals for the retro shooter work on this build ? for games like Time crisis or is everything Configured to the gun and you have to duck by hitting the button on the side of the gun ?
I have, if you go to my original Retro Shooter review I show them off a bit. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-J_Gp5HtfsA0.htmlsi=9voCPIBF2ozYFNEu
Question, i already have LaunchBox with all the games i want. Which gun can i just plug into my pc and just work with LaunchBox and the shooter games i already have?
so I already own the integrum build, and he uses a much lesser quality SSD enclosure. It still wasn't cheap I haven't booted it up in a while but I can't remember if he has a teknoparrot folder, I will have to double check. but this looks like a solid build, but how come no time crisis 4 under tekno? that was a game I was able to setup and play myself. i even ordered a dual pedal thing off ebay for it lol
hey I noticed in the background that you got some pinball covers on your pinball machines. please forward me where ya got them, so I can get me some for my pinball machine....thx
I wanna add light guns but I'm on a 300$ budget so I've been doing as much research as I can but cannot figure out which guns to get. Anyone with some directional input on which to buy let me know
I've been doing alot of research too and am leaning towards retroshooters with the pandoras box to start then upgrade to pc and something like this down the road to get better games
