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Also known as "things in gaming that piss me off: the thread".
So as some of you know, I'm an avid old school gamer. Right now my wall o' systems has a NES, Genesis/Sega CD, Dreamcast, Nintendo 64, GameCube, PS2, Wii, and 360. Modern technology only made gaming better, right? Well for the most part, yes. But there's one big exception.
The NES Zapper doesn't work on modern TVs. That is bull shit.
It's not for the reason most people think, either. The common myths usually center around the Zapper using the red/blue/green guns of an old CRT TV to work and that's why they don't work on a modern LCD TV. The actual reason centers around resolution. Modern HDTVs have a resolution of (at least) 1280x720, while the NES has a native resolution of about 256x240. The problem occurs when HDTVs use a few extra milliseconds of processing time to downscale the image, and it causes light gun peripherals like the NES Zapper to not be able to lock onto the targets on the screen. It's also the reason why some people claim some NES games have a small amount of lag in the control response when played on a HDTV.
What sucks is there's really no way around it. There are devices out that cut down the extra processing time, but because light gun peripherals are designed to work in 1/60th of a second, even one extra millisecond will ensure it won't work properly. Who would have thought modern TVs would reach the point they can't handle technology from 1985?
That my friends is BS.
Also known as "things in gaming that piss me off: the thread".
So as some of you know, I'm an avid old school gamer. Right now my wall o' systems has a NES, Genesis/Sega CD, Dreamcast, Nintendo 64, GameCube, PS2, Wii, and 360. Modern technology only made gaming better, right? Well for the most part, yes. But there's one big exception.
The NES Zapper doesn't work on modern TVs. That is bull shit.
It's not for the reason most people think, either. The common myths usually center around the Zapper using the red/blue/green guns of an old CRT TV to work and that's why they don't work on a modern LCD TV. The actual reason centers around resolution. Modern HDTVs have a resolution of (at least) 1280x720, while the NES has a native resolution of about 256x240. The problem occurs when HDTVs use a few extra milliseconds of processing time to downscale the image, and it causes light gun peripherals like the NES Zapper to not be able to lock onto the targets on the screen. It's also the reason why some people claim some NES games have a small amount of lag in the control response when played on a HDTV.
What sucks is there's really no way around it. There are devices out that cut down the extra processing time, but because light gun peripherals are designed to work in 1/60th of a second, even one extra millisecond will ensure it won't work properly. Who would have thought modern TVs would reach the point they can't handle technology from 1985?
That my friends is BS.