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| purbeast:
Man okay so now I'm even MORE confused... I am trying to get Singe to work with these guns, and talking with the devs, I need to get my gun to act as a mouse in order for it to work with that emulator. So I tried to find some applications and I found this Joy2Mouse application that turns your controllers into mimic absolute mouse position. Well after I got the app working, I noticed that the cursor is moving EXACTLY like the cursor in MAME is. Check out this video of just the cursor moving around in the desktop. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_G1nZ9HXUT4 The setting I am using is "Absolute - from center to center" as shown in this link below: https://haxor.no/en/article/joy2mouse#ch_2 So now I am wondering wtf... is MAME using this same mechanism, and if so, how were other people getting it so accurate but I am not? It's just so strange that I can have perfect tracking with Friction, Silent Hill, and Virtua Cop, but then MAME and now using this tool that just turns the analog stick into absolute mouse, it's behaving the same way. So confused... EDIT: Here is the MAME calibration issue on video - you can see it behaves identically to the Joy2Mouse video. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Vvzp5Pj38fU |
| purbeast:
Well I still have no clue what is going on with this. I compared the MAME log files between my 2 MAME pcs where it is tracking fine and where it is not, and there is nothing that sticks out as different. The one thing that I can think of that was different between how I set these 2 PCs up is that my first MAME pc was setup and hooked to my 4:3 monitor when I connected the USB2GUN to it. When I setup this new MAME pc, I had the USB2GUN board hooked up from the very start when I installed Windows, and using my 16:9 monitor to get the crtemudrivers all setup. My theory now is that when it initially installed the drivers, it installed them for the 16:9 monitor, which could explain why the X axis is off as I move further out from center of the screen. I tried uninstalling the drivers and then rebooted and let windows reinstall them, but even in the device history it still had the old stuff in there so it knew it existed. So I think my next step is to basically redo this new MAME computer, and I'm going to get it all setup with crtemudrivers and MAME and everything without ever connecting the usb2gun board to it. And then once I have it all setup, make sure the first time I plug in my USB2GUN board that the desktop is in 320x240 mode (4:3) when it installs the drivers for it. I am crossing my fingers that this works. I'm currently backing everything up before I reset it all up tonight. |
| purbeast:
Well I got this working now finally, and I honestly think it was a total PEBCAK by myself this whole time... I cannot confirm whether or not my new installation is why it fixed it, but I don't believe that is the case. The guns were calibrated worse this time initially. So I went into calibration and set it all up and it was fine, however in MAME it was not seeing my changes and still really messed up so I was like wtf. Then I went back into calibration, calibrated it, and it showed tracking fine and all, but in MAME nothing. Then I went back again, and initially I notice the little box that shows the tracking is all messed up, but after I calibrate, it's good to go. THEN I thought - wait, is there an apply button? I am running 320x240 and it's super hard to actually maneuver in Windows like this and I can't see most of the full windows. Well, there was an apply button that was cut off in the bottom right, that I never ever clicked prior. So I found a way to click it and yep, it worked fine in MAME. I am pretty confident this was the issue the entire time. I hope one day this helps someone else out so you don't spend hours and hours trying to figure this out lol. |
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