DemulShooter (Dual light gun on DEMUL, Model2, Dolphin, Silent Hill, etc...)

[DMB77]

Thanks for the update Aragon, MIB is Sooo much better without the guns. Everything is working however I can't aim all the way to right side of the screen.  I didn't change any of the setting in the BepInEx folder, and my desktop resolution is 1080x1920.  Any Ideas on how to fix this?  The game works fine on teknoparrot but I can't use the no crosshairs/gun with TP.

[petran79]

What is the argument for Chihiro version of house of the dead 3 to work via cxbx ds 1.0?

when I enter demulshooter.exe -target=chihiro -rom=hod3
cxbxr-ldr.exe does not register the mouse cursor in game. No issues in launching and shooting in Virtua Cop 3 if I enter rom=vcop3

Do I need to type something different than hod3?
PC version has issues as arcademod launcher does not work in Windows 11 unfortunately. I have to set compatibility to Win7

[argonlefou]

You have the correct command line for chihiro DS build, as you can see here

I have not used it for a long time, I don't exactly remember if there was some issues with build version / rom version to get it to work

I keep using the pc mod instead
As I just replied on your Github ticket, I use both hod3pc and the mod on a windows 11 computer without any trouble

[petran79]

I managed to register light gun and it could shoot but cxbx crashed immediately in the first stage.
Tried it again by disabling bezels, exclusive full screen and shaders and it run without crashes even to stage 3. Unfortunately even on a modern cpu (i5 245k in my case), emulation has slowdowns. While VC3 runs smooth.
Only difference are the better textures and vfx. Eg in the Fool boss encounter, you can clearly see the faces of the corpses falling. While on PC even at 1920x1440, those textures were a mess.
So PC version remains the best option till they improve.

Yes, issue was with not copying the patched hot3 exe to exe folder and had it in root folder instead. Now it seems to run

[argonlefou]

Glad to hear that you managed to make it work.

And yes, Chihiro hod3 on Cxbx is not what I'd call "fully playable" state... Unfortunatelly.
Even VC3 has some texture issues, mainly the usual "Virtua Cop Circles" surrounding the enemies are not showing on cxbx.
Xemu is rendering them without any issue, but I don't think it's lightgun friendly

[Jayinem]

Argon I usually use Teknoparrot for those specific light gun games but I can't get controls to work at all for one game, Point Blank X. So I'm using Demulshooter but 5 is not working to enter coins? 1 is working for start it says coin error. I am also unable to get into any test menus. I did copy the content of Point Blank X to where the .exe is, but I'm confused about your instructions

Edit the newly copied Setting.ini file (located in PBX100-2-NA-MPR0-A63_Data\ subdirectory of the game) to your needs. Available options and values are written in the ini file.

I don't really know how to edit that .ini? It looks like this

CONTROLLER 1 # 0=BNUsio 1=Simulated

GUNPORT 3 # COM port for Gun board

TICKET 0 # 0=Disabled, 1=Enabled

MAIN_PATH ./NVRAM/ # Main save location

BACKUP_PATH ./NVRAM/ # Backup save location

LANGUAGE en-US, ja-JP,zh-CN,ko-KR,es-ES,pt-BR,th-TH,ru-RU,id-ID # language at the first is default

I don't know how to change anything in this can you help?

Edit: I realize now backspace is test menu and I was able to disable coins, however it seems demulshooter is not hooking because it's red and my wiimote doesn't seem calibrated. I copied all of the files of Demulshooter 16.2 and put them where the .exe is and here is my script

Run, DemulShooter.exe -target=es4 -rom=pblankx
run, PBX100-2-NA-MPR0-A63.exe

I tried running Demulshooter.exe as administrator but Demulshooter is still red not green?

Edit 2: Now that I figured out how to disable coins in test menu the game is fully working in Teknoparrot.

[argonlefou]

I don't really know how to edit that .ini? It looks like this

CONTROLLER 1 # 0=BNUsio 1=Simulated

GUNPORT 3 # COM port for Gun board

TICKET 0 # 0=Disabled, 1=Enabled

MAIN_PATH ./NVRAM/ # Main save location

BACKUP_PATH ./NVRAM/ # Backup save location

LANGUAGE en-US, ja-JP,zh-CN,ko-KR,es-ES,pt-BR,th-TH,ru-RU,id-ID # language at the first is default

I don't know how to change anything in this can you help?

This is a simple text file, just change whatever setting you need to be changed
What's after the '#' signs are comments, so just change the setting before like

Code: [Select]

LANGUAGE es-ES,en-US, ja-JP,zh-CN,ko-KR,pt-BR,th-TH,ru-RU,id-IDif you want Spanish laguage by default

Edit: I realize now backspace is test menu and I was able to disable coins, however it seems demulshooter is not hooking because it's red and my wiimote doesn't seem calibrated. I copied all of the files of Demulshooter 16.2 and put them where the .exe is and here is my script

Run, DemulShooter.exe -target=es4 -rom=pblankx
run, PBX100-2-NA-MPR0-A63.exe

I tried running Demulshooter.exe as administrator but Demulshooter is still red not green?

Backspace key was listed in the game wiki page
As for DS not hooking the game,  it can be many things but a demulshooter log would be a good starting point to see if something obviopus is going on
And, as I usually said, trying to get things running directly without using AHK scripts or BAT or frontend is also a good starting point as those scripts/tools can add a layer of possible errors....