How Does the NES Zapper Work? #shorts

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[lodden]

Some of the orange ones actually work on LCD and LED screens. Some of the only light guns that work on modern TV's..

[NotSalogou]

Who ever had the idea of shooting a nes zapper into a lamp is a god damn genius



How th did i get this many likes, its only been 5 days

[jacobchambaud]

You kinda sound like badgers distant cousin from breaking bad 😂

[Xenon_]

If I remember right, the light trick doesn’t really work well with official Zappers because the Zapper will look for a single frame of darkness before looking for the light. That why there is an ever so slight delay between the blank screen and the white box.

Edit: Thanks for all the likes!

[LaughingWoodstock]

Whoever thought of sticking the NES gun into a lamp is the father of aim bot.

[Keabetswe-dyzw]

OMG😂 he sounds like badger from breaking bad.

[Skittles]

YO HE HAS THE ORANGE ZAPINATOR!! WE TAKIN OUT THE EYE OF CTHULU WITH THIS ONE 🔥

[MtlD-fiph]

However, i've seen one that uses 2 frames. the screen goes black, the next frame shows the white spots. if the sensor needs to detect the order black then white, it makes the lamp trick useless.

[LoafyNeverClear]

"I bet you $10 that you can beat me in this game"
**pulls out flashlight**

[Unknown_Plays]

im over here waiting for someone to just take one look at that gun and scream SPLATOON!

[Soonsoonsim]

I’ve always wondered this but when I hear it it makes so much sense

:I said I didn’t know something and I have a ton of likes wth

[python]

You're Badger from breaking bad, right?

[Lovely-Rita]

1. You pull the trigger.
2. Screen shows all the available hit spots by white light.
3. Scanner in your zapper scans where you aimmed.
4. If it scanned white, You hit. If it didn't you missed.

[xender]

Never thought badger from breaking bad would be shooting at a tv with an irl zapinator from terraria while explaining it

[Disthron]

This is not the full story. Part of how the system works is that the CRT has no frame buffer. It draws the screen line by line, pixel by pixel and it is displayed immediately. This is how the game can differentiate between multiple targets on the screen at once.

The console knows what target it is drawing and when. So if it's drawing one target and senses the light, it knows that target has been hit.

[adijogoroto]

Now the question is how to distinguish which target was hit correctly on the screen if there are 2 or more targets on the screen?

[possumverde]

It depends on the game and the number of targets onscreen. With multiple targets, there would be a delay between each target lighting up. It would see if it detected a light, then at what delay in order to know which you hit. Some games were strict on there being a delay and would read a constant light as an error and not register a hit etc.

[PrimeGaming]

No AI or anything used . Just human intelligence at its finest ! 😎

[Annalisamupo]

AIM YOUR ZAPPER GUN

YOU CANNOT BEAT US

[moistpckle]

Okay but how does it tell which Target you hit