Guncon 2 + HDTV = possible?
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It depends on what kind of TV you have. If it's a non-CRT display (e.g. LCD, plasma, DLP), you're SOL. If it's a CRT display (either direct view or projection), it will probably work as long as your TV can display 480i or 480p. Some CRT HDTVs like the Wega upconvert 480i/p sources to non-standard resolutions such as 960i, so they won't work either.
BlackClouds
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Yep, and for those calling for Sega, Namco and others to start putting out more light gun games need to rethink their position. I'd not release any of those games until there's a gun that works with 99% of the tv's out there. Playing gun games with the controller isn't that much fun.
guns work by reading the scan line the electron gun was at when the trigger was pulled. because non-crt's don't scan the guns don't work properly with them.
as for getting a system that works with ALL types of TV's, it would be hard. it would probably be required to be a photo recognition system that would be able to interpret textures and whatnot and gauge if what was shot at at that second was an active target.. or something like that.. off the top of my head.
as for getting a system that works with ALL types of TV's, it would be hard. it would probably be required to be a photo recognition system that would be able to interpret textures and whatnot and gauge if what was shot at at that second was an active target.. or something like that.. off the top of my head.
Eventually it will be a large proportion - likely in the lifetime of the next generation. CRTs are being phased out for larger screens, and the kinds of people that shell out for plasmas/Rear pro are the sort that pay big money for launch consoles.
I don't think they need complex technology. Arcades have had Rearpro compatible guns for a while, and also some that don't use flashing screens. Maybe some kind of receiver near the TV that receives an IR beam from the gun and works out positioning based on the timing of the beam?
I don't think they need complex technology. Arcades have had Rearpro compatible guns for a while, and also some that don't use flashing screens. Maybe some kind of receiver near the TV that receives an IR beam from the gun and works out positioning based on the timing of the beam?
I assume you mean most people watch standard def TV?ArcadeStickMonk
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What about actually drawing some sort of funky grid that only lightguns and dogs can see?borghe said:
ArcadeStickMonk
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like the game actually draws it's own grid onscreen for tracking, but it's done in such a way as to be invisible to our eyes.
I dunno, I'm just BSin' along with ya
I dunno, I'm just BSin' along with ya
lol.. no, I was being serious.. technically you could do something (similar to eyetoy) where it is actually looking at the screen and then doing say pattern recognition on all available textures on the model or just general image recognition on the model or something, and then scores a hit based on that.
the posters here are right. eventually electron scanning on crt's will go away completely and we will be on fixed pixel displays... gun games will either need to adapt or die. out of all available methods to get a gun game to work (short of loading it with real bullets) image/pattern recognition is all I can think of.
the posters here are right. eventually electron scanning on crt's will go away completely and we will be on fixed pixel displays... gun games will either need to adapt or die. out of all available methods to get a gun game to work (short of loading it with real bullets) image/pattern recognition is all I can think of.