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Can you help with my next Hypseus game project?

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Hi, I’m Widge. I’m the author of the Captain Power VHS Game simulator for Hypseus Singe, and I’ve also released other projects for Hypseus including the Video Driver VHS Game Simulator, Minesweeper, Space Rocks, and most recently, I co-authored the Hypseus version of Marbella Vice. I’ve also had a hand in contributing to improving some of the earlier lightgun game conversions for Hypseus. Everything I’ve been involved with and released so far has been completely free — no strings, no paywalls, no donation drives. Right now, I’m working on a few different projects. But specifically, something that I’m really excited about is a simulation of the Video Challenger VHS game system. For those unfamiliar, Video Challenger was a VHS-based lightgun game system similar to Captain Power. It used video playback with special flashing patterns embedded into the footage that a sensor on the toy gun could detect — almost a home version of laserdisc-style gameplay, but much more obscure and limited. Th...