DC Light Gun games on a Monitor

[SegaAges]

I am going to start working on my Dreamcast cabinet and have an extra 15 inch flatscreen monitor I was going to use in it, but can't seem to track down my vga cable at this time (which means I will have to buy another one). Since I am unable to track that down, anybody know how compatible light gun games are on a flatscreen for DC or willing to give it a quick test for me since I can't track down my vga cable?

[Leo_A]

I am going to start working on my Dreamcast cabinet and have an extra 15 inch flatscreen monitor I was going to use in it, but can't seem to track down my vga cable at this time (which means I will have to buy another one). Since I am unable to track that down, anybody know how compatible light gun games are on a flatscreen for DC or willing to give it a quick test for me since I can't track down my vga cable?

The screen curvature of the glass doesn't matter.

[j_factor]

All that matters is that it has to be a CRT monitor. And I hear that to get light guns working over VGA you have to crank up the brightness and/or contrast or something.

[dgdgagdae]

Also, a CRT HD monitor won't work.

[Leo_A]

Also, a CRT HD monitor won't work.

It should work.

Spend a few minutes searching at Google and you'll find plenty of people that have been able to use a modern PC CRT monitor just fine with their Dreamcast lightgun games.

I thought the same as you did but did a search to confirm it before making that post the other day and was surprised.

[CRTGAMER]

Also, a CRT HD monitor won't work.

It should work.

Spend a few minutes searching at Google and you'll find plenty of people that have been able to use a modern PC CRT monitor just fine with their Dreamcast lightgun games.

I thought the same as you did but did a search to confirm it before making that post the other day and was surprised.
I have tested Dreamcast House of the Dead with the Interact lightgun.

VGA CRT Monitor worked beautiful.

HD CRT Sony Wega no luck.

[kedawa]

It won't work with most CRT HDTVs because of latency and/or upscaling.

[j_factor]

It won't work with most CRT HDTVs because of latency and/or upscaling.

CRT HDTVs, no. But CRT HD monitors, yes. It might not work on super high-res ones, or widescreen, but it should be fine on any XGA or SVGA or SXGA monitor. Strictly VGA monitors aren't even very common in my experience; I imagine they never really took off because we quickly moved on to better ones. Even the multisync monitors I've seen were XGA capable.

[kedawa]

Monitors that only do VGA are generally very small and very old. I did see some 9" VGA monitors at an electronics recycler once, but they weren't tested yet, otherwise I would have picked up a few.