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loppydog:
Thanks guys for the reply's.  Ok I figured my problem was the glass, so I went ahead and pulled the glass off.  I still have the same problem.  I went ahead and measure the absolute min distance I could get a calibration and it was 4 foot 4 inches. And even at that distance it might loop about 5-6 times before it takes!  My room is completly dark when I calibrate and I have checked to make sure all the "leds" are lit up through a camera.  I have not bothered trying to fix my other issues yet as this problem needs to be addresed first.  Again the strange thing is the gun works fine up until I get about 1 and a half feet away from the screen, so why in the world do I need to be almost 4 and a half feet away to calibrate.  At this point I wish I could just start changing the calibration numbers around until I hit the sweet spot.  Anyway, I am still happy I bought these devices because I can see the pontential they have and I know I will probably get everything sorted out eventually.  Thanks again guys!

BTW my screen is a 22" widescreen LCD if it matters

update:  I fired up MAMEUI without any frontend.  The Aimtraks seem to be working just fine this way.  It even fixed the way mame was handling my usb devices...they are showing up as seperate devices like they should.  Even my USB keyboard is showing up as a device(when I dont want it to :)) Now if only I could figure out how to get it to work like this with command line MAME!  I can only think that it must be some kind of resolution issue.
SlyJackal:
I just want to say when I say I'm disappointed in the purchase its not at Andy's fault.  Alot of it is finding roms that use the light gun that works.  None seem to.  They either skip or have missing files.  So don't take that to mean that his product doesn't work.  I haven't messed with it enough to know for sure.  I did have a small problem with having to be back to far but also my screen is slanted a bit much.  But I'm more frustrated that games I bought this light gun for, mainly Time Crisis 1 & 2 and Area 51 just doesn't work right at all and not cause of the gun.  So most of my disappointment is there.  I hope to have the gun going soon as I read this setup guide Andy provided me with and then I will give a better review of the gun.  Also how best to setup the footswitch for Time Crisis can I set it to be the button on the gun?  Thanks and thanks Andy.  
CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: SlyJackal on September 21, 2010, 04:03:53 am --- does anyone have a working Time Crisis 1 & 2 rom and ARea 51 or know how I can get it to work? 

--- End quote ---

Second part of that question is OK. First part is a no-no.

loppydog:
as far as getting the footswitch to work I would think the best way would be to wire up some of the extra button connections on the aimtrak device, so you can just press a button on the gun.  If that is not an option, if you are using an ipac, you could buy a real footswitch and wire it directly to your ipac, Then just assign in MAME.  I have area 51 working, but I think it takes a really fast PC.  You will need to locate the rom along with area51.chd, put them in the same location and point mame to the directory (I hope its OK to mention this stuff....if not I can edit it).  If I were you I would use MAMEUI to just get things working, then when you have that going try to get it up and running with a front end.
SlyJackal:
Thanks for the info and my apologies on the post I edited out that part if anything else needs edited just delete the whole post.  The gun I have has 2 buttons on it already can I assign it to that?  Just curious and yes I have an ipac and considered making a footswitch but right now I have to be too far from the cab which may change once I get my aimtrack configured better.  My pc is 300ghz 1GB ram I would think it would run area51.  Thanks loopydog and all for your help.
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