Ligh gun on Mame (Pi)

[a7mag3ddon]

Hi all,

not sure if this is quite the right forum but hope it is. I recently got an Aimtrak Light Gun and think it should work as it emulates a USB Mouse?

Has anyone got a gun working on it yet? Can anyone point me to what file i need to edit to enable it?

I read somewhere about creating a mame.ini and setting lightgun to 1 but i cant find where i read it.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Many thanks.

[ark_ader]

I think drivers would be an issue, but I do have a topgun and a spare pi to test.......

[burn_654]

The aimtrak automatically installs as a usb mouse/hid in windows, no outside driver needed (and seemingly, no real os requirement? I'd have to imagine it could work on a mac.)

Ideally, you could plug it in over usb and it should show up as a generic usb mouse. The only thing you'd potentially lose out on for the pi is the aimtrak utility for adjusting things such as button assignments, ir gain, and recoil, but I think those settings get saved to the gun's memory internally. You could change them to your liking on your computer and then hook it up to the pi.

Granted I have not tried this but that's my thinking. If generic mouse drivers are robust for the pi it might be worth a shot! The topgun however does require a specialty device driver so slim to no chance of that working out.

[Jesperpark]

Just a bump on this, also to see if there is anyone who has tried this?  I don't have the Aimtrak but I am looking for a project to use a Pi with.  Thinking like a Pi, 2 Aimtraks in a pelican case, a protable shooting game setup

Thoughts??

Cheers,

[burn_654]

If you already have a pi, maybe a valuable test to do would be plugging two usb mice into it and seeing if they can pick up as separate player 1 and player 2 crosshairs in mame for pi. If that works then your chances of aimtraks working out should be good. Aimtraks basically show up as 2 rawinput mice so the determining factor for me would be checking if pi mame can do multiple mice well.

[mike5im5]

Yes the Aimtrak will be detected as a mouse on raspbian. So it's down to what ever software you're using to emulate to support the mouse input. I've got many light gun games working (operation wolf/thunderbolt, terminator 2, zero point etc) running under advance mame that comes with the latest retropie dist.

[ark_ader]

Top Guns did not work on the Pi. (Thank God) The whole idea of powering it would eventually cause a fire. 

It worked great on CoinOPS though!!!