Sinden Light Gun Owner First Impressions / Feedback

[Simonx30x]

First off I wanted to say thanks to the developers for making this remake. From what I've seen it's a really faithful and beautiful remake of the arcade classic.

So I purchased HOTD Remake from GOG (mainly because I wanted to play it on my Arcade Cabinet local and offline). I own a pair of Sinden Light Guns and wanted to let people know what does and doesn't work currently:

1. Single Player Only: Unfortunately in the options for the game only one player can choose Mouse / Keyboard and the other player defaults to controller. This means no dual light gun support currently.

2. Border: The Siden border does work if you set the game to Fullscreen Windowed.

3. Aiming: The aiming works, sort of. Oddly the game starts calibrated but as soon as their is a cut scene the calibration goes off. Almost like the game recenters the aim regardless of where you are aiming. This means that aiming quickly because almost impossible. The other strange thing is you can't aim to the corners, almost like a bounding box so you can really only aim in the center.

Overall Thoughts: It's day one and I'm hopeful the developers do some adjustments to make this a dream game for Light Gun owners. In it's current state I would recommend waiting if you only want to play with Light Guns.

Hope this helps folks with Sindens!

[Superballs]

Originally posted by BluNectarine:

Thank you for your feedback, we'll see what can be done about number 3.!
As for 2. - we're looking into adding the 2nd mouse option :)

This is great news.

Just for reference, my sinden order was order number 10500 or so on indiegogo, and that was the second crowdfunding site used. Given, we are a niche market, but between sindens, gun4ir and aimtrak users, most who hold HoTD series in high regard, having it implemented would likely net you guys a whole lot of new sales, hopefully for not too much work (not a programmer so I really don't know how much work it would be, full disclosure), and then you would have a framework for already having it implemented for future rail shooter projects, if you decide you want to be our go-to company for remastered (and hopefully original) gun games.

I hope you understand our apprehension, even as a die hard Sega fan, it's pretty common knowledge that Sega has a tendency to farm out their IP to lazy companies who phone in their projects and leave us disappointed, but looking at the reviews for Panzer Dragoon, you guys don't seem to be that kind of company, but we still have new sonic game syndrome. I already purchased the game, and I NEVER day-one anything, but haven't tried it yet (hopefully this weekend after a range trip)

[greentiger]

Originally posted by BluNectarine:

Thank you for your feedback, we'll see what can be done about number 3.!
As for 2. - we're looking into adding the 2nd mouse option :)

Yes two light guns would be ideal

[moe]

Originally posted by BluNectarine:

Thank you for your feedback, we'll see what can be done about number 3.!
As for 2. - we're looking into adding the 2nd mouse option :)

Awesome. Can’t wait!

[Dreadfield]

ok my wallet is waiting till developers fix the sinden compatibility, sinden is spreading fast is the best gunlight outhere rightnow

[Skipper]

I can confirm, that Sinden Lightgun works, but aiming is still a mess. The crosshair is moving from centered to different weird positions, not only after cutscenes even during scene changing. Not able to play properly. Every other game, I dealed before with sinden still works great. So it has to be the game or raw input. By the way: In menu it works excellent and follows the cursor, don't know what happens during gameplay...

[UrBrandNewHero]

I really want a Sinden light gun. The fact that there are more light games to play makes it even harder to resist a Sinden lightgun. Also, if I had the skill and technical know how, I would make a Gun4IR so I could play Carnevil and HotD 3 properly with the pump reload. ha ha

[dynamo duncan]

I have the Sinden Light gun also and like the others who have posted here, if the game works well with this accessory i will definitely buy it.

Does anyone here know if and how i can get the Sinden Light gun to work with RPCS3 or any other emulators? I could get the gun to connect with my pc but could not figure out how to get it working with emulators. The specific problem being that i was unable to actually get into the game because i was unable to select a language or something like that when trying to run the game. Getting it to work with Time Crisis would be epic!

[f3r1x]

guys in the other post there is a video with the solution for the aim!! just a file to download and it work fine!

[f3r1x]

https://youtu.be/6dknzDqM1fs

[safesinger]

I use the Sinden Lightgun on my Street Fighter II mod. It works with RetroParrot, RPCS3 &2, as well as Steam games, Xbox emulator for V.Cop3, NES EMulator, Dolphin Wii emulator, Sega M2, Model3, Naomi &Snes.
The Sinden Lightgun is solid. Just have to setup right and use different apps like DemulSHooter, REshade.

[TakuCED]

Originally posted by f3r1x:

https://youtu.be/6dknzDqM1fs

Thank you! It work better with Sinden :)
I can now play without issue, for moment It fine.

[Simonx30x]

Just tried the fix referenced above with Sinden and it works flawlessly! Still need a fix to allow 2 light guns but this is wonderful to be playing it with my Sinden! Thanks!!!

[V I D A L]

Originally posted by Simonx30x:

Just tried the fix referenced above with Sinden and it works flawlessly! Still need a fix to allow 2 light guns but this is wonderful to be playing it with my Sinden! Thanks!!!

Thanks for confirming it.
I will give it a go and buy the game... But I hope the devs don't get complacent in thinking they don't need to patch it because there is a community fix. I hate buying a game because of a mod to fix something that the devs should have fixed themselves.

Edit: Tried it and it works.. but it still not quite very precise. Turning the crosshair on shows that it's slightly off.

In the instructions txt of the mod there is this paragraph:

Technical notes:
Patches cursor locked states to none so that cursor position isn't centered.
Updates the CrossHair MoveRaw to utilize Input.mousePosition which will provide an absolute position.
No translation needed before applying to transform it would seem data is 1:1 unlike Intake and Bigbuck.

Which is probably what would fix mine being off. But I don't understand any of this. Do you?

As is.. it's playable.. but far from flawlessly. I've never missed shots so much in a lightgun game...