I have Vampire Night and a GunCon 2 light gun. According to the Internet, it supports 480p. I also have Time Crisis 2 and in the manual, it states that the GunCon 2 supports Progressive Scan. Unfortunately I haven't been able to get it working. I pointed the gun off-screen during the calibration screen, held the trigger, and pressed Select to select Progressive Scan. It displayed the Progressive Scan text but for some reason it will not display in progressive scan. I've read people have gotten it working in emulators. Anyone know why or has anyone else been able to get it working on real hardware? Any help would be highly appreciated!
Progressive Scan mode probably can only be used if you play the game with the controller and not the GunCon 2 light gun. The GunCon 2 requires a CRT display to work, and I don't believe they will work with anything other than 480i.
I did some more research earlier and found this topic on racketboy: http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=204314#p204314. In addition to the manual saying it does progressive scan mode, that post also said the same thing and how to enable it. To quote: I tried the calibrating stuff and it worked. It also has a 100Hz mode for compatible CRT TVs. On my NEC MultiSync A700 CRT, the 480i image sync went crazy (Enhanced Definition only monitor) but the gun still worked. It was just all over the place. The game didn't change resolutions like it was supposed to. I guess Vampire Night doesn't support 480p even though it does on emulators somehow? The only other possible thing I can think of is that you need a EDTV CRT that is compatible with 480i so you can properly calibrate it. Maybe that was why it didn't work for me? If anyone has a CRT that can do both 480i and 480p and it works with lightguns, can you try this with the GunCon 2 to confirm it? I only have access to SD-only CRTs and ED-only CRTs at the moment.
How do you know if the software is ever using 480P? Does your TV indicate so? If not, perhaps this game's idea of "progressive scanning" mode is just non-interlaced NTSC? Would your TV indicate such a change in modes?
That Guide on Racketboy would be mine. Yes, for the Guncon 2 it does have a 100hz 480p mode. An EDTV CRT is needed, though I have yet to find one. An LCD or LED TV would not work on any Retro Lightgun that reads the screen draw of the Tube TV.
I have a CRT HDTV that I could try and I have Vampire Night and Time Crisis 2. I just assumed it wouldn't work but never did try it out. I'm pretty sure I have the right video cable somewhere.
I'm using a NEC MultiSync A700 ED CRT monitor. It only accepts RGB with H-Sync, V-Sync, and C-Sync. Maximum resolution is 1280x1024p and the lowest is 640x480p. Refresh rate varies depending on the resolutions but 640x480p supports up to 120Hz I have one of those universal component cables with composite video, s-video, audio, and component connections. I'm sending the RGBS signals through my Sync Strike and it is then going to the monitor. Since I have the PS2 in RGB mode, I would lose sync when the system swaps to RGsB (sync on green) for 480p. I would then have to remove the composite video plug and use an RCA Y adapter for the green jack which sends green to both the green line and the sync line. I would then get a proper stable image. I also have a Dell ST2210 LCD which accepts sync on green and 480i. I sent the luma signal from s-video using an RCA breakout S-Video adapter to the green input on the LCD. It displays a stable image. It's not pretty by any standards but it is stable. The monitor says 480i all the time even after calibrating the GunCon 2 for progressive scan. Of course the PS2 disables S-Video output on 480p+ so I would lose the picture on my LCD as well. Please do test it out if you can. I setup PCSX2 to use the GunCon 2 emulated last night and I tried out Vampire Night. It didn't swap to 480p either so maybe the games don't support 480p but the gun does? Also sorry about the walls of text, it's been really confusing so I'm putting a lot of detail in hopes of ruling anything out.
If I can find the cable I might be able to try it out tomorrow sometime. When thinking about it more I don't see any particular reason why the Guncon 2 couldn't work in 480p mode. But I'd bet you need a CRT that supports that resolution natively. If it gets upscaled or digitally processed I could see that not working out. It just seems odd since at the time I imagine very few consumers had a CRT capable of displaying 480 lines in progressive scan. So having support for that sure was nice of them if it's really there.
