Gun4ir vs Sinden .... The Best Option For You in 2023 ?

I have both guns. With the gun4ir, if you have a fisheye lens, you can stand closer to the screen than with a Sinden pistol. You don't have to worry about the lighting in the room. The recoil in the Sinden pistol fades when firing automatically. But these are not the main disadvantages of the Sinden pistol. With gun4ir, using mamehooker, you can adjust the recoil like on a real arcade (not in all games, but there are many of them). It's strange that none of the reviews I've seen mention this. That is, when you run out of ammo in the game, the recoil will not work until you reload the weapon. And this is the most important plus of Gun4ir. Based on this, it follows that it does not make sense to install Sinden in an arcade machine. Gun4ir wins in everything and is in no way inferior to real arcade guns.

I just got me a 28'' CRT-TV and couple of GunCon2:s for blasting PS2 games. Lots of fun, easier and cheaper too!

Thanks for exploring the pros and cons

Wow bringing back the old super jolt gun. I got that from a Vegas trip when I was younger. I has a gun metal paint spray weights pretty hefty it worked on ps 1 and sega saturn. You had to aim down the bottom hole and not from the sight because its sights are off. It cost around $80 to $100 back then.

Very neat guns! Good reviews and cool video Wicked!👉😃👈

I love my sinden gun as I move around to different PCs and monitor's. I think if I was building a cab I would go for gun4ir. Both are good fun, bring on more light gun games.

Its been a long time I haven't commented on one of your videos WG.....but Let light gun battle begin!!!

I have read and watched endless comparisons of sindens against the gun4ir and the only thing that matters which is never answered is how 1 to 1 the cursor is when doing quick movements like an old school lightgun. I dont care how much the guns weigh, or their setup, or anything else. Which gun is closer to using an old school light gun when making snap movements. Nothing else should matter as much and its annoying its not the focal point of any comparison.

Have only recently placed my order for a Sinden. Cant wait to give it a shot. No recoil. My orignal PS1 & PS2 GunCons didnt have recoil and thats the games and experience I want to recreate

The only games I used the light guns for was Duck Hunt and Clay Shooter. I do not know why Nintendo never re-released Duck Hunt durning the Wii era or even with the Nintendo Switch.

Thank you for this.

I have a black sinden with the recoil. i do mot use the recoil feature much though. Once you have it set up it is pretty spot on for most of the games. Nes duck hunt using retro through retrobat has played extremely well, and so has the naomi, and other sega games. It is jst what I needed to round out my home arcade.

I didn’t understand on wich os was working on, i wished you tried it with other devices like mister or os, i’m really curious about the compability out of the box.

don't have lightgun games anymore - miss the old days

I have both, and while there's arguments to be made on the practicality of the white border VS the IR sensors, and whether the white borders are a dealbreaker for you or not, if we're talking simply about the latency and accuracy of the gun itself and nothing else, Gun4ir absolutely blows Sinden out of the water. There's just no comparison; Gun4ir wins in every way. This said, even though one is clearly better than the other, they're both at least good, and I don't feel either purchase is a mistake.

My friend bought a couple of Sinden guns, when they came available. He gave me one of them to try and use, I've been having it since. Firstly I tried to get it to work properly, on two different computers and displays. It had quite terrible jitter on the cursor on screen. I never got it working properly and it has been on my shelf after that. On this summer, I suddenly remembered it again and decided to test it again. New software, new firmware. Same problems. Getting it to work with something like MAME is, frankly, just too much work for me nowadays... I mean, I've been living the DOS-era and all the configurations it brought with it. I honestly tried to get it to work again on 2 different systems and displays. After two days of frustration, I gave up... I got it to work with Duckstation, kind of easily. Though button mapping is still a thing I don't understard. If you remap the trigger and press the trigger on gun. It just doen't work. One has to map it to left mouse button and as the gun is configured to use trigger as left mouse button, why that doesn't work??? Don't know... Anyway, suddenly during trying different settings, gun reversed every axis (up, down, left, right). Quitting and restarting Sinden software got it back to normal. Sometimes, the trigger just doesn't work or there is a terrible lag. Jitter is horrible, spending hours on trying to adjust the settings, it's all the same. The jitter is just horrible. 65" LG C9 (with 3700x and Asrock Radeon 6950XT) and Samsung CHG9 (with 5800x and Gigabyte Radeon RX 6900 XT Extreme Waterforce WB). I'm just glad I didn't waste my money for this piece of... Well, let's just say I'm happy for those, who got a working one. This just doesn't. Just saying, I'm never getting Sinden myself...

These look great! Good luck actually getting one...

You forgot one big thing emulation and some games just don't work. Is their any way to make full blown video on windows 10 set up for light gun set ? showing how to set up for this as this one thing I have not seen.

When you play with a GUN4iR, does both the Recoil and Rumble are activated at the same time?

Hi thanks for the vid. Do they work on Xbox one S please ?