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ahofle:
To my knowledge, the troubleshooter only helps on some PC games:

http://thetroubleshooter.home.mindspring.com/games.htm

Sounds like you may have some other issues if your shots are not immediately registering.  What happens when you shoot around the desktop in windows?  Does the cursor go where you point, immediately when you pull the trigger?  I am assuming that you've done the actlabs calibration already (set the switch on the gun to calibrate, wave the gun left to right several times and up and down several times, then set the switch back).
RTSDaddy2:
I'm glad you brought the calibration thing up - think that's half my problem.  Now the directions made me think to only do that once, slowly, but apparently one has do make several passes?

I have tried shooting around the desktop - no, it does not move. The other thing I noticed yesterday was that while the trigger might miss, the little button on the top right side of the gun was perfect!!  :banghead:

What I have noticed on the Hogan's Alley game is that each time I pull the trigger it repositions the cursor, and just slightly below or above the characters. 

I'm going to try recalibrating tonight again by waving the gun  in front of the TV and see if I can get the calibration any better.  I am wondering now if the flat front CRT is causing problems - that it's letting light in from too many places during calibration (in other words not center of gun, but far sides as well).   I think if I can ever figure out how to properly calibrate I will have solved some problems.  Then, there is of course the issue of getting everything in MAME set properly too.

RTSDaddy2:
Was re-reading Derrick's page about button mapping, and I think I figured that insanity out finally as I had the single gun on the second position switch.  :dunno

ahofle:
Good deal.  :cheers:
Just a reminder: you need to recalibrate the guns whenever you change the screen resolution.  So if you calibrate the guns while your windows desktop is displaying at 800x600 and then you launch Hogan's Alley at 640x480, you will need to recalibrate after starting MAME.
Silver:

--- Quote from: ahofle on November 03, 2006, 11:18:50 am ---Sounds promising...can you hook yours up and let us know if it works?  ;D

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I would, but I'm afraid I don't have any TV's that have component inputs. Plus my GFX card does not output component....
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