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Kirky:

Thanks, you're right, I couldn't find anything anywhere, a FAQ would be great...  Somewhere, anywhere, it doesn't matter...  Google thinks I'm looking for Amtrac...

Anyway, after a little playing around, I went and reassigned the device IDs to 1 and 4 I believe.  lightgun_device = lightgun (minus the =) didn't do anything.  In the MAME Player 1 Control config screen, I could see moving the gun up and down scrolled like it would with the mouse, however upon assignment, it wouldn't recognize that movement.  I changed it back to lightgun_device mouse and it worked.  My guns are detended as GUN 4 and GUN 5.  It wouldn't recognize the trigger or button (Guncon shell) as pressed, so I went in and enabled Joystick (joystick 1) and now it does.  So, movemet is detected as GUN X and buttons are detected as JOYSTICK X BUTTON X

I set dual_lightgun back to 0 as well...

I'm on MAME .135 if it matters, using the stock vanilla i686 optimized sources from MAMEDEV.ORG.

Sounds like this is totally non standard, so if anyone has some directions, maybe even for a basic out of the box MAME config, I'm sure they would be appreciated in the community.

bkenobi:

IIRC, the AimTrak sends button presses as joysticks and the movement as mouse.  As such, you wouldn't expect to see the lightgun trigger show up as lightgun or mouse.  Yes, you would need joystick enabled to have the triggers work.

Ragtag83:

My mame.ini to get my dual AimTraks working:

joystick                1
lightgun                1
multikeyboard             0
multimouse                1
steadykey               0
offscreen_reload        1

lightgun_device         lightgun

dual_lightgun           0

Mame reads the additional buttons as joystick buttons but the trigger is still read as a gun, or it comes up so on mine. I am still working on my system. It's only software being controlled by the AimTraks with Mala as the FE. A somewhat portable system to be plugged into any PC with minor adjustments to get working.  I must say thanks to this forum for otherwise I wouldn't have made it this far.  :applaud: I am currently playing HOD2 and 3 PC version, Time Crisis psxfin version, and dozen Mame games. It's been a blast. Sadly the system I am working on is for my brother so when it's complete I will need to get my gun wired up...though that will also be more fun.

I am wondering though if it is actually possible to get epsxe working with the AimTraks. I've tried but all I get is a bouncing cursor all over the screen.  I also read that Demul has lightgun support but my current computer can't run it yet to try it out, anybody try it?

bkenobi:

you can also do:

multimouse                0
dual_lightgun              1


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