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Choose games with mouse/lightgun in front end?

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joe_heppy:
Hi there,

I have just finished my first machine (yay) and already making plans to make another one... I was thinking for the next one a gun machine! Is there a front end where you just have the snaps of the games and you can just click on them with a mouse? I was thinking it would be cool if you could shoot the game you wanted to play as I would be using an aimtrak gun and as far as I am aware it is essentially just a fancy mouse?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Cheers :)

codefenix:
Sadly, I don't recall ever hearing about such a kind of frontend.  It is a really interesting idea, though.

As a cheesy workaround, use MameUI.  Set it to icon view, and make your desktop resolution low to make the icons appear larger.  Double-click/shoot the icon to launch the game of your choice.  This will achieve the same basic idea.

Not sure how well scrolling would work.   :-\  


EDIT: Scratch that.  It seems like Mala and Hyperspin can do what you want.  Take a look here: http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=202868

joe_heppy:
Cheers for the feedback man! Going to buy the aimtrak next week. Is that the right gun to buy or is there any better suggestions?

Mac Green:
No none i can think of aimtrak is a great lightgun  :laugh:

shateredsoul1979:

--- Quote from: joe_heppy on November 17, 2011, 11:16:40 am ---Cheers for the feedback man! Going to buy the aimtrak next week. Is that the right gun to buy or is there any better suggestions?


--- End quote ---

So far aimtrak is the best for LCD screen, so people say. I haven't personally tried it. If you can get a crt monitor, you can get the older guns that are more accurate.

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