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Geek Culture / Master System light phaser

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data 98junkiee
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Posted: 29th Oct 2011 00:19
I got a Sega Light Phaser as part of a Master System Bundle on eBay. I have an LCD television and as most on here will have guessed it doesn't work. I think this is due to the gun relying on the specific frequency and picture resolution of a CRT (but I could be wrong). Any ideas of what to do with this gun (it seems a shame to have to get rid of such a cool looking thing)

Also I found that while firing the gun at the television doesn't work firing the gun at the light fitting does register as a shot (presumably due to the 50hz flicker of the lightbulb)
Blobby 101
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Posted: 29th Oct 2011 02:29
I thought it was simply due to older CRTs having glass fronted screens so they reflected the beam back at the gun, registering a shot. LCDs tend to have matt finish and so don't reflect.

data 98junkiee
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Posted: 29th Oct 2011 03:06
So if I put a piece of glass on my display it would work?
Benjamin
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Posted: 29th Oct 2011 04:32
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_gun



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JLMoondog
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Posted: 29th Oct 2011 05:07
That's why I still have my 32" tube in my game room. Got all the good systems hooked up to it.

data 98junkiee
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Posted: 29th Oct 2011 13:46
Quote: "When the player pulls the trigger, the computer (often assisted by the display circuitry) times how long it takes the electron beam to excite the phosphor at the location at which the gun is pointed. The light gun sends a signal after sensing the sudden small change in brightness of a point on the screen when the electron gun refreshes that spot. The computer then calculates the targeted position based on the monitor's horizontal refresh rate (the fixed amount of time it takes the beam to get from the left to right side of the screen). Either the computer provides a time base for the horizontal refresh rate through the controller's connector (as in the Super Scope), or the gun reads the composite video signal through a T-connector on the A/V cable (as in the GunCon 2). Once the computer knows where the gun is pointed, it can tell through collision detection if it coincides with the target or not."


Quote: "Display timing is useless with plasma, LCD, and DLP, which refresh all pixels at the same time."


Sounds like its not as simple as placing a pane of glass in front of the screen

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