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Lightgun Calibration is NOT fun...
deano728:
Exactly how far away from the screen is ideal? If I can calibrate and the laser blinks when I shoot at the corners of the screen, is that far enough away? I am standing about 4 feet away from the cabinet and I had the LED's mounted horizontally attached directly to the monitor. I REALLY would like to see this thing work as well. I couldn't be bummed more. And to think I bought 2 of these things!!!
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on April 15, 2008, 10:53:18 pm ---I found a review that states that the sweet spot for these guns with a 29" monitor is two meters from the screen. A 25" would be marginally closer. Positioning the IR bars vertically vs horizontally also effects his distancing.
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--- Quote from: deano728 on April 19, 2008, 02:07:35 pm --- I am standing about 4 feet away from the cabinet and I had the LED's mounted horizontally attached directly to the monitor.
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2 meters translates to about 6 1/2 feet.
wbassett:
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on April 19, 2008, 06:12:01 pm ---
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on April 15, 2008, 10:53:18 pm ---I found a review that states that the sweet spot for these guns with a 29" monitor is two meters from the screen. A 25" would be marginally closer. Positioning the IR bars vertically vs horizontally also effects his distancing.
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--- Quote from: deano728 on April 19, 2008, 02:07:35 pm --- I am standing about 4 feet away from the cabinet and I had the LED's mounted horizontally attached directly to the monitor.
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2 meters translates to about 6 1/2 feet.
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How big is your monitor? Right now I have a 21" monitor I am using and in order to get the gun to even calibrate I had to stand around 6' back. That's a bit far for a 21" monitor in my opinion. I still have to play around with it some more though.
stan2323:
I have just got a LCD Topgun. I have it tracking good and the buttons working in Windows. In Mame I see the cursor and it moves OK tracking the red dot. When I push tab set the lightgun X and Y it pops in the box and gun X and gun Y The only problem I have it that I can not get Mame to see the trigger press to shoot the gun. If I stand close to the CP and set the trigger to another button I can press it and play like that. I did that to see what would happen. I have tried Joy 2 Key but I can not get that to work so far. I think that I may have Joy 2 Key set wrong. I am going to work more on that is the next few days. If I could get around this one problem I think they would be good. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I tried Wingun, and Smogs drivers. I was not able to get either of them working. Wingun would track in Windows but not in Mame. It was not too accurate either. Smogs was no help at all. I could not get any tracking or anything with them.
I used the IR trouble shooter to look for interference but there is little to none. I did notice that as your moving the guns around the dots move. I used that to draw the limits of the gun so to speak. See how far to one side I can aim and still see all 5 dots, how close I can get and see all 5 dots. I noticed the big problem is when the gun is angled of to the side. That is when it dose not see the IR light and can not figure out where it is. Keeping this in mind when calibrating made a big difference in the accuracy. Angle the gun as little as possible move to the side and move the gun up and down to get a straight shot at the calibration targets. Hope this helps.
System info
Windows XP
P4 3 GHz
1 Gig Ram
Mame124
EasyMame front end
EMSTOPGUN drivers
EMS Mouse2Gun
Multimouse is enabled
Lightgun enabled (have tried both ways)
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