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syph007:

I don't think it would work well at all without the crosshair on due to the way the gun works.  For example if you hold the gun and pivot your body with gun moving, the crosshair and sites DO NOT line up at all points of the screen.  If the pivot point is the gun itself, then the crosshair and sites line up, but who plays like that?  There will need to be more tweaks to the software to be able to use it without crosshairs.

Ginsu Victim:

I do enjoy playing this way, but I was hoping to play without crosshairs. I am satisfied with my purchase, only I can't use it the way I'd thought I would (at least not yet....here's hoping something changes with updates and better calibration on my part).

bkenobi:


--- Quote from: syph007 on October 01, 2009, 08:42:43 am ---2.  Since I have to manually config MAME when I tab in and try to tell it what analog axis to use for P1, I hit enter then move the gun on x or y.  Every single time it detects both axis so it add x_axis AND y_axis.  No matter how carefully I move it I cant get it to add just one.  The only way I have made it work is by manually editing the cfg file and just putting in the axis I want.

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That's the way my GunCon2's have needed to be setup.  Sometimes (1 out of 10 or so), I can get MAME to detect the correct direction and not put both in, but it's not really worth the hassle.  I usually just put in some setting for each axis and map the buttons for each player then manually edit things so they are correct.  I don't know for sure, but I suspect this has to do with the fact that the gun will twitch a few pixels as it sits in one place. 

If the gun doesn't work without the cross hairs turned on, then it's not a gun IMO.  You can do better than that with the GunCon2, it's just a PITA to get working (and it doesn't work with LCD's).

syph007:

Well I turned off all crosshairs and gave that a 'shot'.  Works ok, I'd say I was hitting about 90% of shots compared to crosshairs on.  I found though I really didnt like playing that way, I liked knowing where the shot would hit.. I guess thats like having a real gun with a laser sight.   So I turned back on the crosshairs and like it better that way.  It's not perfect I guess, but its fun and I don't regret the purchase at all.

Ginsu Victim:

Yeah, it's not exactly like playing a proper arcade or console lightgun, but it's fun and I love my purchase.

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