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Main => Consoles => Topic started by: Kirkanos on July 19, 2017, 10:47:44 am
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I have an Aimtrak Lightgun without recoil (https://www.arcadeworlduk.com/products/AimTrak-Arcade-Light-Gun-With-Line-Of-Sight-Aiming.html) and am trying to get it to work with a PS2 but it does not.
I have read through the setup guide and the PS2 guide but to no avail.
When I first tried it I could get into calibration mode by holding the the 2 buttons when turning the PS2 on but I couldn't do anything once I was there. I never saw any cursor and even though I could shoot (the screen flashed and I got a shooting sound), I couldn't do anything else.
I did manage to start Time Crisis II with the gun and it seemed that I could shoot things but only if I only made minute gun movements. The reload also worked when I moved the gun away from the screen.
I eventually found that the sensor was not working as the connector that connects to the sensor PCB was not fully connected. When using a mobile phone camera, I could not see the LEDs.
Once I pushed the connector on more securely the phone camera picked up the LEDs without any problems and continues to detect the sensors as being on/active.
I plugged it all back into the PS2 and again I could start calibration mode by holding the 2 buttons but again I could not see a cursor! I unplugged and re-plugged and since then I cannot even get into calibration mode. Nothing happens when I press the buttons.
Notes
The gun works perfectly on a PC. I can move the cursor and I can select items by pressing the trigger or if I configure the buttons I can use these to select.
Using the Aimtrak v2.0 config utility on my PC:
- SENSOR VIEW CHECK works (although the red dot moves in the opposite direction to gun i.e. left is right and up is down)
- SHOW DATA works. I can see the X and Y coordinates etc changing. Nothing appears in the Cal Status field
- Firmware: 9.19
- The gun is set for ID:1
- Calibrate works
- Button Assignments (changed numerous times), On and Off screen configs being the same and set as
- TRIG: Mouse Left
- LEFT: GP Button 1 with Enable Cal set
- RIGHT: GP Button 2 with Enable Cal set
- Tilt / Z Correction: Continuous
- Recoil: 2.5 (the gun does not have recoil)
- IR Gain: 4
- Disable Auto Gain: Checked
- Cal Delay (Secs): 5
- Emulate Mouse
As mentioned above, these are the current settings. I have changed all them to different settings previously.
I have also tested using both Time Crisis II and III and tested on both a Slim and Fat PS2.
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I have never used mine with a PS2 so cant really help much sorry!
Your best bet will probably be to contact Andy at Ultimarc directly and hopefully he can help you out.
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A good reason to skip Ultimarc. Nothing but problems lately. ::)
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What problems would they be the Ark?
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What problems would they be the Ark?
Oh boy! Where to start?
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What problems would they be the Ark?
Oh boy! Where to start?
The beginning is usually a good starting point.
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I'm thinking that based on further investigations my Aimtrak issue might be down to upgrading to the latest firmware: 9.19.
Before I upgraded I was on 1.3 but this just confuses the hell out of me when I now read (must have been a bit too eager to do the upgrade to read this note), that you shouldn't upgrade to a version with a different first digit!
I could only find one upgrade version though so I used that. It just happened to be 9.19.
How do I rollback or even find the latest 1.xx firmware version?
Also, the PS2 setup guide states that the games were tested with version 8.11 but the *IMPORTANT* note seems to suggest that I can therefore never reach this 'zenith' of a firmware version.
I noticed another poster had the same question and their problem got resolved but they never gave any hint on how. Again, rather frustrating.
I have emailed Andy @ Ultimark but if anyone can point me to a fix in the meantime, it would be much appreciated.