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ActLabs - MAME - Readl Arcade RGB Monitor? Only works outside of MAME
P-r0t:
Hi
I'm trying to get this Act Labs usb game gun to work on with my mame cabinet setup.
I'm using the following:
Real arcade RGB monitor.
ArcadeVGA agp card from ultiimarc
Windows XP (sigh.... only went XP for gun compatibility)
P4 2.2Ghz 512DDR ram.
I made the appropiate changes in the mame.ini
lightgun 1
Now heres the tricky part. The gun will work with the windows based games/web based games Act Labs has provided, but not while inside mame.
I chose "point blank" as a game to test with. The game loads and 2 cross hairs appear. After I caliberate the gun I'm able to get one shot off, usually points the P1 cross hair to the bottom left of the screen. After that no more shots are accecpted.
Has anyone seen activity like this?
any help would be greatly appreciated!
thanks!
-P-r0t
Anonymously:
Is the Hardware streaching enable or not?
P-r0t:
Hi,
Thanks for the reply.
No hardware stretching is disabled. Does this need to be enabled for the gun to work ? Also, a bit off topic, but is there a way to enable HW stretching without the filtering effect? I prefer the natural look :)
Thanks
P-r0t
pocketz:
my act labs light gun works in mame with my 27" wellsgardner vga arcade monitor. if you havent already, theres a setting to turn on the light gun in mame...
in mame, click options, then default options, then click enable light gun input.
also, try using the gun in an exidy game like chiller or who dunit. those games are the ones i play and they work fine, ive tried playing some of the nintendo playchoice-10 light gun games and they didnt work correctly.
other than that i dont know what could be the problem.
-pocketz
P-r0t:
hmm I'll give the tab menu a shot. I had thought that enableing it in the config file would have worked, but hey if this works i won't complain :)
Thanks for the tip!
-P-r0t
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