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Title: HELP: Area51 reload in Mame32
Post by: unclet on May 06, 2004, 12:38:27 pm

I just set up my act-labs TV USB light gun and I am playing area 51.  The gun works fine now, except when I try to reload (ie: hitting the button on the side of the gun) nothing happens.

I saw a past forum post stating to use AnalogMame+ and one which posted some ctrl.ini file but I have no idea how to actually utilize either of these suggestions.    Anyway, is there a way I could use my current Mame32 and have the gun reload work properly?

Title: Re:HELP: Area51 reload in Mame32
Post by: DaveJ-UK on May 06, 2004, 12:43:59 pm

I'm not aware of any arcade gun games where you press a button to reload, you always have to shoot outside the screen...

Title: Re:HELP: Area51 reload in Mame32
Post by: unclet on May 06, 2004, 12:50:06 pm

I tried shooting off the screen as well, nothing happens..... any ideas what I need to do?

Title: Re:HELP: Area51 reload in Mame32
Post by: RacerX on May 06, 2004, 05:16:29 pm

Unfortunately, with MAME32 you have to shoot the exact edge of the screen.  Shooting off of the screen won't do it.

I think there is a MAME hack that will work correctly (does NoName MAME do this or MAME analog+?).

Title: Re:HELP: Area51 reload in Mame32
Post by: NoOne=NBA= on May 06, 2004, 05:39:12 pm

The only GOOD solution at this point (AFAIK) is the unlimited ammo cheat.

The reload thing they built into MAME recently "almost" works.
It is designed to move the cursor to the (0,0) coordinate, and then fire.
It usually fires before it completely gets to (0,0) though.
The reason the "fire off screen" reload doesn't work in most games is that the Act-Labs gun fires at the last aim point if you press the fire button when it can't see the screen.

There are some arcade games that let you use the reload button.
I can't think of which ones at the moment, but they ARE out there.

Title: Re:HELP: Area51 reload in Mame32
Post by: MrBond on May 06, 2004, 10:50:05 pm

I have gotten the reload to work using NoName32xp.exe http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=91067&package_id=95932 (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=91067&package_id=95932)

You may have to press 'tab' during gameplay and go to 'inputs (this game)' and change
player 1 button 1 to left mouse click (shoot the lightgun), and
player 1 button 2 to right mouse click (button on side of your gun).

Now you should be able to press the button and it will reload.

Title: Re:HELP: Area51 reload in Mame32
Post by: unclet on May 07, 2004, 08:00:57 am

How do I turn on the unlimited ammo cheat in Mame32?