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Dual Topgun problems...
Green Giant:
Before anyone says do some research, I have. Read just about all of the massive topgun topic. Also searched and read all the topics about dual gun support.
My trouble is not the integration into mame, it is recognition by windows.
I setup the first gun using Smog's driver. Works great. Moves the mouse around and tracks fine in mame.
Then I tried setting up the second gun. It looked to be working correctly, but it doesn't. The driver installed just like the first gun. I did the hardware calibration, but then when it moves around the screen, nothing happens. I checked the device manager, both appear to be correct. I thought it just wasn't recognized as a third mouse, trackball is first, so I tried it in mame. When I try to input it like the first gun, nothing shows up.
Now it gets worse. I uninstalled all of the guncon drivers in device manager, then I unplugged them both. Rebooted, took the second gun, plugged it in to the location of the first, and ran the driver install again. It did nothing again. Took the first gun, plugged it in to the second guns spot and tried an install. It worked like before.
Now when I open smogs guncon2 program, it shows Guncon ID 1 and ID 2 with red X's. Guncon ID 3 and ID 4 look normal. All of the settings between the two are identical.
Any thoughts, possibly some advice from Smog? I also tried the wheel.gif file thing in the system32 folder.
Green Giant:
Let me rephrase it for anyone out there. If you have dual guns setup, what did you do to setup your second gun.
Did you immediately set it up once the first gun was up? Did it act as a mouse right after? Anything you can offer will help out fixing this.
buks:
Green Giant,
I've just setup my dual Topguns so hopefully I can help.
I'm running :
* smogs latest driver (0.9b6)
* MAME 0.116
I did have some problems initially setting up the guns - The "calibration wizard" that was mentioned in the hlp just wasn't there. In the end I didnt need it though.
First thing I did (which you also appear to have done) was get one gun up and running first.
Then you need to edit your mame.ini and find the sections with this stuff :
mouse 0
joystick 0
lightgun 0
dual_lightgun 1
lightgun_device lightgun
Not sure if the dual_lightgun stuff was added after a particular version of mame - if so then you need to upgrade !
Then plug the gun in and setup using smogs control panel app.
I can't remeber if the 2nd gun controlled the mouse cursor or not though.
Should work in mame........ good luck !
Buks
PS
Most of the info I used was here : http://www.silverfoxy.f2s.com/Topgun.html (silverfox is on byoac so he may be able to shed more light on this subject if my advice is no good).
Green Giant:
I don't think I added the lightgun_device to my mame.ini file, so I will try that later on tonight.
Thanks
Also, do you disconnect your lightguns when booting up your computer? Noticed mine won't boot until I disconnect them. I remember reading something about this, just making sure it is happening to everyone.
buks:
No not had that problem - maybe its something to do with your motherboard/chipset/usb ?
Double check you have the latest smog driver.
If all else fails, theres another set of drivers by a guy called Acorn. Not sure but I think smogs are more recent though.
Good luck tonight !
Buks