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| eds1275:
I can play police trainer like a boss I also have 2 guns working correctly no probs |
| darthpaul:
I just fitted my two guns with recoil this weekend and while one gun works like it should, the other gun I can only use when I fire from the hip and there is a slight delay in the recoil. I calibrated them both the same way, one difference is, the one that is not working too well has an older style module in it. I have sent an email to Andy, just waiting for his response. |
| dkersten:
I am still unconvinced I will ever get these working as "aiming" guns.. just moving 3 or 4 inches in any direction can throw off corners by 2 or 3 inches on the screen, making aiming somewhat worthless. But the further back you are, the better they work, assuming you don't have any interference.. I am going to try to calibrate "in game", but I think it will still look for the same calibration points, because even though mame is running at 4:3, the monitor is still at 1920x1080 and windows will see it as a full 16:9. Andy didn't have anything particularly useful to say about this, so I will keep trying and if I make any headway I will post results with images. I got House of the Dead 2 working in Demul, and once configured the aiming is the best I have seen so far, dead on accurate. But then this runs in a full screen width, not letterboxed like mame games. The problem is when I was tinkering, I configured both guns in the game setup, and Demul sees both as the same "mouse". Unfortunately, it took the second gun's calibration as P1 and the first gun as P2, and somehow made that the default, so even though I recalibrate and save as default, every time I launch the game it goes back to that first calibration, and while the P2 cursor in test mode is dead on, the P1 is way off. And in full screen mode, when I go to recalibrate, it windows the game and it is a huge pain in the butt to get it back to full screen (loses focus so I have to click out of calibration, then alt-tab to Demul again, then alt-enter to get back to full screen). Once configured right it works great, but still not something anyone who doesn't know how to go through the complicated in game calibration process would be able to do, especially when it goes to window mode the first time you fire in the top left corner. Plus no player 2 gun really sucks. Some games I can't do the mame crosshair as the game (even after in game calibration) is too far off from the crosshair, so I turn it off in those games and just get used to where the gun is shooting.. far from ideal but at least playable. The ones where the mame crosshair is exactly where the game fires (like time crisis and operation wolf) are quite fun to play, and I just play "from the hip".. Gun2 is still glitching out, but I swapped them around and still have the identical problems, so it definitely isn't the gun hardware. I intend to swap some USB's around tonight so the guns are plugged into PC ports and not a hub. After the ipac issues I am completely against using USB hubs in arcades. I will use it for my pc keyboard, pc mouse, and wifi adapter, and then rewire the front usb ports to be in back and plug each arcade device into the computer directly. I hope this makes a difference. When the second gun starts glitching, I get similar problems to what I had with the ipac plugged into the USB hub.. when I get out of the game, mala will lose focus, there will be a right-clicked menu up on the screen I can't get rid of, and sometimes things just go wonky for no reason. If I am not using that second gun, no problems at all. Nothing like this was happening before I added the hub, so that is the first place I am looking. I still have a long way to go before things are good enough for me, but at least I have gotten a few games to run well. Ideally there needs to be a way to load profiles like you can in the u360 joysticks.. button configurations, different calibrations, and maybe even a way to check that ID1 is assigned to the same gun# in mame would make life a lot easier and even allow for guns to be unplugged when not in use. I didn't set up my external USB ports to be always plugged in, but it looks like I won't have much choice. Now I just need to find a way to manage the cords.. would love to find a small spring loaded cord reel that I could install inside the case.. |
| DietCoke:
I picked up two of these about a month and a half ago. Setup was misery, and to say that they are accurate would be a lie. They *do* work, or at least they did the last time, but they have been so flaky that I haven't really bothered with them since. Looks like they'll be the "one day I'll get THAT working" issue on this setup, at least for now... |
| SpatzST:
--- Quote from: eds1275 on July 19, 2014, 10:54:31 pm ---I can play police trainer like a boss I also have 2 guns working correctly no probs --- End quote --- police trainer is awesome, but I find there to be too much input lag to be quick and accurate since the aiming reticle drags |
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