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ActLabs - MAME - Readl Arcade RGB Monitor? Only works outside of MAME
Chris:
Try Sharpshooter as a test game. It seems to be the easiest and most accurate with the Act-Labs gun.
--Chris
P-r0t:
well i didn't think it would make a difference, but it apparently did. Enableing hardware stretching WORKED!!! but sadly I don't like the blurry look on the cabinet, almost defeats the purpose.
Also the gun appears to be horribly inaccurate! the grey calliberation screen doesnt come up with hw stretching enabled but for the most part its accurate except for games that require a reload and point off screen... that part takes about 10 or so tries to work.
It also might be the think piece of plexi glass i have in front of the monitor. I'll try it later tonight with it removed.
For the most part I've heard good feedback about this gun, so I'll assume that either my gun is defective or it simply doesn't like my monitor.
if anyone's intersted i have a Sharp 26" monitor in this pirticular cabinet.
P-r0t
Chris:
There's a patch to MAME that fixes the shoot offscreen and reload bug. I've applied it and it works perfectly.
The gun's calibration calibrates it to the actual full screen, so if your image doesn't fill the screen, the gun will be accurate near the center but off near the edges. If the grey calibration screen doesn't come up, the gun certainly won't be accurate. My grey calibration screen does come up with hardware stretch on...
--Chris
Zinfari:
You may have already read this on the Ultimarc site, but in the forum over there is a thread going regarding this. Sounds like they are having mixed results. Maybe they will have some tips. In looking over the threads I haven't seen anyone with XP run it successfully, but not everyone is posting their specs.
http://www.ultimarc.com/wwwboard.html
Oh yea and here was another thread here regarding this issue.
http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=4949
Good Luck,
-Zinfari
P-r0t:
Hmm intersting news!
Thanks for the replies, any chance you can point me to the location to that mame light gun patch? i checked on mame.net and didn't see it as an official download.
Thanks
P-r0t