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Title: Topgun II, how do I get both working at the same time?
Post by: vetteguy112233 on February 08, 2009, 01:00:05 am

I had both guns working just fine, but a friend of mine kicked the cord and his gun completely stopped working. Every since then I can only get one or the other gun to fire at the screen. Both guns will recoil and act normal, but only one SHOOTS the screen.

I have reinstalled drivers, checked connections, settings of mame32 and I can get one or the other to work, but not both together. At first I thought maybe he broke the gun, but as I said, I can get one or the other to work. I see the red and blue crosshairs and each gun controls it's own, but only one will SHOOT the screen.

Title: Re: Topgun II, how do I get both working at the same time?
Post by: Loafmeister on February 08, 2009, 04:04:32 pm

Within Mame, press TAB to enter the menu and ensure fire button 1 for the second gun is mapped to the appropriate device. The other day, my gun 1 didn't want to fire but it would track the cursor properly.  When I went into the mame setup, I noticed that the tracking worked because it was set to "lightgun 1" but the fire buttons were mapped to mouse 5, when it should have been mouse 4.  I remapped the button 1 again and it worked fine.

The reason for this is because I always disconnect the USB hub, so as to preserve the life of the guns/LED's.  Even though I reconnected them in the same USB hub, for some reason the PC allocated Gun 1 to a different "mouse" number.

Whatever the case, it worked for me, so check it out, I have a feeling that's your problem.

Title: Re: Topgun II, how do I get both working at the same time?
Post by: vetteguy112233 on February 08, 2009, 08:03:06 pm

I hope this is my problem, but where do i find a list of what each control should be set to?

Title: Re: Topgun II, how do I get both working at the same time?
Post by: Loafmeister on February 08, 2009, 10:06:53 pm

Not sure if I understand your question:

- Start mame
- Select a lightgun game (example: Operation Wolf)
- press Tab
- Using the enter key, select "input (this game)"
- Using the enter key, select "P1 button 1"
- Now press the trigger on your lightgun and it should assign the trigger as button 1.
- Do the same for the rest.

I've assigned the 2 button to the handle button ("C") and I've set the coin to "SE/BA" and the start button to the lightgun "start".  That way, I don't have to press anything on the cab anymore.

Hope that helps,

Loaf

Title: Re: Topgun II, how do I get both working at the same time?
Post by: vetteguy112233 on February 08, 2009, 10:40:33 pm

What confused me was how Mame32 had them labeled. I expected to see, fire, reload.... not analog, dec, inc. What do they mean?

It has:
Lightgun X - Analog
Lightgun X - Dec
Lightgun X - Inc

Lightgun Y - Analog
Lightgun Y - Dec
Lightgun Y - Inc

Title: Re: Topgun II, how do I get both working at the same time?
Post by: Loafmeister on February 09, 2009, 08:54:56 am

Well, someone can correct me but only worry about the analog one.  The Dec/Inc I always saw as decrease/increase which the settings affected a digital output (ie: if you were using the keyboard). I don't know but it doesn't matter. Just concentrate on the analog settings and you'll be ok.

Title: Re: Topgun II, how do I get both working at the same time?
Post by: u_rebelscum on February 10, 2009, 12:42:59 pm

Quote from: Loafmeister on February 09, 2009, 08:54:56 am

...only worry about the analog one.  The Dec/Inc ... [are for] digital [devices] (ie: if you were using the keyboard)...

Correct.