chrisnack, I got my guns last night, took about an hour to get them to work.
I have both working (minus the recoil), but they are frustrating at best.
I have been reading the post:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=48982.0It's on LCD topguns, I am only to page 22 of 43 so far. It's like a novel. "Will the heroes ever get their guns and led strips to work? Will EMS finish their drivers?" I guess I'll have to wait till I finish reading them all, as I don't want to spoil it by skipping to the end.
So far it seems that style of guns might be better suited, but like I said, I haven't gotten to the end yet.
I have the same issue as most of them (after the hardware, the software they use is the same as with guncons), first gun tracks all jittery, second only tracks when fired (XP limitation?). Calibration sucked for two, until I did them one at a time (plugged in that is). The on screen crosshairs in MAME are about 2 inches to the left (but I have the diff from silverfox to fix that, even though those source changes are supposedly in newer releases of MAME that I have already). At first the gun didn't work at all, then they tracked but didn't fire (then I used mame32 to set the necessary settings in mame.ini), now they just have dead spots here and there, lag sometimes, and they REALLY hate dark areas when dragging (lightgun
).
Hopefully their LCD topguns end up working out, because guncons SUCK.
Where did you ever find Smogs drivers? I'd like to try them, but his site is long gone, and it didn't get archived correctly.
Why no one (EMS) ever wrote an actual driver that will let you choose whether to emulate a mouse or a joystick is beyond me. I just wish the devs for mame would have put some more work into a better interface for all guns in general, why emulate lightgun games so perfectly, only to have them be used with a mouse or barely work with the only lightguns available for the pc. I'm talking about a two part solution, a simple driver so the guns get detected in windows, that adheres to a standard needed for MAME, and then have mame deal with the calibration and whatnot. It seems like the real issue is with the fact that all these current drivers try to make the guns into a mouse, and since windows doesn't like multiple mice, it seems destined to fail from the start. I should be able to point a gun at the screen all day, and have it do nothing, while in the background the driver is registering what my resolution is and where in that resolution it last saw my gun pointed, just waiting for MAME to ask about it. What good it speed sacrificing, anal-retentive, exact emulation that you can't play?