Will a Playstation Gun work on Dreamcast w/ converter?

sprite · Post by **sprite** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 4:02 am

Anyone ever tried with a Playstation to DC converter, using a Playstation gun on a DC? Does it function right with House of the Dead 2, Death Crimson, Confidential Mission, Virtua Cop 2 (on smash pack), etc etc? Any info is appreciatd, thanks!.

henzenmann · Post by **henzenmann** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 5:50 am

My guess would be no. The converter would have to explicitly support lightguns, since they use a special communication mode of the Maple BUS, different from the one used for regular controllers.

PuNkRoCkEr · Post by **PuNkRoCkEr** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 7:38 pm

my gun broke SOMEHOW(i dont know)while trying to do this.so now im short a light gun

sprite · Post by **sprite** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 12:41 pm

^^ thats strange, i dont think it would "break" anything , if it dont work, then it dont work.. anyone else have any experiences?

az_bont · Post by **az_bont** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 2:08 pm

henzenmann wrote:My guess would be no. The converter would have to explicitly support lightguns, since they use a special communication mode of the Maple BUS, different from the one used for regular controllers.

Aside from that, gun controllers for the Playstation and Dreamcast work in different ways - a Playstation gun that follows the G-Con design will require you to connect it to the composite video output of the console, whereas a Dreamcast gun only uses the controller port.