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1001mph:
Thanks again Wade!

I have Andy's email (they are Ultrimarc guns - I'm thinking perhaps its a windows/os problem where the lightgun is not being differentiated with the other mice (the regular one and the tankstick) but lets see what he has to say. Worse case I'll play with that XML mapping - i'm comfortable with that level but leery to play with it and risk messing up the rest of my setup.

I'll report back hopefully soon with whatever the resolution may be but thank you for all your help!
1001mph:
Hey Wade,

I think i have it figured out - it was in the ultrimarc utiltiy button assignment. I had left them at the default mouse left/right settings but started thinking about the wierdness i was having and thought that it might be in there.

Unfortunately the instructions weren't much help as they don't actually tell you what the setup for these guns should be but I entered what was in pictures in the manual - although that didn't work either it at least started to come up Joy button 1 and 0

A little trial and error i have it working well in operation wolf - trying to find a game with off screen reload to test that out next and then onto Hyperspin.

If i might ask though, how do you have your button assignments in the Aimtrak Utility? I figured doing what you did would be best for me as well!

Thanks Wade!

Mike
Wade007:
Hi Mike,
Glad you got it figured out!  :applaud: You had me really starting to scratch my head there for a while.  :dunno

I didn't mess with the AimTrak Utility at all. I find it best (at least for me) to leave the default settings as is. Don't change their IDs either unless you really know what you're doing.

I believe the only tweak Arcade Guns has by default that is different than what Ultimarc ships is that the default rear button timing for calibration is 10 full seconds whereas Ultimarc's setting is much shorter (3 seconds?). I think a longer button push requirement is safer in order to avoid entering calibration mode during game play.

Anyway, I believe my button settings come up as something like "GUNCODE_3_BUTTON1" for the trigger and and JOYCODE_1_BUTTON3 and JOYCODE_1_BUTTON2 for the rear and handle buttons. "Joycode" buttons can be correct for the second and third buttons.

The trigger button can change depending on the ID that Windows picks up, enter the utility mentioned prior. I would imagine that your buttons settings would be similiar but not exact.

Have a great time with the lightgun games!
1001mph:
Hi Wade,

All seems good now - i played with those settings in Ultrimarc and seem to have a good combination.

In hindsight my mistake was following the Ultrimarc instructions. Perphaps the later versions of Mame are more gun friendly but my mistake was changing the settings per the Ultrimarc instructions - I went back and started from scratch and found that when I went into the Mame settings it already had the x y axis and P1 button settings for the gun (along with mouse settings). However, had i edited the right Mame.ini in the first place i'm sure it would have been almost plug and play.

hopefully all this helps someone in the future.

thank you again for your help - it was very kind of you.

Mike
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