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| mhermann:
From what research I have done and through other posts made here and on other boards the low level mouse driver is the only thing that will work in Mame without changing Mame source. At least for 2 guns at once. |
| mhermann:
Also, just finished my last class for my masters in software engineering. Now all I have left is either a project or a paper. If I can get a group together at school who like gaming, I have a great project we can use. ;D But the point being I should have some more time to work on this. |
| u_rebelscum:
--- Quote from: mhermann on June 19, 2008, 11:34:05 pm ---From what research I have done and through other posts made here and on other boards the low level mouse driver is the only thing that will work in Mame without changing Mame source. At least for 2 guns at once. --- End quote --- An analog joystick driver would work just as well with mame*, also without any editing mame source. Maybe even better than a mouse if you give the axes 10 or 12 bits per axis instead of the old standard of 8 bits. (*Just because the actlab joystick lightguns didn't work well with mame, does not in any way or form mean that the poor performance was due to the joystick interface. Especially since analog joysticks work fine. It was the calibration that was a pain, plus mame's analog code has had major changes since then. The sensitivity is now linear; it used to be logarithmic with just totally screwed up calibration if anything but 100%.) But yes, either mouse driver that's RawInput compatible and includes absolute analog data instead of just the relative analog data of a normal mouse, or a joystick driver that's directInput compatible with work in mame. |
| wbassett:
My vote and opinion is I really don't care whether it's mouse or joystick... as long as it works and is easy to get running! :) |
| mhermann:
Ok looks like I am going with the Wiiuse wiimote library written in C. I also purchased a Windows Device driver book from amazon (should be here next week). This thing is going to be XP only to start but I hope I can port it to Vista (No vista driver book yet). I picked this book because it is more of a beginners guide to developing device drivers for windows. And most of the stuff I have read so far has made me lost. So I need to develop a base knowledge to get started. Now there do seem to be some Linux drivers out there that might work. But that is one area of computing I have yet to really work with outside of hacking my Tivo (need to boot to a linux disc to upgrade the hard drive). So for those using Linux, if anyone could test out using 2 wiimotes it would be appreciated. |
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