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On Lightguns and the Compatibility thereof

post #1 of 4
9/22/08 at 7:34pm
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So, I'm at wit's end trying to get my Dreamcast Lightguns to work. They are the Mad Catz blasters. They worked just fine on an old CRTV (which I no longer have), but I can't get them to work on either of my HDTV, rear projection, television. I realize there is no chance of them working on my LCD screen.

Sometimes shots seem to register, sometimes not. Despite my efforts to find an answer on the intertron, I can't find a definitive yea or nay. At this point I'm assuming they aren't compatible with rear projection HDTVs, but anyone know for sure?
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post #2 of 4
9/22/08 at 11:17pm
Pretty sure light guns don't work on any sort of projection TV. I've tried them on a couple in the past. Sorry.

Wii gun games work fine, though.
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post #3 of 4
9/23/08 at 1:56am
I don't know about rear-projection HDTVs but my lightguns have always worked on a rear-projection SDTV. I don't remember the brand of Dreamcast gun I had, though. It was dreamcast-grey with an orange trigger and had an expansion slot for the rumble pack on the rear of the slide. I had the Namco Guncon 1 for PS1.
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post #4 of 4
9/23/08 at 8:15am
It's all about the refresh rate. Newer TVs refresh too fast for the guns - it's nothing to do with whether its rear projection or not, you just need to find a 50Htz (I think 60 was when the problems first started cropping up)

There's no fix for it either, especially aged ones.
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