Anyone ever mod an Op. Wolf?

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I was thinking of taking off the front part, where the gun sits, and making a front, and tether the uzi and have it in a holster.

Opinions? I figure op wolfs are almost a dime a dozen and the cab is pretty trashed. I think it would be pretty cool. Smaller footprint too.
 
Operation Wolf's aren't truly "light gun" games. The gun is basically a big joystick. You can't do what you're suggesting.
 
Yeah the hardware/mounting post at the base of the gun is basically a joystick.
 
Couldn't he buy a cheap ass light gun use the parts and modify the uzi to make it a light gun?

The game software is designed around a "joystick type" controller. Unless he could hack in to the code and add lightgun support... ;)

EDIT: The other option would be to MAME the cabinet...:eek:
 
why not enough room in the uzi It's been years since i have seen one up close.

Edit ah wait I see I was thinking he wanted to change the cabinet to another game that used a light gun.
 
Operation wolf uses a mounted light gun...
KLOV is wrong... Check the manual.

There was a kit to change out operation wolf with Steel Gunner, but that kit had positional joysticks.
 
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I admire the 71's strive to try something different on an otherwise useless cabinet for him. My buddy has a spare Space Gun cab which is pretty much ruined now, but for a while I had contemplated running it as a two-player multi shooter mame. Then reality hit me.
 
If you get a pair of positional sticks, can't go wrong with Beast Busters.
 
I could have sworn Operation Wolf was a light gun. I happened to own a gun for a long time that I had no use for and it looked like an optical gun.

It would probably be pretty fun to hold that shaking gun in your hands like an Uzi as you're playing.
 
Might not be much help in but I found a few pics showing the guts of the Uzi on arcadefever.net.
http://www.arcadefever.net/operatio-wolf-gun-repair.html

I'm not sure of how the wiring is bundled/snaked or harnessed thru the base unit but it seems with some possible extensions it's probably doable with some hollow cable and some cosmetic modding of the Uzi's "ammo clip" neck.
You could probably store the gun sideways against the new front panel using some decent looking black rubber or foam coated storage type hooks. Sort of like a gun rack.
I doubt one of the HAPP type holsters would hold the Uzi.
 
Mounted light guns? Strange... well hell, what the OP suggested just might be interesting.

I think they went with a mounted gun because of the size of the guns, as well as for the recoil effect. Let's face it, it was the gun that sold that game.

I also don't think that anybody was using positional analogs on video games in 1987.
 
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I think it should be possible. You will need a new home for the start button that is part of the gun assy. I don't think the Coin Controls coin box will clear the monitor if you scoot it in that far, so you may be in trouble if you want to run quarters. The light gun is definitely optical, as already noted. All of the wiring passes down through a small hole underneath the gun assy--nothing special. Besides the start button, the only other thing in the base assy are springs, bearings, and stops, so no problems there.
 
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