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northerngames:
could try putting your hand over the lens and then press the trigger as that would take the tracking off the screen I would think.

mikeveli20:

--- Quote from: Cananas on August 17, 2008, 01:49:35 pm ---
--- Quote from: mikeveli20 on August 16, 2008, 04:23:36 pm ---I haven't been able to get the offscreen reload to work, other than the method you described of quickly shoot sideways. I've come to the conclusion that this just doesn't work properly, and I'll be forced to press the B button to reload. However, for whatever reason some games (Lethal Enforcers for MAME) don't accept the button press as a reload. I have the button assigned in the Top Gun Control Panel, as well as enabling offscreen_reload in the MAME ini file, but no luck. Unless there is something else I can do, the only other option is to enable the unlimited ammo cheat for the games that do this. It's not ideal, but it's better than only having one round the entire game.

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Again, please, verify that you don't have mouse enabled for the games that use lightguns. Lethal Enforces reload perfectly with a button with offscreen_reload enabled. Only disable mouse  (mouse 0) or be sure that there is no mouse button assigned to reload button, only a gun button.

This is because Aaron modified the reload system and now, it is not possible to reload with the second button2 if you are using a mouse. This is not a bug, it's a feature, because pressing a button to reload is considered a hack. The offscreen_reload is only for using with lightguns like actlabs (this guns must be offscreen_reload always enables to work properly) or LCDTopGuns, where this option is optional, because the LCDTopGun can provide to MAME the offscrren status.

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But doesn't mouse have to be enabled for the EMS TopGun to be used since it acts as a mouse? I couldn't even get it to work until I enabled mouse and multimouse. How do I disable my regular mouse, and just keep the guns active?

Cananas:
You must have activated lightgun (lightgun 1); not mouse.

Try this in mame.ini:

--- Code: ---mouse                    0
joystick                  1
lightgun                  1
multikeyboard             0
multimouse                1
steadykey                 0
offscreen_reload          1

lightgun_device           lightgun

--- End code ---

If you wish to have mouse enabled (mouse 1), be sure that lightgun is assignated to lightgun device. And be sure that no mouse button is mapped to any button of the game:

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