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Title: Gun Games with mame
Post by: Marky_1979 on June 20, 2005, 05:37:03 am

Im interested to know what guns will work with mame games and what games are there available i can only really remember terminator 2, pointblank and virtua cop series are these working on mame and are there others?

And how would i conect the gun is it as simple as just plugging into a usb port or would mame not recognise etc?

Hope im making myself clear sorry if not  :-[

Many Thanks

Marky

Title: Re: Gun Games with mame
Post by: elvis on June 20, 2005, 06:28:26 am

http://www.mameworld.net/maws/srch.php?control=7

All MAME lightgun games.

Title: Re: Gun Games with mame
Post by: Tiger-Heli on June 20, 2005, 07:08:33 am

Quote from: elvis on June 20, 2005, 06:28:26 am

http://www.mameworld.net/maws/srch.php?control=7
All MAME lightgun games.

Actually, I think that list is all MAME gun games -

First off, there are two types of games -

Positional Games - These basically had a machine gun mounted like an analog joystick.  I'm pretty sure T2, and some of the Operation (Wolf, Bear, Thunderbolt?), and maybe Revolution X used this type of control.  These can be played (less realistically) using an analog joystick.  They might be able to be played with a lightgun, but that is basically a hack to play the game with improper controls.

The other category is true lightgun games such as Area 51, etc.  These could be played with a mouse, but really want a true lightgun.

For the guns - I think all of the guns also run through the video cable as well as plugging into the USB ports.  KevSteele has a review of most of the options at http://www.retroblast.com/reviews/lightgun1.html  There is also a lot of WIP going on to add support for the Namco PS2 Guncom 2 to MAME.