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purbeast:
So I made a bit more progress...

I remember reading in his thread I believe about turning the brightness up when calibrating, so I gave that a try by turning the brightness and contrast all the way up, and I was getting tracking responses!

You can see it in the video here:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/H-f7bYQlEgo

I tried playing Lethal Enforcers though and the problem is, I don't know how to set it up so that it uses the gamepad for the controller instead of the joysticks, which are mapped to the keyboard.

I am running Hyperspin on this so it could be that I have to set something up in there before running it, but I'll play around with it a bit more later on.

I also remembered that the monitor which was originally in my Maximum Force cabinet and is now in the KI2 cabinet, had issues with a bunch of light gun games not tracking and I swapped it with my KI2 cab and it tracks much better. So the whole tracking issue could possibly just be a monitor issue.

I think now I have to figure out how to tell the MAME I am running through Hyperspin to work with the gamepad that it thinks the guns are.

BadMouth:
Can't help with Hyperspin.
Look up a tutorial for setting up other guns in Hyperspin/MAME (jaybee, aimtrack, etc). Setup should be the same as any other gun that shows up as an analog stick.

Keep in mind that these aren't like regular digital joystick games where the controls for all the games will just work out of the box. You will have to calibrate the guns in the service menu (usually F2) of every game individually. You will have to adjust the deadzone, joystick saturation & sensitivity in MAME.ini or else you'll have a 30% deadzone and crosshairs that lag.

For other emulators you will have to use helper programs like demulshooter, but I'm sure someone out there has made a hyperspin tutorial or preconfigured setup for Jaybee's guns.

purbeast:

--- Quote from: BadMouth on May 12, 2023, 09:37:31 pm ---Can't help with Hyperspin.
Look up a tutorial for setting up other guns in Hyperspin/MAME (jaybee, aimtrack, etc). Setup should be the same as any other gun that shows up as an analog stick.

Keep in mind that these aren't like regular digital joystick games where the controls for all the games will just work out of the box. You will have to calibrate the guns in the service menu (usually F2) of every game individually. You will have to adjust the deadzone, joystick saturation & sensitivity in MAME.ini or else you'll have a 30% deadzone and crosshairs that lag.

For other emulators you will have to use helper programs like demulshooter, but I'm sure someone out there has made a hyperspin tutorial or preconfigured setup for Jaybee's guns.

--- End quote ---

Cool thanks yeah I will see if I can do some digging and figure it out.

I also don't NEED to use HyperSpin or anything like that. It is just what I am testing all this out with to see if theoretically I can build a new PC to put in my light gun cabinet for strictly light gun games.

When you mention modifying mame.ini, what exactly are you referring to? I've seen this mentioned on HyperSpin forums but I didn't really see any details as to what people are modifying.

EDIT:

Oh and one thing worth mentioning...

When I tried out Lethal Enforcers in MAME, the trigger actually fires the gun it's just the tracking that isn't working. I was able to go into the config for LE and set the P1 button to the trigger and it recognized it. But if I move the joystick on my cab to move the cursor, then use the gun trigger to fire, it works.

purbeast:
So I tried hooking up the PC to my other cabinet today and I am having no luck calibrating at all. In calibration I can't even get it to track at all after going through the windows calibration. It finds the guns and stuff as it did on the other cabinet, however it simply isn't moving at all after calibrating. I upped the brightness and contrast and stuff and it didn't help.

The monitor in question is a WG U2000 if anyone has tried one of these before.

I thought it would work BETTER on this monitor since light gun games track noticeably better on it, especially around the edges of the screen.

EDIT:

I even turned the SCREEN up really high on the flyback so the screen was super white with the lines through it, and it didn't track at all after calibrating.

BadMouth:
Having never actually used the device, I'm not sure that I can help much further.

Does the resolution and refresh rate of the monitor match one of the supported ones listed in the Opti-Gun manual?

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