Anyone else try the LCD top gun with .118?

[mrserv0n]

Ok I really hate to bring up this gun in this forum again lol. Actually mind works perfect I love it, that is with .117


.118, windows uses the gun for the mouse etc, in MAME it recognizes the buttons on the gun but will not recognize the X/Y axis of the gun, its as if its not hooked up.

I know they made some gun changes to .118, I have my settings set to what I did for .117 so I know its ready to work, just missing something here...

If its too much hassle Ill go back to .117 but now im curious... Im running MAME32 .118 btw.

[brock.sampson]

I had some issues when I jumped to .118 as well.  Can you post the ctrlr section of your mame.ini?  This was my original post http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=70063.msg716984#msg716984 when I was having problems with getting them working the same as previous versions of mame.

[mrserv0n]

Here is my .INI


#
# CORE INPUT OPTIONS
#
ctrlr                     
mouse                     0
joystick                  0
lightgun                  0
multikeyboard             0
multimouse              0
steadykey                 0
offscreen_reload      0
joystick_map              auto
joystick_deadzone         0.3
joystick_saturation       0.85

#
# CORE INPUT AUTOMATIC ENABLE OPTIONS
#
paddle_device            keyboard
adstick_device             keyboard
pedal_device              keyboard
dial_device                keyboard
trackball_device         keyboard
lightgun_device          keyboard
positional_device         keyboard
mouse_device             mouse

[brock.sampson]

Try these settings

#
# CORE INPUT OPTIONS
#
ctrlr                     
mouse                     0
joystick                  0
lightgun                  0
multikeyboard             0
multimouse              0
steadykey                 0
offscreen_reload      0
joystick_map              auto
joystick_deadzone         0.3
joystick_saturation       0.85

#
# CORE INPUT AUTOMATIC ENABLE OPTIONS
#
paddle_device            keyboard
adstick_device             keyboard
pedal_device              keyboard
dial_device                keyboard
trackball_device         keyboard
lightgun_device          lightgun
positional_device         keyboard
mouse_device             mouse

The way it was explained to me setting lightgun_device  to lightgun will by default set lightgun to 1.  I found that I needed to set both.   So try changing lightgun_device first.  If that still doesn't work try lightgun 1.  I also have offscreen_reload and multimouse both set to 1.

[mrserv0n]

Ok I will try it out in a few, but what confuses me is these arnt lightguns, its technically a mouse as far as both mame and windows is concerned.. so why wouldnt lightgun be mouse...?

[brock.sampson]

In .118 it actually shows up as gun 1 and gun 2 not as gun on mouse 1 as it did in previous versions.

[mrserv0n]

Hmm still not getting any results from changing to lightgun or changing lightgun to 1, Recognizes buttons just not Axis when I try to TAB config in mame..

I would just drop back to .117 and forget it but then I will be trapped as this new change will probably continue on with future versions..

This might help

For example when playing area 51

joystick 1 controls the player 1 target, optical mouse controls player one target too.

Joystick 2 controls player 2 target.

This theres anything there of help? Maybe optical mouse is overiding the lcd topgun?

[mrserv0n]

Got it going, thanks a lot for the help guys. Always great here.

[Lakersfan]

what did you do to fix it?

[mrserv0n]

Well I not only had to modify the .ini file but I had to change it for each individual game because I had them manually set to mouse I think?

Also the thing thats happening to me now is my gun is moving both player 1 and 2 targets so I have to change player 2s config in the TAB menu per game, kind of annoying but as long as it works its fine only about 7 of them I play anyway