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Happ guns for emulator setup?
purbeast:
I currently have a Maximum Force cabinet with an 8 way JAMMA switcher in it with 2 Happ guns and everything works great. I have about 20 or so different boards for it and have one of the 8 ports external so I can swap games without pulling the cabinet out and opening it.
However, I have for a while been wondering if there is a way I can basically do this with a PC and emulator.
Is there anyway to get the Happ guns to work natively with the CRT and an emulator setup like MAME on a PC and have everything work through the JAMMA harness?
I had heard some things about using a USB2Gun board from America's Army to do something similar to this however I could never find much information about it, nor if games were able to be emulated well in MAME.
Last time I played my Lethal Enforcers board, the sound is starting to go and I know that means I have to replace the sound chip on it, which isn't easy/trivial and isn't cheap. It's things like this that make me wonder if I can go a different direction with basically turning this into a light gun emulation station if possible so that I won't have issues like this in the long run.
I also have a Time Crisis pedal that I use for Time Crisis on it so it would be awesome if that could be hooked up as well somehow. If I recall though, I believe it's just hooked to either P1 Button 1 or P1 Start under the hood.
Anyways, if anyone has any information about this that would be great. If it's not possible and someone can confirm that, that would be great too just so I know it's not a possible route.
Thanks.
purbeast:
I am bumping this because I am still interested in this.
I have since put together a PC in my KI2 cabinet and have a MAME setup with a JPAC and am using HyperSpin for it.
So I am curious, is there anything similar to this for light gun games, that I could put inside my Maximum Force cabinet, with a USB2GUN board?
I'm going to continue searching the forums now, but this was the first result I saw when searching and forgot I made this thread lol.
BadMouth:
"USB2Gun" was just the name a shady vendor was using for reselling the GlobalVR board as a new product. They made a manual, but don't think they ever sold any.
EDIT: seems I'm wrong about that. It is called USB2Gun in the GlobalVR manual.
Project showing it working: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,138723.msg1433282.html#msg1433282
The project thread should contain useful info.
Manual: https://service.globalvr.com/downloads/aa/040-0143-01_Americas_Army_Manual-web.pdf
That board shows up as joysticks, thus works with any emulator that can utilize a joystick for each gun.
(MAME, other emulators with helper programs like Demulshooter)
You mentioned in another thread that you had a board that shows up as a mouse.
That would work for any emulator that can utilize multiple mice, which is probably limited to MAME.
But it may work with some type of helper program to convert the mouse input to joystick input.
Outside of MAME 1 player would still work on all the emulators.
I have not messed with this stuff in a long time, so can't be a whole lot of help.
I need to get back into it. I have wii guns working on my cab, but need to get them both working in all games.
purbeast:
--- Quote from: BadMouth on May 12, 2023, 12:04:40 pm ---"USB2Gun" was just the name a shady vendor was using for reselling the GlobalVR board as a new product. They made a manual, but don't think they ever sold any.
Project showing it working: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,138723.msg1433282.html#msg1433282
The project thread should contain useful info.
Manual: https://service.globalvr.com/downloads/aa/040-0143-01_Americas_Army_Manual-web.pdf
That board shows up as joysticks, thus works with any emulator that can utilize a joystick for each gun.
(MAME, other emulators with helper programs like Demulshooter)
You mentioned in another thread that you had a board that shows up as a mouse.
That would work for any emulator that can utilize multiple mice, which is probably limited to MAME.
But it may work with some type of helper program to convert the mouse input to joystick input.
Outside of MAME 1 player would still work on all the emulators.
I have not messed with this stuff in a long time, so can't be a whole lot of help.
I need to get back into it. I have wii guns working on my cab, but need to get them both working in all games.
--- End quote ---
Okay thanks, that manual helps understand each connector on the board and I think I have an idea of how I'd have to pass stuff through there.
I am guessing that the JPAC VGA cable would go to USB2GUN IN, and then USB2GUN OUT would go to the PC.
As for the other board I have, I have 2 of them but haven't tested them so I am not sure if they work and if they do, if they are recognized as a mouse or not.
Do you know where I would go in windows to see if they are recognized, and what they are recognized as?
I may play around with it this weekend if I have time, but not sure I will with Mother's Day, the new Zelda, and the NBA playoffs lol.
BadMouth:
In recent versions of Windows:
Control Panel>Hardware & Sound>Devices & Printers
If it shows up as a gamepad/joystick you can right click on it to go to controller settings, then properties for the input test, calibration and settings.
It was a lot easier to find in XP.
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