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kilroy:
The RCA connector is the composite. The coaxial cable is the NTSC and the din connector is the s-video. You can't combine two video signals going into the TV on 2 different inputs. The PS1/2 guns sample use the RCA type connector to sample the composite video. That is to say it splits the signal so that it goes to both the TV and the gun. The gun uses the signal as a reference so it knows where you are pointing the gun.

Incedentally, there are adapters out there to get composite out from the s-video. I think they are like $5 at Rasdio Shack. It's pretty easy to make one but the parts will probably cost you $3-4 so it's not really worth it.

u_rebelscum:

--- Quote from: kilroy on December 22, 2003, 08:58:15 am --- u_rebelscum, please re-read my previous post with regards to the PS2 lightgun and a vga monitor. I very clearly stated I'm NOT using a VGA monitor. I'm using a standard NTSC TV. People keep over looking that fact and it's becoming quite annoying. Especially since that's why I CAN'T use a PC light gun. Like I said that comes across to me that people are very quick to say it can't be done and aren't reading my posts completely.
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First, I knew you don't have a VGA monitor; you have stated that many times. I was listing a bunch of points relevant to this thread, not just your situation. It is relevant because it shows the statements that are frustrating you are partially wrong.

Second, I'm not sure if you read my point, because it is the opposite from everyone else's that you are finding annoying.

The people giving advice to you now, and those that will read this thread for help in the future, should know that it is possible to use some PS2 lightguns on some VGA monitors. When they (and you) say it is impossible, it is not completely correct. For me not to point this out, in a thread that will be readable for years (hopefully) to come, is not responsible of me.

Remember, this is a forum open to the public. These forums currently save their threads "forever". The advice given is not only for you, but everyone else who reads it now and in the future. Any false advice will be saved along with the true. (I know, I've given bad advice before. :-\ )

Finally, that was just one point in eight, and I state at the end it is not important to your situation (err, I don't state it is important to your situation ). I could have included a lot of qualifiers in that point, like "and to the statements that you can't connect PS lightguns to VGA monitors", or "something that is 'known' in this thread is not competely correct", but I felt that was going to be understood and thus unneeded, and too wordly in an already fairly long post. I also did not want to hijack this thread, so tried to keep that point small compaired to the others. Maybe I should have put the qualifiers, but all my posts are usually too long already (look at this one, I meant it to be short and simple, but didn't want to sound like an a--hole, and came up with this).

Sorry if it caused you any frustrations, as it was more aimed at other posts causing your frustrations in the first place.

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