Aliens Arcade GUNS + mamehooker need help

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Nitro0602:
understood thanks! I am trying to make the trigger button to the letter "y" but sure how to program this in AHK? I normally use Joy2key but mame still recognizes it as a joystick. This is what I have so for compiled in AHK but still doesn't work: both mame and joy2key read the gun as Joystick 4 and trigger as button 1.

AHK Script:
Joy4::Send {y} ; Have button #1 send the letter "y" keystroke.

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on September 12, 2021, 03:09:43 pm ---I'm not sure what you mean by "nothing is showing up" If you mean the guns aren't listed in mamehooker with supported devices that's because they aren't supported devices. Foxhole is using the generic HID commands to control the guns... it's basically a glorified serial write and thus mamehooker has no clue what is going on. If you use the commands he has listed it should work. As he said, all the things you need to do in order to get things working are covered in the docs on the website. I'm sorry but as I don't personally have one of these guns I can't help any more than that.

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Nitro0602:
UPDATE: Sept. 23 2021
It was not working on windows 7, the settings below only worked on windows 10! dammit! Spent days trying to figure this out! lol Hopefully there is a way to work with windows 7.

Okay, normally I am decent at this stuff.. but this thing is driving me nuts! I have attached screenshots to show you guys what I have done, maybe I am missing something:

Mamehooker always shows 0 under outputs, even when I put a default gun recoil for device 1 or if I go to the specific rom eg Terminator 2..
I go under Script Editor, edit INI for Current ROM, I am using Term2 for now. The the txt file opens up and then I select Left_Gun_Recoil= followed by Add, then select Command, select Generic HID send data.. maybe I am selecting the wrong data input? Any help would be great! Files attached.. once I open the rom MH always shows the output as 0.

update:
I tried the same thing with my Xbox 360 controller on the Xbox input and everything worked great! my guns recoil with Alien Extermination so I know they recoil correctly.
I have tried both inputs that Foxhole and Bandicoot have listed, but with no success.
Last image is showing the IDs that have been mentioned in this thread.. still when I press test.. nothing.. Am I doing something wrong?

Nitro0602:
Hey! Okay I got it to work, but only on windows 10.. It wasn't working on windows 7 with those guns. Is there any other settings I can use to get it to work on windows 7? I understand you do not have these guns.. but wanted to know if there was any additional settings I could use? Thanks! I really rather use windows 7 if possible.

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on September 12, 2021, 03:09:43 pm ---I'm not sure what you mean by "nothing is showing up" If you mean the guns aren't listed in mamehooker with supported devices that's because they aren't supported devices. Foxhole is using the generic HID commands to control the guns... it's basically a glorified serial write and thus mamehooker has no clue what is going on. If you use the commands he has listed it should work. As he said, all the things you need to do in order to get things working are covered in the docs on the website. I'm sorry but as I don't personally have one of these guns I can't help any more than that.

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Foxhole:
Ok, i just tested the gun on my win 7 cab, and i get the same results as nitro, mamehooker commands aren't working on it for some reason. Tried playing around with the ghd command, changing report length, device index and etc, but no go. Also tried running mamehooker as admin, but made no difference.
On win 10 it works perfectly without any fuss.

Howard_Casto:
Any issues you have most likely have more to do with the guns or "fixes" to the OS from updates than mamehooker. I started development in xp a million years ago so everything worked as I migrated to 7 and then 10. That being said I don't support old operating systems..... win 10 doesn't require any more resources to run than 7 and it's a far superior OS..... might be time to upgrade.

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