My Covid project: 164 (now 172) PC Lightgun games all ready to play!

I think the one I'm most surprised about is Virtua Cop 3. However there's a few problems with it stage 3 doesn't work at least yet I think. But it's very playable with a lightgun on PC with CXBX emulator.



I'm hoping Time Crisis 5 gets the same treatment one day, House of the Dead Scarlet Dawn, and Lethal Enforcers 3 but so far those are only playable in arcades.

Hey my friend! I am about to follow in your foot steps! Can I ask - what PC Alex are you running? And if you were starting this project again, is there anything you would do differently? Buy a higher spec machine? (Or lower?) focus on some emulators not others?

thank you!

Video dead. Also, why not support heavygun games?

User hasn't been active since mid-2020...

@Silent_Gunner Wait...your username...what's your opinion on lightgun games?

Time Crisis 5 did end up playable on PC, since OP was hoping for it although he seems long gone.

I think they actually can be really fun!...

...with another person in the room and/or with both guns if you're by yourself waiting for a movie screening or something. Thing is, with how things are in the world atm, I can't see much of a good way to translate these kinds of games over a service like Parsec or that new feature with the Steam Link app that allows one to play games with others who may not even have a Steam account its that user friendly!

Let's say I decide to host a Parsec server running, IDK, Area 51 from Midway on the latest version of MAME. IDK if it's compatible atm, but considering the arcade version of Tekken Tag 1 is playable (srsly don't, that game is a case like Soul Calibur 1 on DC where the console version got the better graphics, features, and everything), I wouldn't be surprised if it worked no problem. Anyways, such a setup, if I were to make it so anyone could jump in and play without me having to explain the controls, would really require one to use a mouse as the main control scheme, which should be fine for most light-gun games IMO.

The thing is, if it's a light gun game made later on, like, say, Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles/Darkside Chronicles (a game I'd love to play with someone else one of these days), translating that to a M/KB would be awkward, and may require the use of a keyboard or one of those mice that has all the buttons on the side. It just would limit who could just jump in and play with no technical hiccups of any kind. And those games have QTEs. IDK if any of those are OHKO like many of the QTEs are in RE4-RE6, but it would still be more stressful to do it in today's environment than it would be to just, like, hypothetically, call you up and be like, "Yo, wanna play some Virtua Cop on the Saturn?"

Like, I know people have various thoughts on the pandemic, lockdowns, masks, social distancing, etc., but the main reason these games wouldn't work over Parsec is mainly thanks to the control scheme and trying to hope that a mouse and two-three mouse buttons won't cause input issues, depending on the emulator, and then you have the potential lag depending on the players and the distance they are from each other...it's just one problem after another I haven't really tested for, and to be honest, given my current work circumstances in life (working 5-6 days a week depending on what the company needs, 10 hours for almost every day of the week, and about an hour long drive to and from work every day), I don't envision myself getting around to a solution till later this year, and that's me being optimistic!

EDIT: About the only way I can see these games working well in today's environment is with gyro controls, which have the same problems that come with using the mouse, and the fact that there's only a few different mainstream controllers with good gyro controls that come to mind atm: Steam Controller, DS4/DS5, and the Nintendo Switch. Apparently, whatever gyro stuff is in the XBOne and XSEX controllers isn't good enough for Steam Input. Which is another problem; my control setup is gonna be different from Parsec Host number 2454536, and Parsec Host Number 887876554, and so on. And there do exist pre-configured Steam input profiles for games that support motion controls that you can download from the Steam Input config menu in Big Picture Mode.

In the end, its just a genre made for a more social setting, at least IMO.

As long as people are reading this, does anyone know if Lupin III: The Shooting can be emulated in a playable state? Information is hard to come by.

(Actually, I am particularly interested in Lupin III: The Typing, but if The Shooting can be emulated, I figure The Typing probably can be as well.)

Weirds me out when someone just stops posting randomly

@Milenko Life happens, some people get busier, and who knows what else may be going on.

Could be a loss of interest in GBAtemp, could be a loss of time to spend here, or...could be a much greater loss...hopefully it's not that one.