I decided to start a new thread about this instead of the other happ emulation thread I was kind of hijacking.
I have a Friction I/O board and tested it out with my MAME PC that I have Hyperspin setup in, and I kind of got it tracking. One monitor it tracked OK and one monitor I couldn't get it to track at all, which happened to be the same monitor that Friction in general would not track with - so I'm guessing it's the Friction IO board.
So I got a USB2GUN board and basically have it connected the same way - VGA in/out going to it, USB plug going to PC, and powered with the PSU. I see 2 solid red LED lights on it so I know it's getting power.
However inside of Windows, it's not finding it. I looked at all the jumpers and everything is set correctly. I don't see anything at all in the device manager. I also noticed when I remove the USB plug, the screen goes all weird, which is very odd to me and not what I would have expected.
With the Friction board, even with no guns attached, it would show up in device manager as a controller named CRTGUN and would have 2 guns on it if the guns were attached. Also, with the Friction board, just pressing the trigger at any point would cause a screen flash in Windows.
But again, I am not seeing anything at all with this with the USB2GUN board. I don't see any screen flash and I don't see it in device manager, which makes sense as to why the guns aren't causing flashes.
I believe this is a Windows 11 machine. So could that be the problem that it's "too new" of an OS or something? I'd think it would be backwards compatible and work but so far I can't find anything. It also isn't connected to the internet but I would think even if it found the new device and couldn't get drivers, it would still show up as "unknown" or something.
I am going to try hooking up the USB2GUN to my Windows 10 desktop at some point and see if it is recognized in there.
I purchased this from someone who said it was working when pulled so I am taking his word that it worked fine.
Is there something I am doing wrong and something I have to do to get it to show up?
Thanks.