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| Zebra:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on February 11, 2020, 03:34:05 am ---Regardless, it obviously doesn't work with lcd screens or else sega would still be using it. They are the king of light gun games in the arcades these days and yet they use a different system.... there has to be a reason for that. --- End quote --- That's a bit of a leap. Sega couldn't even be bothered to support the Menacer at the time. Their home light gun support has hardly been record-shattering since either. And, they no longer make hardware. It's not like they released a new HD compatible home gun. Hard to say what they might have done. I doubt anyone there is looking to bring back the Menacer though. They've been using the type 2 guns in the arcade since House of the Dead 2 - long before they had to due to the end of CRTs. I can't pretend to understand all of Sega's decisions but anyone who has tried playing HOD 1 on one of their "deluxe" cabs will have a fairly good idea why. I've put money in HOD 1 cabs a number of times but I've never actually been able to play a proper game in the wild. Their light guns never worked very well on the rear projection screens, especially on EGA and above games. Namco solved the issue with those amplified light gun sensor boards and limiting shooters to 480i. Sega obviously went a different route. To be clear, I don't expect the light gun part of a Menacer to work on an LCD. I'm wondering if it also has an accelerometer for games like T2 as the original coin-op used positional guns. Either way, it doesn't work like the Saturn Stunner or the Dreamcast hair dryer. Curiosity makes me one know why. |
| lilshawn:
--- Quote from: Zebra on February 12, 2020, 01:22:41 pm --- To be clear, I don't expect the light gun part of a Menacer to work on an LCD. I'm wondering if it also has an accelerometer for games like T2 as the original coin-op used positional guns. Either way, it doesn't work like the Saturn Stunner or the Dreamcast hair dryer. Curiosity makes me one know why. --- End quote --- an accelerometer? really? still? we are talking 1992 here. 19...92. 28 years ago. about the extent of an accelerometer in commercial products was a mercury or ball bearing tilt type switch. the patent even says the aim of the menacer was to keep cost down. so if they did incorporate one despite the cost of such technology at the time... it would have been stupid expensive. even Nintendo almost couldn't justify spending the cost on them with the wiimotes...and that was like 2006 - 14 years after? the full schematic is right in the patent. i'm telling you, it's an optical light gun... nothing more. the only reason it has real time tracking is because of the ridiculously low overhead of getting tracking information. |
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