24th March 2005, 2:38 PM
They already RELEASED the Game Ax lazy :D.
Lazy, you should know that the TV does NOT read the motions of the light gun. It's physically impossible for it to work that way, at all. The gun reads the flashes of light the TV shoots out. Every time you click, the entire screen flashes white except for the targets, which flash in the form of a box. I haven't been able to actually see it myself, but somehow the individual targets flash slightly differently from each other. The gun doesn't send out any light at all. It has a camera built into the barrel.
Anyway, I've had to give this speech a number of times as it's a very common misconception, but not only can the TV not read anything from the outside, it's not designed to send data back to the NES anyway. It's only designed to RECIEVE signals.
That said, the question is, is the image clear enough for the light gun to see it properly? Well, probably so, but really I have to know if the image is large enough. You may have to hold the gun right UP to the screen.
Oh yes, whether you get this, a Game Ax, or the other 5000 illegal clones of the NES floating around out there, well, with portability I think, the important thing is to make sure the hardware is designed to the exact standards of the NES. Reverse engineering is tricky, but the NES has been around forever and it's pretty simple, so I would assume there's no real risk.
Lazy, you should know that the TV does NOT read the motions of the light gun. It's physically impossible for it to work that way, at all. The gun reads the flashes of light the TV shoots out. Every time you click, the entire screen flashes white except for the targets, which flash in the form of a box. I haven't been able to actually see it myself, but somehow the individual targets flash slightly differently from each other. The gun doesn't send out any light at all. It has a camera built into the barrel.
Anyway, I've had to give this speech a number of times as it's a very common misconception, but not only can the TV not read anything from the outside, it's not designed to send data back to the NES anyway. It's only designed to RECIEVE signals.
That said, the question is, is the image clear enough for the light gun to see it properly? Well, probably so, but really I have to know if the image is large enough. You may have to hold the gun right UP to the screen.
Oh yes, whether you get this, a Game Ax, or the other 5000 illegal clones of the NES floating around out there, well, with portability I think, the important thing is to make sure the hardware is designed to the exact standards of the NES. Reverse engineering is tricky, but the NES has been around forever and it's pretty simple, so I would assume there's no real risk.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)