Fishing Controller with PC Monitor

Hi all,

I am thinking of re-purchasing a Dreamcast in the not too distant
future. After seeing Youtube videos of people (ab)using the
Dreamcast's fishing controller with games such as Crazy Taxi, Soul
Caliber and Virtua Tennis etc only made my desire to re-own one
stronger.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt44Pr3oj0Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIDJR0kPnGo

However I am thinking of throwing out my old TV and connecting all my
consoles to my PC monitor using one of those adaptors you see on eBay
such as this one:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/XGA-BOX-connect-your-games-console-to-a-pc-monit...W0QQite

My question is will this work with the Dreamcast's fishing controller?
I know for a fact that light guns won't work with ANY monitor (crt
upwards) but am wondering if it will be the same for the fishing
controller as I know it has some kind of motion sensor. However I
assume that it will be pretty similar to the technology used in
lightguns so I'm doubtful..


Any help on this topic will be much appreciated!!

On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:32:04 -0700, dawson_mp_1982.TakeThisOut@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I am thinking of re-purchasing a Dreamcast in the not too distant
>future. After seeing Youtube videos of people (ab)using the
>Dreamcast's fishing controller with games such as Crazy Taxi, Soul
>Caliber and Virtua Tennis etc only made my desire to re-own one
>stronger.
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt44Pr3oj0Y
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIDJR0kPnGo
>
>However I am thinking of throwing out my old TV and connecting all my
>consoles to my PC monitor using one of those adaptors you see on eBay
>such as this one:
>
>http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/XGA-BOX-connect-your-games-console-to-a-pc-monitor_W0QQitemZ140163324784QQihZ004QQcategoryZ67859QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
>
>My question is will this work with the Dreamcast's fishing controller?
>I know for a fact that light guns won't work with ANY monitor (crt
>upwards) but am wondering if it will be the same for the fishing
>controller as I know it has some kind of motion sensor. However I
>assume that it will be pretty similar to the technology used in
>lightguns so I'm doubtful..
>
>
>Any help on this topic will be much appreciated!!

the fishing controller will work fine, as it doesnt need the screen
for anything, it's just got a couple of mercury switches (or something
similar) in it to detect movement.

and i'm sure lightguns will work with crt monitors, i could swear i
remember playing house of the dead 2 on my old 17" monitor.
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