Aimtrak guns, perfect with one, cant get second to work

[doeby]

Ive tried everything i can think of. looked at the help here and tried it with no success.  I can get 1 aimtrak gun to work perfect, the second one will hook up fine in the utility program. different IDs , calibrates fine. In all the gun games, it will be laggy, its like a slowing scrolling mouse. Ive tried to make the second gun a second mouse, like suggested. i am using mame 1.77 and it will only see it as 1 mouse. I manually edited the files, to try core INPUT options as  lightgun 1 and 0.  dual mouse 1 and 0, dual lightgun 0 and 1.  CORE INPUT AUTOMATIC ENABLE OPTIONS tried lightgun as mouse and lightgun.  closet i got was lightgun as mouse, and both guns would move the cursor smooth, but only 1 cursor, so both guns were being the same mouse control. It seemed like mame 1.77 wouldn't see 2 different mice. Any ideas
thank you

[Ginsonic]

In your Mame.ini: multimouse = 1  ?

[Titchgamer]

You problem may be the version of mame.
I run 168 (i think) as i found the newer versions just did not work well with dual aim traks.

Try a older version and see how you get on.

[Haze]

You problem may be the version of mame.
I run 168 (i think) as i found the newer versions just did not work well with dual aim traks.

Try a older version and see how you get on.

I think a fix / improvement went into one of the last 2 versions tho? *edit* apparently in 0.177 which the poster is using, so yes, 0.177 should work fine as people tested that fix and reported it as working.

MAME 0.177
31 Aug 2016

Today marks the end of the southern winter/northern summer, and time for the hotly anticipated August MAME release. Possibly most importantly, we've fixed the issues that were causing menus to display off the edge of the screen on Windows (MT06335). We've integrated a fix for Aimtrack Dual Lightguns on windows from new contributor Pitou, and the behaviour of XAudio2 sound output should be much improved when adjusting game speed to match monitor refresh rate. Mouse behaviour on SDL builds (Linux/Mac) is also improved. Thanks very much to all the users who reported issues and helped out testing fixes.

[Titchgamer]

You problem may be the version of mame.
I run 168 (i think) as i found the newer versions just did not work well with dual aim traks.

Try a older version and see how you get on.

I think a fix / improvement went into one of the last 2 versions tho?

Possibly but they are on 180 now, so 177 would still not be fixed?

Not sure aint tried it :p

But I know around 170 ish they broke dual guns.

[doeby]

i think i will try to go back to version 168 so i know i can get it to work. can i get the config from someone that has it working. just the main changes like
CORE INPUT AUTOMATIC ENABLE OPTIONS
CORE INPUT OPTIONS
INPUT DEVICE OPTIONS
then if they have the 2 guns set as lightguns or mice in the aimtrak utility.

[Titchgamer]

Ok I just checked I am actually running .170 so it must of been 171 when it stopped working properly.

Here are my ini settings:

[Ginsonic]

Ok I just checked I am actually running .170 so it must of been 171 when it stopped working properly.

That is correct, it was v171 ! Your ini looks fine.

[Haze]

As I said, it should work in current versions tho, going back to 0.170 is a bad solution, especially when you consider some games you might want to use guns with have had *significant* improvements since then (Operation Wolf comes to mind)

the improved support has been tested as working (a fix to the very situation being talked about was in 0.177) so if you have a problem with it then you should (after checking the latest MAME) either go to Mametesters to discuss your issue, or work out what you're doing wrong with the new version (it's possible how you use them has changed, there was quite a big input overhaul making the input system much better - it might be something as simply as trying to use old ini files with invalid settings for the new version)

[Titchgamer]

Well ive got the .180 rom set so I may give it a shot over the weekend.
They had any luck inproving the ID mapping issues do you know Haze?