Light Gun Action: NY Captor
Added 2025-03-01 09:39:01 +0000 UTCLast minute compilation problems made this JTFRIDAY a Saturday, apologies about that. And here we are!
NYCaptor
This might be the last game for the JTFLSTORY core: NY Captor. A shooting game from Taito that precedes Operation Wolf. This game is not part of the MAME's driver for FairyLand Story, so I had not originally thought of it. But, while working on the PCB board for FairyLand, I noticed that some of the circuits only made sense if a light gun was connected to the system. The MAME driver did not show any such games so I looked around and found this other TAITO title.
NY Captor shows some of the elements that will later be present on Operation Wolf. The uniform of the bad guys, the innocent by passers, the grenades thrown at you that you can shoot away... In contrast, only stage three has scroll though, and it is vertical, as the hardware cannot make horizontal scroll.
Comparing NY Captor requirements with FairyLand's PCB got to more surprises. There are a lot of empty circuit sockets on the board for adding one more CPU to the system (making it a whopping 3xZ80 + MCU board). Checking MAME's information for NY Captor showed almost a perfect match with The FairyLand board. It still took a few days to make it work, though. As the core was originally made without the extra CPU and we had to implement light gun support on JTFRAME.
I have fed a bit of the hardware findings to the MAME team and we have corrected the small error on the sound pitch found on MAME. But still, compared to MAME's current version, the core shows correct sprite over background priority. Something that you can see straight away when you start the game on MAME and watch the attract mode. The MAME driver should get eventually corrected based on the information we have unveiled during our research.
This is the first light gun game to become a JT core. There are a few more in the queue, so adding support to this input system is an important project milestone. This week's support is still preliminary and only mouse based. But we are working on the [Sinden lightguns](https://sindenlightgun.com/) for the next core update.
Bug Fixes
Flip screen now works on Time Scanner set 1
Hyper Sports sprite regression introduced in last update fixed
Thank you for your support!
Comments
At the moment, NY Captor works with only mouse. We are working on making it operational in Sinden Lightgun.
JOTEGO
2025-03-05 12:12:19 +0000 UTCThe first version we are going to make to USB connection one but we would like to develop a SNAC version in the future.
JOTEGO
2025-03-05 10:10:19 +0000 UTCThe first version we are going to make to USB connection one but we would like to develop a SNAC version in the future.
JOTEGO
2025-03-05 10:10:02 +0000 UTCGun-Con on Snac would be awesome
DirtyPair Oj
2025-03-04 03:31:39 +0000 UTCReally looking forward to Sinden Lightgun support. It's a great product and getting support in Mister will be terrific.
Steve Bryce
2025-03-03 15:51:39 +0000 UTCDo you have anyone who you can reach out to who has a variety of Light Guns to test this core through SNAC?
Daniel Thomas Stack
2025-03-03 15:29:27 +0000 UTCVery excited to see arcade lightgun cores :) Is it possible to add generic usb lightgun/IR tracker support, such as the NES/PSX cores etc use? In NY Captor I can controll the crosshair using a guncon 3, however the directions are reversed and the movement isnt propotional to the gun.
Count Duckula
2025-03-03 04:11:29 +0000 UTCΒ‘IncreΓble! GRACIAS.
Mike V.
2025-03-01 22:41:08 +0000 UTCAwesome timing! I have a Sinden light gun in the post so really looking forward to some future updates.
ElloMrChris
2025-03-01 19:51:45 +0000 UTCCant wait to try NY Captor with the Sinden Lightgun. Hopefully we'll see more lightgun games!!!
Karl (BlockABoots) Letting
2025-03-01 17:24:34 +0000 UTCWe'll try to make it work with CRT too
JOTEGO
2025-03-01 13:17:58 +0000 UTCI love hearing how the hardware is related in design to later platforms :)
Spiff
2025-03-01 12:07:40 +0000 UTCGood development, I would like you to also implement the use of gcon2 with the driver for Lightgun of rgbpi. Like the ps1 system
Retroark
2025-03-01 11:42:44 +0000 UTCYay for lightgun support and upcoming cores! π Happy to hear that Sinden support is being looked at! Would be nice, if it felt more officially supported.
TheGeez
2025-03-01 11:24:18 +0000 UTCHermoso juego, gracias
ronalvel .
2025-03-01 10:47:40 +0000 UTCThank you!! I noticed Neo Geo Pocket Color now has a line of garbage pixels in the bottom of the screen on my Analogue Pocket. I'll try older version to confirm later today. Tested on Card Fighters' Clash Capcom -
JSwan
2025-03-01 10:35:13 +0000 UTCwow lightgun support, nice! thanks a ton for your work πͺ I'm hoping it means so steel gunner way down the line, since you mentionned this system before ^^
Mat Azel
2025-03-01 10:29:23 +0000 UTCAmazing! I'll test it out with the gun4ir π« Edit: ah I just saw the lightgun is limited to mouse at the moment. I guess I'll have to wait for the joystick input lightgun support then.
JB Bongrand
2025-03-01 10:18:52 +0000 UTCThis is great. Oh, how do I wish I could use my Sinden Lightguns with my CRT...
Mike V.
2025-03-01 10:18:18 +0000 UTCThe gun4ir is already fully working on the mister π
JB Bongrand
2025-03-01 10:18:16 +0000 UTCπ«π«π«
Pixel Cherry Ninja
2025-03-01 10:12:14 +0000 UTCAwesome work. Thanks for this. Do you know what would be needed to bring Gun4ir and Reaper light gun support to Mister? I know Sinden was recently added.
Tim Oaks
2025-03-01 09:41:48 +0000 UTC
