Light Guns Aren’t Just for CRTs Anymore

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Light Guns Aren’t Just For CRTs Anymore

For how much of a cultural phenomenon light gun games like Duck Hunt were, they didn’t survive the transition from CRT televisions to LCDs particularly well because of all of the technologica…

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Light Guns Aren’t Just For CRTs Anymore

For how much of a cultural phenomenon light gun games like Duck Hunt were, they didn’t survive the transition from CRT televisions to LCDs particularly well because of all of the technologica…

Hackaday

I'm really tempted to mod another light gun, either a second Guncon 2 or maybe a sleek Gcon 45, and a part of me was thinking I could MAYBE try the #gun4ir... except the fucking thing is closed source, paywalled, and only has a Windows utility for calibration et al.

Meanwhile, the open source Samco project (and the magnificent Prow7's fork of it) handles the settings on the gun itself, and is slightly cheaper to make, so it's more universal and slightly less of a hassle.