WTF - Sega Menacer working on an LCD flatscreen... How???

Main > Lightguns

<< < (4/7) > >>

Zebra:
Yeah that is interesting. Real light guns do not respond at all if you're not using a crt because they work by using the way a crt updates one line at a time to find the aiming position.

What resolution are you using when you tried it on the plasma? One thing that stops light gun's working even on a crt is scaling to a different resolution or refresh rate to what the console is outputting. This makes testing on a flatscreen difficult immediately as almost all of them will scale to their native pitch.

Do you by chance have another type of flatscreen to try it on? Perhaps an LCD or Oled with a game mode that turns off unnecessary processing.

Also, can you try standing further back to take into account the larger plasma screen size? If it works more like an Aimtrak, I would expect it to jump around if you stood too close.

pbj:
I am gonna laugh ---my bottom--- off if the damned Menacer, of all things, works reliably on a modern TV.

Keep testing.

SlammedNiss:
don't those things use a sensor that plugs into controller port #2?

lilshawn:
there is no way in a million years this works. modern flatscreens update the entire panel with a completed frame all at one time. there is no "drawing" like a CRT. so there is nothing to count to do the tracking with.

similar to the superscope, the only thing the "sensor" does is pick up the button presses and flash pulses transmitted by the gun like an IR remote control... otherwise it would have a cord.

this is why things like the Wii controllers went with camera tracking.

pbj:

--- Quote from: lilshawn on February 10, 2020, 10:07:35 am ---similar to the superscope, the only thing the "sensor" does is pick up the button presses and flash pulses transmitted by the gun like an IR remote control... otherwise it would have a cord.

--- End quote ---

This is completely false. You clearly never used a Menacer.

:cheers:

Navigation

 Message Index

Go to full version