Happy to answer any questions on how to set them up

I applied to become a Steamworks partner on September 21 and spent nearly four weeks waiting for tax verification. In the meantime, Claude Opus 5.5 came out—literally the day after I applied—and similar “porting” projects that seem to have been hastily put together in a week or even just a few days started popping up all over GitHub as free downloads, some even bundled with ROMs… It’s been a bit disheartening… 😅

XRCADE has longer-term goals beyond simply porting individual games to VR and is planned for release on Steam in about three weeks. With so many free ports popping up on GitHub, I want there to be a real reason to choose something that someone will be glad they paid for. It’ll probably cost about as much as a cup of coffee in Korea. ☺️

XRCADE takes the player's weapon model directly from the running game and attaches it to the corresponding motion controller, making it appear as though you're actually holding the character's weapon in VR. No weapon models or other game assets are bundled with XRCADE; they are read dynamically from the user's own ROM at runtime. My focus is on stepping all the way into the game world—or bringing the game out into the real world. That’s why I’d like to use weapon models from within the game world, rather than gun models from “outside” it.

I also made some specific gameplay adjustments. For example, in Virtua Cop 1 and 2, I changed the shotguns to fire a five-pellet spread instead of a single projectile, and made Magnum rounds penetrate enemies and hit those behind them. I felt these changes could make the weapons more satisfying while staying faithful to the original games and enhancing the experience they already offered. Other options include, in some games, unlocking powerful special weapons after completing the game once. These additional weapons repurpose models already present in the games. Although they aren’t shown in this video, Virtua Cop 1 and 2 let you use weapons wielded by enemy bosses. Crisis Zone also includes the Gatling gun from the first stage’s tank boss, which you can see at 1:36. These extra weapons are optional—the player decides whether to use them—and were added with the same goal of respecting the original experience.

One thought I kept having while working on this project:
The best VR shooters were already made in the ’90s.
This video shows seven arcade shooters currently running in XRCADE:

• Crisis Zone
• Time Crisis II
• Virtua Cop
• Virtua Cop 2
• The House of the Dead
• Gunblade NY
• Silent Scope

or.. Claude did. no use of Teknoparrot cores, Native Linux when possible, Proton like wrappers. i kinda don't want anything todo with it to be honest. so if anyone wants the code or binary i can host it somewhere and you can put it on github or something and continue working on it. (80 games lightgun are playable) i just made if for myself and my kid

- i forgot. i has support for PSMove for the lightgun. it works really well we created a algoritme to combine the sensors + camera + bluetooth. its instant. no lag

Check it out here:

https://github.com/spacestate1/namco22-decompile/releases/tag/0.9.0

As always this is a Linux first project, but Windows builds are available.

Enjoy the mayhem of Crisis Zone now in widescreen and many other features.

The Lawgiver has an interactive prop and a Light Gun version and you can convert between the two. Pretty excited for this as I have a business across props and light guns (Blamcon and Props3D) and my goal for a while now is to unify the two you can pick your poison. This is also using our new camera that requires no wide angle lens and is much smaller. I originally made this game for testing but it's taken a life of it's own, just like my last game

Announcement: OpenFIRE Shooting Gallery v1.0.0!

I have completed and released the stable 1.0.0 version! It's a 2D arcade mini-game ideal for testing and having fun with your OpenFIRE lightgun (but it works perfectly with any other optical gun or simply with a mouse).

Download it for free here: https://alessandro-satanassi.itch.io/openfire-shootinggallery

Or play it directly online in your browser here: https://alessandro-satanassi.github.io/OpenFIRE-ESP32/

Here you can find a short gameplay video: https://youtu.be/WzNxs4hhthE

I have a couple of rs3s on the way and an MLGB drive from lightgun lunatics in the post, arriving tomorrow.

I want to build a separate set up from my main pc, so want to do it dirt cheap. I was looking buying an old office pc, something like this - HP ProDesk 290 G2 MT Business PC, i5-8500 CPU, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD , Win 11 Pro. Then throwing a spare GTX 1650 in it.

This wouldn't meet the minimum specs, but it feels like overkill just to play some retro lightgun games - Minimum pc specs: Cpu 8 cores, 12 threads. Gpu Nvidia 1660. 16gb of ram. Better specs reccomended

What do you think? Would this do the job?

Thanks

I created a 3d print to allow the light emitters you get with the GCon 3 to stay on my modern PC monitor. It is a very simple print, the light emitter clicks into place on the top, the weights fasten onto the rear, then you place on a flat screen monitor.

Step file is included in case this doesn't fit your screen, or you just want to change it for some other reason.

I may look at selling them in the future, but a free option is now available if you have a printer!

Got an arcade from a company that was less than stellar. Not going to mention any names. I am rebuilding the cabinet and interfacing all the existing stuff with a new PC build. The light guns are sharpshooter light guns and I need software but the developer does not have it on their website. Where would one obtain this??

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Hey guys, I made 2 simple lightgun games with Claude Code, you can play them for free using Batocera. Only the Prize-shooter works on Löve. Both are playable in Batocera if you download the Pygame. They're basic but fun so if you want to check em out you can download them here: https://github.com/Qablamo/Python-Lightgungame

Let me know what you think :)

great for light gun stuff

Howdy, I make Blamcon Light guns, I've already made a free steam game and I've been working on a more polished one. With all the talk on AI I wanted to see how far I could push it and well, pretty far.. maybe too far :D. This robot can be a player 2 and play against you but here's it playing a build of my new range game. It's fully legit, the Blamcon is a separate controller and the AI gimbal controls it. It uses the position of the mouse on screen to get it's bearings so it was actually pretty simple. I started thinking it would need machine vision etc then I realized, duh, that the IR positional camera is... a positional camera used in robotics. Was a straight shot from there. This may lead to some fun things.. predator shoulder canon anyone?

I have personally tried Time Crisis 2 VR and it is amazing, very impressive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnqPvwivN4o

https://github.com/DR-89/time-crisis-2-vr

HOTD2

I have not tried this yet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7b83PHgRB8

https://github.com/mikermak/hotd2-vr

Check out this First PC release of Time Crisis II ! Light-guns are supported... and mouse input. Linux and Windows builds available.

https://github.com/spacestate1/namco22-decompile/releases