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| johnm:
Thanks Howard, yeah I was thinking more along the lines of PS1, PS2, Dreamcast and OGXbox where most, if not all games would have a joystick control option. I think that with Sinden on the Horizon people are just waiting to see what it's like or if we can make our own, from what I'm aware it needs other software running so that makes it a no go for older sytems but this with the arduino could make it perfect for those wanting to play their old games on an LCD |
| lightgungamer:
--- Quote from: johnm on August 22, 2019, 04:41:17 am --- Thanks Howard, yeah I was thinking more along the lines of PS1, PS2, Dreamcast and OGXbox where most, if not all games would have a joystick control option. I think that with Sinden on the Horizon people are just waiting to see what it's like or if we can make our own, from what I'm aware it needs other software running so that makes it a no go for older sytems but this with the arduino could make it perfect for those wanting to play their old games on an LCD --- End quote --- Andy , the creator of the Sinden Lightgun had demoed a poc bit of hardware using a pi that works with ps1 and ps2. I think he said it would theoretically work with other consoles. I would have thought that this gun(Samco) would be able to work with the ps2 as the aim track gun that works in a similar way does, at least with some games. You can also play pretty much all the old Lightgun games using an emulator but were you more interested in using the original hardware? |
| johnm:
I was under the impression that there was extra software running on top of the emulator(the white border) so dont know how that would be replicated on other consoles. I still have my saturn and dreamcast consoles along with guns and a CRT, digging them out to set up would be a pain though so anything I do would be on the PC/RPI. There is a market out there though for the consoles I mentioned before, people are spending quite a few pennies for usb/sd , psu and HDMI mods for the likes of Dreamcast and there's also a guy who converts dreamcast guns to work on lcd and are bluetooth. I believe there is a market there for something like this where someone just needs to flash a firmware to get it to work on another console |
| lightgungamer:
I think the Sinden mod adds the border using an OSSC chip as well as handling the output. I could be wrong. Here’s the video of the mod. http://www.sindenlightgun.com/blog/playstation-1-and-2-original-console-sinden-lightgun-support/ |
| Howard_Casto:
I would also point out that most (not all) light gun games from the newer systems are ports of arcade games that are already emulated. If anything a gun solution for older systems is what's needed... if you insist on playing on original hardware anyway. For me anyway I would want to setup a small dedicated light gun pc that could just be pulled out and plugged up to the tv when I want to play those games. Every game would just be on there ready to go. I mention this because you have to remember that most consoles have 15-20 gun games on them max..... you'll probably only want to play one or two of them. It's really not worth it swapping around cables and ect. |
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