03 February 2023, 15:08 | #1 |
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Sega Lightgun In WinUAE
Has anyone used lightguns in WinUAE?
I have a Sega Master System gun and a few usb to db9 adaptors and am curious to give it a try. The adaptors work fine using joysticks. Currently in the process of doing a big rearrangement of things so will wait until that's done to get back into playing around with computer gear, but in the meantime was just wondering if it's likely to work. Thanks in advance. |
03 February 2023, 17:19 | #2 |
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The Master System Light Phaser works similarly to the Amiga's light gun/pen interface, but has a different pin-out than on the Amiga. Also, since they depend on detecting when a CRT's electron beam scans in front of the gun/pen, a real gun connected via an adaptor isn't really going to work under emulation.
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03 February 2023, 19:46 | #3 |
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It's not a simple wire through type adaptor. It's uses a microcontroller as well. Both Amiga joysticks and Megadrive pads work fine with it.
Im also outputting to a crt display. |
03 February 2023, 20:54 | #4 |
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No, it is not going to work. (I guess in theory it could be made to work in lagless vsync mode but I expect horribly bad horizontal accuracy)
USB lightguns do work. |
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04 February 2023, 01:05 | #6 |
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Original Lightguns are claimed to work fine with MiSTer FPGA, but only on CRT monitor.
I guess WinUAE adds several layers of lags, so it's not that easy with software emulation on Windows. |
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04 February 2023, 03:16 | #8 |
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That's a shame.
It works in MAME, so I was hopeful it'd work with WinUAE too. Thanks for the responses though. |
05 February 2023, 13:37 | #9 |
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I'll probably buy a Sinden Lightgun® in the future for MAME games... Will it work with WinUAE (I have g-sync and freesync monitors)? If yes, is there a list of lightgun supporting games for the Amiga?
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05 February 2023, 14:23 | #11 |
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Perfect, thank you.
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05 February 2023, 15:38 | #12 |
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Apparently there's also patched versions of Operation Wolf and Operation Thunderbolt on Amiga that support lightguns.
Ive not seen it myself, but there's a video on the Retro Man Cave Youtube channel about lightguns on Amiga and he mentions it there. If memory serves correctly he said he learned about it here at EAB. P.O.W and Capone by Actionware are other lightgun titles that support lightguns that aren't in the H.O.L list. |
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I checked the video and added several other games to the list. I can't find the thread about the Operation games here on EAB, but maybe somebody else can link it. Last edited by TCD; 05 February 2023 at 16:05. |
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At least Aimtrak lightgun is confirmed working with WinUAE. It should work with any USB HID pointing device that returns absolute coordinates. |
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05 February 2023, 20:29 | #15 |
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Sinden is different: uses a border white overlay to delimit microcam area but I think it should work if it does for MAME and other emulators...
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