oh man lucky and wild! i have that running on and emulator, but setting it up is a bitch 3 guns and 1 wheel, could be done i guess.

it'd never see release unless it was bright pink.

Webbins wrote:

Best answers I can find are that it is due to refresh rates of modern LCDs and their latency in displaying the millisecond hit box which then registers with the lightgun. There may be a more definitive answer out there though.

That's essentially it. Remember when the screen used to flash when you tried to shoot something?
What was happening, was that the screen went black, and replaced all targets with high contrast white squares.

At the very same time, the light gun itself flashes a narrow range light sensor at the screen. If the light sensor lines up with one of those high contrast bounding boxes, then you register a hit (I think the "definitive" NES version might actually attempt to register hits on the "dark" sections of the screen instead, but I'm just guessing here). There's a little more to it, but that's the general idea.

Apparently, you can flake out old implementations by aiming the light gun at any high contrast source of light... Like a lightbulb, or lamp...

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As LCD screens refresh rates lag to a certain degree (I don't know as much about that side of things), it's impossible to sync the light sensor on the gun. Modern implementations of the lightgun scheme based on the Wii-mote are no where near as accurate (it's no better than playing with an analogue stick, or a mouse). But there are other schemes...

A laser pointer and camera might work... But ultimately would be less efficient than the CRT and light sensor scheme, as the computer would need to keep a running record of the screens' prior state(s) from frame to frame.

acemuzzy wrote:

Point Break or whatever it was called was good for a giggle. I've never been clear how light guns worked and why they don't on lcd/plasma. Someone Google me details pls im in the bath and feeling lazy thanx

U r welcum.

Tempy wrote:

'Restrictions on gaming'?

Sorry tempy badly worded. I basically meant the scrutiny gaming is under from the media in terms of kids hooting each other.

If the market was still there, they'd just do a Nintendo and make sure the gun didn't look at all like a real gun. I suspect though that there isn't enough demand for these now, even if you could overcome the technical problems.

Yossarian wrote:

'Hooting each other?'

Yeah with hond guns

Lol