Dreamcast lightgun question

fro · Post by **fro** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 6:55 pm 0

Do they work ok on LCD TVs?

fog · Post by **fog** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 8:44 pm 0

fro wrote:Do they work ok on LCD TVs?

Do any lightguns work with LCD's ?

Alarm · Post by **Alarm** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 9:03 pm 0

Dunno.

fro · Post by **fro** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 9:36 pm 0

fog wrote:
fro wrote:Do they work ok on LCD TVs?
Do any lightguns work with LCD's ?

No idea, I've never looked into this before.

I'm guessing the new PS3 one will have to though.

trezzer · Post by **trezzer** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 1:04 pm 0

I don't think there are any on Dreamcasts that even work with anything but 50/60Hz TVs - and none that work with LCDs or projectors. Sadly.

Jonesey · Post by **Jonesey** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 1:32 pm 0

They're shyte, anyway. Calibrating them on my old CRT was a friggin' nightmare - S-video, RGB - forget it. They only liked the RF input and even then the reticule was all over the shop.

WiteWulf · Post by **WiteWulf** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 9:34 am 0

No, they don't work on LCDs or 100Hz CRTs, only 50/60Hz CRTs.

juice · Post by **juice** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 12:46 pm 0

Old-style lightguns work by detecting the position of the electron beam as it sweeps across the screen - they're effectively cameras which watch for a specific "spot". So they'll only worth with CRT TVs.

The Wii uses that lil sensor bar thingy to get around this: assuming it's not been patented to smeg and back, I'd expect to see non-Wii hardware using a similar solution.

As for the Dreamcast: sorry, but it's a no-go!

Wikipedia has the details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_gun

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