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I don't think so. But it's just a guess. I am still waiting for a cable to play may actual VHS and right now I play on YouTube videos with mediocre results.

The light will be out as default. If you hit a target it will be turned on (red color) for about 0.8 seconds and a voice will sound from the speaker telling you "target hit". If you hear no voice, it's normal to have the light off.

No matter if this is the real deal or not: It will work. I am 100 % sure. The other thing is you trying to play on a LCD. I am not sure whether this will work. I am skeptical. Please keep us informed.

When I pause it it still looks pretty. I walked through the footage frame by frame and everything looked nice. Ok, thanks. I will see. I wish to make my own attempt in digitizing the footage anyway =) You are welcome =)

Update: The new potentiometer is inserted. If at all it's just slightly better. But I don't regret opening it. It was kind of funny. And I like the photos. I assume the problem is the video. Bubba's Buck Blastin' still doesn't give a single hit and Pops Ghostly just a few... But I think I have an Idea what is wrong. I play Bubba's Buck Blastin' on a PAL Xbox. Pops Ghostly I have as a YouTube rip. I assume I encounter frame rate issues. In the near future I will be able to digitize my VHS and/or John will come up to send me the DVD collection.

Sega Game Gear had 9 VDC, but it randomly swapped center polarity it seems. Some are center positive, others are not... Japanese NES and SNES have 9 VDC with center negative. I would guess that north American systems did as well, but I can't look that up, as I solely have Japanese systems. You might be able to rewire. Personally I buy cheap DC adapters from China with ebay. Measure the polarity and change if necessary. It's somewhat in the 5 USD range shipped.

VCR to Action Max is a RCA to 3.5 mm TRS cable. What it does is it copies the audio from the VRC and gives it to the Action Max in order to be able to output it via head phones or internal speaker. So honestly that one is not necessary, as long as your TV is able to make sounds & you are not playing with head phones. It would be more interesting if you tried to record game play footage. But I would do this in an emulator anyway in order to get the red light. AC adapter is 9 VDC, center positive. I use 1 A to be sure it has enough breath but it doesn't need more than 500 mA theoretically.

I made you a picture. I wanted to take a photo anyways as I am going to do videos about the system and its games on my Light Gun themed YouTube channel. This is before I took out the lower right potentiometer. The speaker can also be seen on the picture LM3900 is an amplifier, LM386 amplifies just the audio (preamp). The audio power amp is the 3860 JRC 7550. The special chip by WOW will remain a mystery... I assume it's the place where for example the audio is saved. The cool thing is, that this WOW chip is a totally different one in PAL systems. EDIT: I am wrong with the storage assumption. I think the storage is in IC 2: the strange aligned and glue swallowed IC.

I now opened the console to take a look at the potentiometer. It's a B100K linear potentiometer with pads placed in a round arrangement. Opening the Action Max is not super easy as the channels in which the Phillips 2 screws are placed are really narrow and really long. Luckily I had a cheap Chinese screwdriver which is considerable thinner than normal screwdrivers. Just like in the gun itself you will find lots of glue. But it looks ok. It's nothing unprofessional or so, but you can see that WOW is a more of a toy manufacturer than a electronics giant. I will keep the forum informed whether it was the potentiometers fault or not. The exact form factor of potetniometer was not in stock in my storage so I ordered a new one to try.

The WOW games run quite ok. When using Bubba's Buck Blastin' I never succeeded in making a hit. But again: It could be bad luck with my potentiometer. Also a funny thing: Bubba's Buck Blastin' doesn't run on every DVD player. For example: The PS2 will generate a picture tilted to the green spectrum. Wii and Xbox handle it fine though. And also I had to re-rip the disc. The orginal disc did stutter on every player I tried it on. Edit: All my devices are connected via RGB mostly with CSYNC as sync.

Thanks a lot! I happen to have a bag full of potentiometers... i might open the unit to see if I have a similar one to swap it out

Hello I am aware that in this forum are quite some Action Max friends. I have trouble setting mine up. What worked best for me is: (after several hours of trying) - contrast set to maximum - brightness kind of low. Like a quarter of maximum - distance: about 40 cm from screen (so really near) - distance wheel: about in half. 10:30 o'clock - I switch out the light of the room I am in What do you do? Can you do a consecutive series of hits? Or will it just hit sporadically? With kind regards Ben

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Hello atari2600land I am sorry I am late for answering I was cooking dinner :-S But I am really glad it worked =) I am going to PM you concerning the payment.

What kind of OS do you have? For Windows Systems: For example my Notebook came with Power2Go. But really every burn software of Cyberlink can do it.... Than to go for some freeware: Ashampoo Burning Studio 2014 can do it for sure. I assume all other iterations can do it as well. CDBurnerXP seems to do the job too (set to data disc) Furthermore I assume the free Nero Version will do it to. I don't like Nero though Basically most dedicated burn software can do this task. I am sorry if I sound snobby or so. I am a bit confused. I really want to help you and not annoy you. Maybe you are looking at the wrong spot: You don't need to find programs to make ISOs of your DVD, or rip them. You just need to find software to simply copy DVD discs.

Is it a DVD5? If so, you can simply copy it. Even if it was a DVD9 the price for blanks dropped to around 2 USD. As your DVD is self made it doesn't have any shitty copy protection and you are good to go. Concerning the old PC: Do you still have it?

Do you suggest this to give the footage the VHS look by doing so? I think I would prefer the normal DVD if you could copy it.

Hello John, are you still making these? I really would love to have one =)

Hello atari2600land Did I understand right: at the Moment just bubba's buck blastin' is finished? I have a question concerning Nightmare Nemesis: Do you still have your old broken computer? Is it a laptop or a desktop PC? Do you know what's broken? I have tools to read out most internal storage media. I recover data for myself, family and friends. Soon I will order a copy of Bubba. Would you be willing to put the hard drive to it, together with a description where the data for the game should be laying around? I might be able to retrieve it. I can't make promises though.