Virtua Cop 3 on original XBox with EMS Top Gun 3

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Zebra:

--- Quote from: 2huwman on October 13, 2019, 04:54:10 pm ---At the moment, VC3 will only output via the component cables, so you'd need a CRT that would accept 480p. There aren't many of them and I don't have one. Some of the Sony BVMs do. Even then I'm not sure if it would work with a normal XBOX lightgun, or if you'd need an EMS Topgun or similar IR gun anyway.

Ghost Squad does work on a 128mb XBOX with some fixes applied, and that does display on a normal CRT. However, the gun doesn't work properly. There's a whole thread on it here:

https://assemblergames.com/threads/chihiro-on-xbox.26483/

It will tell you pretty much everything you need to know about Chihiro on XBOX.

At the moment, the CXBX emulator is the best way to play VC3 with a lightgun. It's a really good game.

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If the only issue was finding a 480p crt then the problem would be easy to solve. I run a pair of tri-sync crt arcade monitors and just about any crt pc monitor supports 480p. You'd just need a component to rgb transcoder. But, I'm not sure that is the main issue for light gun support.

The original arcade cabs of Ghost Squad and virtua cop 3 don't use real light guns. They use CCD / IR guns and you usually can't use real light guns on any game on any console if they are not specifically designed with light gun support. Even then, it sometimes has to be a specific type of light gun (e.g. Guncon 2 games only work with Guncon 2 light guns).

I've read that none of the Xbox real light guns work Virtua Cop 3 and I assume Ghost Squad would be the same. Apparently the Sinden gun will work but that is by design.

For now, playing those games through emulators probably makes most sense, as you said. Emulators are usually set up for gun game controls to be mapped to a regular mouse or analog stick. There are a number of IR and real light guns that can work as a mouse or analog stick. Also, emulators usually offer a little more flexibility with button mapping which would be helpful for VC3 ES mode.

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