EMS TopgunII and MAMEUI 32/64

[nate89]

I tried to do some searches on here but found nothing really pertaining to the problem I am having. Currently I am trying to use the ems topgun II on my desktop that I have a 22in lcd screen hooked up to. I can calibrate the gun and the mouse tracks correctly and accurately. However I cannot figure out for the life of me, how to set mameui up to read the gun. When I enter a shooting game the cursor doesn't move at all with the gun but if I move my mouse it still works. Once I get this problem figured out, hopefully with some of your guys help, I want to start using it on my laptop so I can hook it up to my 52in plasma I have in the basement. Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated.

[swamprat96]

only done this under mame but the idea is the same. IN MameUI go to Options- default game options controller mapping. Set the lightgun device to lightgun and play with the mouse setting- maybe lightgun

[nate89]

I believe that I have tried this already, but currently am not at home. Are there any other suggestions that anyone may have as to why it wouldn't be working correctly?

[swamprat96]

In mame this is controlled by the mame.ini file eg:

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# CORE INPUT OPTIONS
#
coin_lockout              1
ctrlr                     
mouse                     0
joystick                  0
lightgun                  1
multikeyboard             0
multimouse                1
steadykey                 0
offscreen_reload          1
joystick_map              auto
joystick_deadzone         0.3
joystick_saturation       0.85
The main issue is multimouse and lightgun

Then you can individually tweak using the mame menu in the games and the setup option in each game (F2) - and you can in Mame32 as well

IN mame UI (this works for me- just tested) - (Controllers Tab)Lightgun ON, Multiple mice on , offscreen shots reload, Enable mouse input on

Both guns work.

[nate89]

Well I just got back home, haven't tried to get it to work on my desktop yet. Was hoping to get some luck with the laptop, but apparently there are no drivers for vista 64? Has anyone been able to do this successfully? If so how have you done it? Thanks again.

[nate89]

When in mame, I am trying this out on Area 51, I can change the firing button, but it says gun 3 and not gun 1, while the controls for the x and y axis say gun 1. What am I doing wrong here? This is on my desktop which has windows xp sp2 and running mameui 32 latest version which i think is .132. How do I set my gun to gun 1 instead of gun 3?

[swamprat96]

welcome to the joys of usb, Mame and lightguns.
1. Can I suggest you install normal mame to get this working first? Its much better known and there are heaps of threads in this forum to help you.
2. regardless it sounds like windows and mame are recognising your gun as Gun3. This is probably because two other mice device are present. Presuming we are talking about your laptop here your onboard mouse is mouse 1- ie Gun1. If you have an external mouse in as well then its Mouse 2 - yep Gun 2. So your next available mouse (Gun) is Gun3.

You could just change the x and Y axis to Gun3 and it will work. see http://www.act-labs.com/LightGunSetUp/LightGunSetUp.htm  as a guide but you'd have to do this for each game (yes I know its for Act labs but the principles are the same).

But when it comes to your dedicated PC for the cab IF you have no other mouse device needed - remove the mouse before setting up the gun(s) and the guns will then be gun1 and Gun 2

If you do need to have another mouse device then you need a cfg file for the controllers. Not sure how thats done in Mame32- but can probably find out

[nate89]

I actually stumbled upon that around 30 mins ago and finally have the gun working. I still want to get the gun working on my laptop though so it can be portable and I can use it on other tvs and what not. Has anyone had any success with vista 64? That's the OS on my laptop. Thanks for all the help though, I appreciate it.

[swamprat96]

sorry no- the lack of Vista 64 drivers for the topgun has been bemoaned many times here. No known solution for this. They don't have 64 bit drivers for XP either