Xbox classic Support

[brutez]

Xbox Support was on the gun4ir legacy list but never be talked over again. Since i own some ems topguns i like that switching feature. That Feature would really boost Attention.

There is a linux driver for the Classic Xbox controller xpad Kernel and a linux driver for the ems topgun to look at. I could also try to dump the chip data from one ems if someone tells me how to do that.

Maybe its just outputting the position as a joystick and works like your pcsx2 Implementation.

[SeongGino]

If you've read the project readme, original console support has always been in the "nice to have" list.

At least for the PS2/Guncon 2, there is a reference implementation using an older fork of the Samco codebase that, if I was to parse what data it was sending for coordinates/button signals, I could implement it (though figuring out how to get the system to detect what's a PC vs. a PS2 or other console is something maybe better suited for a fork).
For the Xbox however, there's a couple of issues:

1. No reference implementation to go off of: Linux kernel drivers only helps that original device work on Linux, but doesn't speak much for what it's doing for original hardware. I'm also no driver developer, so it's basically greek to me anyhow.
2. Xbox support in general is weird--as far as I know, people have only gotten to figuring out how to pass through/emulate a Duke-style gamepad and a Steel Battalion control deck, but whatever the light gun is is entirely different from that. You can see this with projects like GP2040-CE--even though it has OG Xbox support, the library/reference it uses only supports outputting as a Duke or Steel Battalion.
3. Out of all the original consoles to support, the OG Xbox is by far the least desirable Lightgun-supported system. Just off the top of my head, only three (and a half) games support gun peripherals on the console:
   • Silent Scope Complete, the only real gun-supported game on the system that's truly exclusive.
   • House of the Dead 3, which you can find a better experience of on PC.
     • HOTD3-Xbox comes with House of the Dead 2, but from what I'd played when I had a Top Gun 3, HOTD2 literally doesn't work past the first shot - you can also play this game emulated (and actually playable) on PC.
   • Virtua Cop 3, which you need a debug or expanded RAM Xbox to even play on original hardware, doesn't even use a Lightgun - it just outputs as a controller. This game is supported on PC via Cxbx-Reloaded (and even works on Linux via Wine+DXVK).

So unless you just really like Silent Scope, you would be better off playing the other titles on PC either via it's native port (HOTD3) or emulation (HOTD2, VC3). I feel like the Xbox is already so niche out of the 6th generation anyways, that the people who own an OG Xbox and knows there are lightgun games on it probably have a PC they could play the three-out-of-four games mentioned above.

Either way, I've sort of made the decision a while back, that as "nice to have" as it would be, I'm just focusing on the core/intended functionality on PC. GUN4ALL development's already coming to a shift as I prepare for binary releases and implement some level of configuration saving/loading. But because of the beauty of open-source, you're free to experiment, and either fork the project or send a pull request. :)

[brutez]

yeah ok, i will make the switch to pc for the 3 games then. Thanks for the details