As technology trudges forward it sometimes leaves behind a wake of obsolete tech. Like the Nintendo Zapper. The zapper was a light gun that worked with old CRT tvs. It doesn’t generally work with modern tvs though.
Fun post from Nicole Express on how you can, sometimes, get a light gun working on a new tv. There is also a good bit of history and game nostalgia worth checking out!
You can still play Wild Gunman! The GAME A mode, anyways. It turns out this doesn’t actually go through the dance above; there’s only one thing on screen. It just checks your timing. But be warned; you can still lose!
But what if you want to play a better different lightgun game? Even the other game modes on Wild Gunman won’t work like this.
Here’s the clever thing. While your television is definitely displaying the screen late, if it’s a decent scaler, the lag is going to be constant. If it’s constant, it can be predicted. If it can be predicted, the game can be reprogrammed to wait that long.
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