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Playstation 2 + Gun Games
leapinlew:
I'm thinking of buying a PS2, a couple Guncons and a few titles for the PS2. Anyone here have experience with PS2 lightgun games? Are they good? Specifically Point Blank.
Any gun game recommendations?
sk8ersublime:
What type of screen do you have? CRT TV- Guncon will be ok. LCD or Arcade Monitor or PC monitor they will not work right out of the box...
My suggestion is to get an LCD gun, basically Wiimotes....I have a TopGun II no issues with it on my PS2.
The games I play
Time Crisis 2 or 3? cant remember they are both good tho...
Vampire Night is a fun one too.
You could go dreamcast and get Confidential Mission, and the House of the Dead series and there are some others too :)
DJ_Izumi:
It's pretty good but you'd want both Guncon 1 and Guncon 2s. Personally I prefer Namco's offical guns, I've tried various third party ones and they were either poorly constructed, uncomfortable or otherwise unrelaible. Namco's own products on the other hand work great.
The Guncon 1 works for the majority of PS1 games, with a notable exclusion being the PS1 port of Area 51 which predates the Guncon 1 and thusly needs a Konami Justifier. (This is the only reason I really have third party PS1 guns in addition to the offical products) But Point Blank 1, 2 and 3 are all great on the PS2 and the PS2 adds the feature of component output so you can get some damn good visuals on a nice component input CRT TV. I'm always a fan of the 2000 era Sony Trinitron's myself.
On the PS2 front you have the Guncon 2 and a decent selection of games released in North America. Time Crisis 2, Time Crisis 3, Crisis Zone, Ninja Assault, and Vampire Knight. There's also Endgame but it's really a generic feeling Time Crisis clone. (There are more availble for Europe/Japan) Time Crisis 2, 3 and Crisis Zone also have the feater of supporting the DualShock2 in ADDITION to the Guncon 2 where every button on the DS2 acts as a duck button. You could effectively hack two DS2s into being duck pedals like see in the arcades.
A few PS2 games also support the Guncon 1, Vampire Night, Endgame and Time Crisis 2.
Some of my setups running at an anime con:
severdhed:
I am gathering the components required to do this as well(if i can ever convince my wife to give me the OK). i don't have any of the PS1 gun games, so i don't know how they are. i do however have Time Crisis 2, Time Crisis 3, Crisis Zone, and Vampire NIght. i haven't played crisis zone yet(just bought it a few days ago) but the others work well and are alot of fun. out of the ones i have, vampire night gets played the most because of the 2 player mode. Im not sure about crisis zone, but time crisis 2 and 3 are only 1 player...they do have a 2 player mode, but it requires two TVs, to PS2s and two copies of the game and some kind of special cable to link the ps2s together (im assuming it is a mini firewire cable, and this only works with the old style ps2 units)
the ps2 controller as a reload pedel is pretty cool too. i hacked an old ps2 controller to add a 1/8" mono minijack to one of the button inputs, so i could connect an old pedal i had lying around from my sega saturn gun.
like everyone esle said, you will pretty much need a CRT TV to get it up and running...preferably one with component video inputs.
DJ_Izumi:
--- Quote from: severdhed on May 11, 2010, 09:59:21 am ---Im not sure about crisis zone, but time crisis 2 and 3 are only 1 player...they do have a 2 player mode, but it requires two TVs, to PS2s and two copies of the game and some kind of special cable to link the ps2s together (im assuming it is a mini firewire cable, and this only works with the old style ps2 units)
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Not entirely true! While this mode does exist (In my photo you can even see a white firewire cable linking the two PS2's, though it's not in use at the time the photo was taken) Time Crisis 2 and 3 also have split screen mode! Basically two 4:3 windows are squeezed into the frame with a lot of letter boxing at the top and bottom. The obvious downside of this is that you're playing in squinto-vision, akin to playing four player Goldeneye 64. Not so bad if you have a large TV on s-video or component though. But you certianly can do two player on TC2 and TC3 without using iLink. Crisis Zone on the other hand is entirely single player and it had no multiplayer in the arcades even.
Ninja Assault from Namco is on PS2 though and it also offers two player play much like Vampire Night does.
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