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DietCoke:


--- Quote from: AndyWarne on July 25, 2014, 12:03:22 pm ---If the picture is not fitting the screen the gun will not be accurate and needs to be calibrated against the actual picture size rather then the screen. The calibration steps show a cursor which needs to be aimed-at at each step but if the game only uses part of the screen this wont work properly. The gun assumes the game uses all of the Windows desktop screen. So it will need to be intentionally mis-calibrated to work with these games, and this is not a supported method of operation.

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Andy, I appreciate you stepping into the thread to answer questions with detail!

I've got a 16:9 monitor, but of course the Mame games are displaying in 4:3 and centered, so there are black bars on both sides that the game doesn't end up using.  Should I be calibrating against the picture size in that case?

dkersten:

Diet, yes, that is one of the things I have been trying to get right here.  What worked for me was launching a game that is 4:3, then using little pieces of tape to mark the top left and right edges of the game screen, then went back to windows and ran the calibration.  The cursor goes to the top left but is about an inch short of the corner.  So I aimed about 3/4 inch down and toward the center of my left mark and pulled the trigger.  Then the cursor goes to the top right and I did the same with the top right mark.  Then it goes to the bottom and I just aimed at the cursor down there and finished the calibration.  I then removed the marks and launched a game, did the in-game calibration in the service menu, and the aim was nearly dead on all the way to the corners.  However, moving closer or further away by even a few inches changed the aim just enough to make a difference. 

Connorsdad:

There are definitely problems when using two guns simultaneously, I even returned one of mine thinking it was faulty but it wasn't. I have the guns plugged into separate usb headers on the main board so a hub isn't the problem in my situation. As long as I don't unplug the guns they will keep their ids in mame/model 2/model 3 etc. The problem with the controller remap utility is that it only works with mame.

I tried swapping the ids and re calibrating to test for a faulty gun, the gun that worked fine was now all over the place and vice versa.

SpatzST:

@dkersten
Uhm, I can't imagine why you'd have such problems like your task manager opening while you aren't touching the computer... I would definitely not assume that issue is a result of your USB hub and lightguns. I would suggest you get that checked out. Virus scan wouldn't hurt.

dkersten:

Soon as I moved my ipac off the hub it went away.. I am assuming that since it is a keyboard emulator and all keys required to do things like open task manager are assigned to buttons on mine, that if it was glitching due to a lack of power, and random keypresses were happening, then it could be doing that.  This started exactly when I added the hub and moved the ipac there, and ended completely when I moved it back to a direct PC port.  It was creepy when it was happening, and frustrating as hell - I would move the joystick in Mala and everything would go wonky.  I would right click to get to the configuration, and it would close on me as if I had left clicked off the window.  And games would suddenly launch, get removed from the list, or get moved to other game lists.  It was so random though that I knew it wasn't any kind of malicious software, and not only is this a clean install, but I haven't done anything on it since the install to compromise the system.

For the most part, everything is working exactly as it had before, and the only real issue I still have is the second gun glitching out. 



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