Question for all you nintendo techies

[Plop]

I'm hooking up my old 8 bit NES to my LCD TV and the zapper games don't seem to work. The gun itself makes a flash onscreen and the noise is present but no dead gangsters. Is the LCD distorting the gun? And before I get posts saying "try aiming" or "point the gun at the screen" I tried the gun from a distance of 6 feet away and about a foot away with the same results.

Help Please! I just want to play Wild Gunman and Hogan's Alley again

 

[UpgradeFailure]

Originally posted by: Plop
I'm hooking up my old 8 bit NES to my LCD TV and the zapper games don't seem to work. The gun itself makes a flash onscreen and the noise is present but no dead gangsters. Is the LCD distorting the gun? And before I get posts saying "try aiming" or "point the gun at the screen" I tried the gun from a distance of 6 feet away and about a foot away with the same results.

Help Please! I just want to play Wild Gunman and Hogan's Alley again

I dont think it'll work on that.
Heck, light guns are just coming out to work on HD TVS, so I dont think NES games will work on an LCD

 

[wedi42]

the gun works with the timing of the interlacing on a CRT
wont work on LCD

 

[wvtalbot]

No it won't work.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: UpgradeFailure

Originally posted by: Plop
I'm hooking up my old 8 bit NES to my LCD TV and the zapper games don't seem to work. The gun itself makes a flash onscreen and the noise is present but no dead gangsters. Is the LCD distorting the gun? And before I get posts saying "try aiming" or "point the gun at the screen" I tried the gun from a distance of 6 feet away and about a foot away with the same results.

Help Please! I just want to play Wild Gunman and Hogan's Alley again

I dont think it'll work on that.
Heck, light guns are just coming out to work on HD TVS, so I dont think NES games will work on an LCD

You are correct.

 

[S Freud]

Originally posted by: johngute
the gun works with the timing of the interlacing on a CRT
wont work on LCD

FTW

 

[Plop]

well I guess it's time to dust off the old tube tv set, thanks for the replies so far

 

[UpgradeFailure]

If anyone was curious, here's the new HD TV lightgun setup