Aimtrak Lightgun not working in XXXX in 1 gameboard

[chimera123]

Hello,

I have a XXXX in 1 cab with plenty of roms and would like to use my Aimtrak gun for Terminator 2. Joystick and Trackball works well but when I connect the Aimtrak gun things get crazy (Player1 and Player2 are reversed all of a sudden and so on)
On top of it I am unable to configure the lightgun to work with T2. Most of the time I am unable to map it properly and I was never able to get it working in the game to perfrom a calibration. I installed already on my cab the calibration utility and it turned out in windows the lightgun works without any issues, so I am guessing something is wrong with my mame.ini, itīs running on mame 0.145

Hoping somebody can help me to get this works, trying already since days without luck.....tried to set the lightgun to "mouse" or "lightgun" but nothing worked so far.

many thanks



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[BadMouth]

Did you read the instructions on setting up MAME games?
https://www.ultimarc.com/AimTrak%20Setup%20Guide.pdf

[chimera123]

Hello

Yes, I went through this already a couple of times.
Regarding the lightgun settings in the . ini I am not sure if they are correct, for example "lightgun" is there available 2 times, need to set both to 1? What about the option "mouse" and "lightgun" ?

At this point I was able to correctly map the trigger and bottom for bomb for T2, so shooting is ok.
But it just shoots to the upper left corner, the crosshair is not moving, in game calibration doesn't work.
Strange is that the mapping worked for the X and Y axis but for some reason not when returning to game, same after restart if the game.

thanks for let me know

[BadMouth]

Hello

Yes, I went through this already a couple of times.
Regarding the lightgun settings in the . ini I am not sure if they are correct, for example "lightgun" is there available 2 times, need to set both to 1? What about the option "mouse" and "lightgun" ?

At this point I was able to correctly map the trigger and bottom for bomb for T2, so shooting is ok.
But it just shoots to the upper left corner, the crosshair is not moving, in game calibration doesn't work.
Strange is that the mapping worked for the X and Y axis but for some reason not when returning to game, same after restart if the game.

thanks for let me know

Did you read the specific instructions for T2/RevolutionX in the manual linked above?

[chimera123]

Yes of course, believe me I went through the maual a couple of time, line by line, but in the game the cursor doesnīt move.
When pressing tab I am able to map the gun, but the entries stays grey.

Thanks
Chimera


Out from the manual:
From mamedev.org: The game will automatically ask you to  calibrate the guns when you start the game for the first time.  Simply put, use your mouse or keyboard to "target" the top  left corner when the game asks so. There aren't any visual  cues to help this, so you'll have to go by the numerical  coordinates that are visible on the screen. The numbers you  see are in a simple 8‐bit scale going from 0 to 255. To  "target" the top left corner, keep moving your mouse until  you get P1 X and P1 Y as near to 0 as possible. The middle is  located at about 127, 127, and the bottom right corner as  close to 255 as possible. Repeat the process for the second  player.

[BadMouth]

check in the ini folder located in your MAME folder to see if T2 has it's own ini file.
If there is one there, it will override your mame.ini file.

Multimouse shouldn't make a difference with only one player, but that's something else to try changing.

Those are the only other things I can think of.

[chimera123]

Hello,

No .ini file for T2 in the folder. But I found the solution already, pretty simple...now

ADSTICK_DEVICE=Lightgun

Afterwards just calibration in mame and everything works perfectly.
Looks like in a XXXX in 1 gameboard it needs to be setup like this

http://www.mameaddicts.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=509

bye