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| Warborg:
Well... I got my Topgun tonight... Sigh... Couldn't get it to detect on my main PC, but I blame the PC for that, I've had some oddness with drivers lately, been trying to backup and reload but haven't really gotten to it lately... So, move it to my arcade PC... I get the pointer when aiming at the screen for the most part, but it kinda flickers in and out in certain spots, and there is like a "dead area" in the lower right corner, about 20% of the screen. The mouse tracks ok, a little laggy and loses track once in a while. Tried Duck Hunt in MAME real quick, pointer was all over the place. Tried PC HOTD1, and the tracking wasn't consistent either, and had the same problem with the lower right corner obviously, but couldn't get the mouse pointer to the bottom of the screen at all. This is using Wingun, BTW. So my first 15 minute impression isn't exactly sparkling, but again I only had about 15 or so minutes to mess with it, so hopefully this weekend I can sit down with it and tinker... But considering I blew a wheel cylinder on the way to UPS that might take up a bit of my time getting it fixed... :-\ |
| darthbane2k:
DAMN YOU LIK SANG! My gun is still not here, and its been 7 DAYS! It does NOT take 7 days to send something from hong kong to the UK, even with bog standard post! |
| Xiaou2:
Just a note to others so they do not make a simular mistake... Make sure the LED stands are installed in the correct way. It needs the stand with the Power light to be on the right side. I had it in reverse.. and kept wondering why I couldnt get it to calibrate correctly! Reversed it, and all was good. |
| Silver:
--- Quote from: patrickmaher on February 02, 2006, 11:35:18 pm ---I read the info about being 2X farther away from the screen than the led stands are from each other. I am assuming this mean where the gun must be so your body would be even farther away. I have a 17" lcd monitor that is 16.5" wide (outer plastic included), this puts the gun 33 inches from the monitor. When I stand back that far and look at the screen it seems kinda far. I went to the arcade last night and tried some light gun games, I'm guessing they were 29" screens and I really doubt I was anywhere near 60" away from the screen (I know it doesn't matter on these games). I guess my question is, do you really need to stand that far away or is that just a suggestion for best results? How far can you push the ratio of led stand distance and distance from screen before you get problems? It seems like it would be pretty hard to play from that far away. I guess it would reduce the distance if you mounted the leds horizontally as someone showed earlier in this thread (unless your screen is vertical). --- End quote --- Quick thought on distance. You should be able to place the LED stands above and below your screen, which is a shorter distance than side to side. (You can play with the gun sideways or upsidedown no problem). You will just have to make sure that you hardware calibrate the guns as they are expecting (so top left will be bottom left and so on). Once calibrated it should work fine normally, and you should be able to stand closer. Compared to arcade games, I don't know. With typical optical guns like a normal guncon2 or "light" gun which flashes the screen, yes you can get closer but they have there own problems. I know similar infra technology is used in the arcade of HOTD2 or HOTD3, so I don't know how close you can get for them. |
| Silver:
Good News. Altering the initial offset for the GunInputPorts in the drivers for Lethal enforcers (lethal.c) and Lethal Enforcers 2 (konamigx.c) has solved the tracking problems for both games, and both now appear to play accurately. The specific code changes have been posted here before, and I've summarised them on my site. You can download a pre-compiled mame with the changes from Minwah here: http://mamewah.mameworld.net/mametest.zip (PASTE INTO BROWSER, DON'T CLICK!) or from me here: http://www.silverfoxy.f2s.com/mame103le2hack.zip Both downloads are around 9meg, although Minwahs mametest.exe once unzipped is 35meg big (its uncompressed), but mine is the normal 9meg. They are both the same exe, compiled by Minwah. I can only assume the initial offsets were done to move the cursor off the screen at startup so it did not get in the way (not an issue when using a mouse). |
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