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Help with the Aimtrak
angryred:
When I was setting up my Aimtrak, I couldn't find any chatter about the axis settings-- I didn't know if I should leave them alone or what. But like I said, on the games that were running in their native resolutions, the MAME gun cursor wasn't moving at a 1:1 movement like the desktop cursor was; instead, it was slower and would not reach the edges of the screen. Usually, I had to double the axis sensitivity to achieve a 1:1 movement.
Now that I think about it, though, I have no idea if the axis settings I was adjusting were at their defaults. Prior to the Aimtrak, I had some gun games controlled by my analog sticks. It's possible I had already adjusted those settings when setting them up to work the analogs, so for all I know I returned the axis settings to their default.
But yeah, it was the X and Y axis sensitivities in Analog Controls in the Tab menu that I was playing with. Most of the time I was adjusting them from a 20-30% value to somewhere around 75-100%, depending on the game. I raised the values until the cursor was able to reach the edge of the screen, then bumped the values a bit until the MAME cursor followed my gunsight perfectly. Once that's done, then I use the in-game calibration. After those 2 steps, I can turn off the MAME cursor completely and get good accuracy.
Now, if somebody out there knows for sure that that's not how I was supposed to set things up, I sure would like to know how it really works. Working fine for me, though. :)