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Light guns and LCD screens
Veto:
This has probably been discussed already but are there any light guns that work with flat panel LCD monitors? Light gun games suck with a trackball. :)
shmokes:
I'm pretty sure that the answer to the question, "Are there any light guns that work, period?" is: Yes, the Act-Labs USB light gun (and next month the TV-out version) is the only light gun that can honestly be said to realistically work period.
That said, the ACT-Labs USB light gun (and next month the TV-out version) does not work with an LCD panel.
In other words, you're out of luck.
I'd love it if someone comes in, though, and says, "Shmokes is full of it, they work fine with LCD flat panel displays."
anthony691:
Shmokes is full of it, they work fine with LCD flat panel displays!
That's what I would say if they did work on a LCD, but they don't; sorry.
Moebius:
Light guns work by tracing the electron beam on a monitor/tv. With precise timing, yo can tell when a light gun is looking exactly at the beam, and in turn, whether the gun is pointing exactly at the beam/alien/zombie.
LCD's can't support this, because they don't have a beam. They update the entire panel at the same time, so no beam to find out where the gun is pointing at.
AFAIK, Plasma screens work with the same principles as an LCD screen. The current monitors/TVs could be the last generation of lightgun-compatible equipment, perhaps?
Moebius
paigeoliver:
I don't think CRTs are going away anytime soon. Don't all LCD based displays suffer from a pretty low refresh rate? My laptop panel is like skip city, even when it is running something at 60 frames per second.