bobbydilley
Grand Master
Hi,
I was wondering if anyone knew much about the different types of Arcade light gun. As I am aware there are 3 main types (not including analogue joystick type guns):
CRT guns (Like used on HOTD1 and Time Crisis 1)
IR LEDS on screen and camera in gun (Used on things like Confidential Mission, and most modern games)
IR Laser in gun, and camera pointing at screen (Used on Crisis Zone, and I think others possibly Vampire Night? unsure if this is what the RAYS pcb is for)
I'm really interested in the final type, the 'IR Laser in gun, and camera pointing at screen', as it would be super easy to implement using a Wii Remote for tracking and a cheep IR Laser module to put into a gun.
The only issue I'm having, is the slight worry of using an IR laser, and was wondering if anyone owned a Crisis Zone, or another game that worked in this way and knew what power of IR laser was used in the guns, or if it was simply an IR LED with some lens to focus it? I'd be very surprised if Sega actually included a laser in the gun that could damage eyes, but I've yet to find one online thats less than 30mw.
For those interested the benefits of this project would be:
- Gun could easily be wireless with only the laser, a switch and a battery in the gun
- The accuracy would be better, and processing quicker as it would only have to track 1 dot, instead of tracking either 2/4/6/8 dots and computing some position using complex calculations.
- Could be done with a Wii Remote and cheep parts.
- Would fit in well with my JVSEmulator project, and allow accurate light gun play on real arcade hardware with projectors etc.
Cheers in advance for any advice / help,
Bobby
I was wondering if anyone knew much about the different types of Arcade light gun. As I am aware there are 3 main types (not including analogue joystick type guns):
CRT guns (Like used on HOTD1 and Time Crisis 1)
IR LEDS on screen and camera in gun (Used on things like Confidential Mission, and most modern games)
IR Laser in gun, and camera pointing at screen (Used on Crisis Zone, and I think others possibly Vampire Night? unsure if this is what the RAYS pcb is for)
I'm really interested in the final type, the 'IR Laser in gun, and camera pointing at screen', as it would be super easy to implement using a Wii Remote for tracking and a cheep IR Laser module to put into a gun.
The only issue I'm having, is the slight worry of using an IR laser, and was wondering if anyone owned a Crisis Zone, or another game that worked in this way and knew what power of IR laser was used in the guns, or if it was simply an IR LED with some lens to focus it? I'd be very surprised if Sega actually included a laser in the gun that could damage eyes, but I've yet to find one online thats less than 30mw.
For those interested the benefits of this project would be:
- Gun could easily be wireless with only the laser, a switch and a battery in the gun
- The accuracy would be better, and processing quicker as it would only have to track 1 dot, instead of tracking either 2/4/6/8 dots and computing some position using complex calculations.
- Could be done with a Wii Remote and cheep parts.
- Would fit in well with my JVSEmulator project, and allow accurate light gun play on real arcade hardware with projectors etc.
Cheers in advance for any advice / help,
Bobby