Really sad song :(

hello coffeee

so I have a CRT HDTV, this should work with original zapper then?

Hello Brad!! The Mattock or other hidden items appear every 4 rooms where there is a secret item. The count changes only when you visit a room where there is a secret item like the Mattock. So, once you understand this, you can easily get a Mattock every time that you kill all the monsters in that room since you'll know when to fight them. :) Also, I like to fight without equipping any shield, so since I use Ointments a lot to be free from injury, magic will go through my body and won't push or hurt me, though it would if I had an equipped shield. Did you ever think about making a Faxanadu game editor? I'd create at least 10 hacks with it haha! And I'll DEFINITELY make at least one Legacy of the Wizard hack because of you man! DREAM come true!!! Thank you sooooo much!!!

They aren’t random. When it first came out they had a guide that told you what was in each box for every stage

Over 20 years and I never knew about this until today. Holy crap

Would it be possible to make an external adapter board that "patches" the game to accommodate the delay? Something that wouldn't require a unique version of the game?

That’s a studyer of a gamer.

I just came here for the song, and I get an existential crisis

Now fix ROB

18:34 just impressive, i've never thought of that. I watched the palette window and thought it was vram cycling and the whole thing was done by hdma with mode 7.

Now I know why in my youth, when I had a Famicon clone as every kid from behind the recently lifted iron curtain did, the gun sometimes worked when put against an ordinary lightbulb. I always thought the original does too and was very surprised that you had this issue.

These modern light guns are overpriced. Just stick with a Wii Remote and a USB sensor bar.

7 days ago??? I found about this recently trying to rip sprites from a nds game ( Shiren the Wanderer ). cool you made a video on It

You choose the worst background music in youtube existence, i didny know if i keep watching or wait for a jump scare...

awesome

I wonder if any of these solutions could be adapted to work with the Plus-X Terminator Laser (yeah, that's what it's called!) for the MSX microcomputer. I own one, along with the pack-in game Dungeon Hunter (a first-person dungeon crawler gallery shooter hybrid!), but do not own a CRT and thus have only ever been able to play it at a friend's place.

right on brad!

Why we no longer have glass in tv displays anymore 😭

just use the wiiu vc version

So since you said the light from modern tvs is slower to release than the old crt tvs, thus making new games give me less time to react while gaming,,, does that mean that's the reason I'm so much slower at games now and its not me getting old???? They really need to bring back hd crt tvs. I still have mine that can do component cables in 420p and I love when I get the chance to still use the old stuff on it, its so crisp and clear.

Easily the BEST video on the subject. Usually people are just rambling about some weird assumptions how the hardware in light guns "usually" works (c64, playstation, dreamcast etc.), while NES implementation is way more simple. Only thing I would add is, with 3rd party light gun & patched ROMs, it still won't work on every flatscreen TV (no idea why). And the worst thing, the best light gun game - Gumshoe - is not patched...

I've used this tool a few times and it's really good. Top marks from me.

Wow, really nice tool and nice intro.

It would be really cool to port this into a web app. Let me know if you'd ever be interested in some help doing that.

Nice overview.

I like the bg music here.

Wonder if this can be done for the NES Classic/Mini?

Should have titled this "why the zapper doesn't work on modern TV's."

Why? You can get a CRT for free on yard sales anyway, and it fixes all of the problems with playing on a modern TV.

You should probably know that the vanilla released game has a bug: You start with the power of the Pendant from the Tower of Suffer "on" and when you collect it, it turns the power off. There are patches out there that fix the issue, but this makes the game NES Hard+. Personally, I'm of the school of thought that the pendant is cursed and makes you weaker, which would align with the Tower of Suffer's name, but the deep dive coders are right on this instance - it is a bug because of the way the memory address opcodes are set up. Game Genie code eyneoaei fixes it. I remember that I used to sell mattocks for fast cash early game.

My solution is pretty simple, it's just using an old CRT.

What about the super scope?

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Is it me or does the mods seem too slow? As in, I can see the squares when I don't remember seeing them that clearly when I was a kid.

use 1080i

The gun needs to see both the white and the black both . Originally it only needed light but that caused players to aim the gun at a lamp and it righters a hit. So it needs to see the black, which then allows it to look for the white square. If it sees it then it's a hit. If not, then the duck is lucky. It's set for 60 fields on a 240P resolution. (Typically only 224 lines where really visable.) while only half the resolution, that didn't matter as it only refreshed the same lines over and over rather then alternating . As long as it's 60 times it's fine as far as the CRT cares. With even a 480P LED tv it has to double that resolution. You have the buffer, and the upscaling and that takes time. And it's looking for brightness in phosphorus dots, not led lights. Our old tvs had that glow new TV's dont

Duck hunt is such a fun game, i probably have like 50 irl hours put into that game lol

How does it work on, projection's screen tvs

You could have just said that light gun games need an interlaced raster scan, as simple as that...

You might just be restarting the game from scratch after a frustrating search for a pneumatic.

Hey, by chance do you know if the zapper with the replacement photodiode will still work reliably with a CRT?

This is mind blowingly good. Passepied is one of my favourite Debussy pieces it's so thrilling, mysterious and as Wikipedia says 'strangely medieval'. This version makes me think of some future robotic alien race visits us in 1M years and finds out about music for the first time and this is their joyful rendition ❤

-all look god until you destroy the cartridge inside cutting the plastic

CRT is better... And bigger 😅

It is funny that a description of the Zapper and modern TVs described the problem with certain TV shows and movies that are aired on TV nowadays were it almost seems like a bad dubbing job audio sometimes being out of sync with the show or movie enough to were you sometimes get audio from commercials

Just get a CRT 🤷🏻‍♂️ I have about 40 of them

I really have noticed my NES smoothness with games like punchout and such was getting sloppy in the past decade. I thought it was me getting old but now it makes sense

The title is pretty misleading unless you count Duck Hunt and Clay Shooter as separate games. Otherwise you should title it "how to play Duck Hunt". Guess my stack of NES light gun games stays in the CRT room...

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