Aimtrak with Mame, cant set red buttons?

[MydknyteStyrm]

Hi folks,
I've read every post I could find on AC regarding the Aimtrak gun, and here's my problem. Hopefully someone has the answer.

I have the Aimtrak utility v1.9, and running Mame 0147. The issue I have is with games like Terminator 2, Rev X, and Op Wolf, or any game that requires a second button to throw a bomb, cd, etc.

I cant get Mame to recognize the second button. Trigger is fine. I set up my Aimtrak Utility with the following:

:Emulate Mouse is ticked

:Trigger emulates Left Mouse onscreen, Right Mouse offscreen (Lethal Enforcers works fine)

LEFT button and RIGHT button: I've tried numerous options, including GP 1-8 and Mouse Left/Right.

In the Mame interface (not UIFX) I hit TAB and set the controls, but when I try to set P1 BUTTON 2, Mame doesnt even pick it up. If I set it to JOY1_Button2, still doesnt register on the gun.

I even went to the CFG file for Terminator 2, entered GUNCODE_B1 for the second button, and when I returned to Mame, there was B0 for the trigger, and B1 for the "Bomb" button. But still didnt work.

What I need to know is what's the best way to set up the Aimtrak Utility to work for the red buttons? I assume GP means GamePad, and nothing seems to work.

I changed the INI file in Mame to read the lightgun, and issues keep arising.

Any help you guys can provide would be most helpful. Thanks!

[BadMouth]

I changed the INI file in Mame to read the lightgun, and issues keep arising.

Don't enable lightguns in the .ini
That option was for old gameport (not USB) lightguns made by Act Labs.
Your Aim-Trak is a mouse.  Ignore everything to the contrary.

Not sure what to tell you about the 2nd button not working.
Make sure the mouse is enabled and multiple mouse if you have two guns or another device that shows as a mouse.

Since shooting offscreen shows up as a right mouse click, maybe you can't have the 2nd button also mapped to that.

If it's showing as a gamepad button, you also need to have joystick enabled in mame.ini

[MydknyteStyrm]

I turned off the Lightgun option in Mame, and now it wont even work at all. According to the Aimtrak instructions online, I was supposed to leave it at 1. Here is what my Mame.ini looks like now.

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[BadMouth]

I don't see anything that looks wrong.  I guess put lightgun back to 1 if that's what the aim-trak instructions say.

Only other thing I can think of is to make sure you delete the games individual .ini files in case those vary from the main mame.ini

[Zeenon]

Try these settings:

https://picasaweb.google.com/113479638023975506740/Mame#slideshow/5855582425483166018

Z

[MydknyteStyrm]

Thanks Zeenon, but its a dead link.