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chrisnack:
I finally got both my official namco guncon2 guns working tonight.  Buttons and everything, took me alot of trial and error. I'm using the Wingun driver.

Gun 1
Tigger=mouse1
clip button=mouse2
Gun 2
Trigger=mouse3
clip button=mouse4

In mame 0.129
#
# CORE INPUT OPTIONS
#
coin_lockout              0
ctrlr                     
mouse                     1
joystick                  0
lightgun                  1
multikeyboard             0
multimouse                0
steadykey                 0
offscreen_reload          0
joystick_map              auto
joystick_deadzone         0.3
joystick_saturation       0.85

#
# CORE INPUT AUTOMATIC ENABLE OPTIONS
#
paddle_device             keyboard
adstick_device            lightgun
pedal_device              keyboard
dial_device               keyboard
trackball_device          mouse
lightgun_device           lightgun
positional_device         keyboard
mouse_device              mouse

dual_lightgun 1

works in area 51 and also works in terminator 2 (the adstick_device setting is for term2 or any other game that used positional guns)

Will be checking other games tonight.

orion:
"I used the LCD topgun and just don't like the distance and it worked "decent".  I had to stand about 5' back on my 27" TV in my arcade."

I'm glad I saw this post, as I was considering an LCD topgun to use on my 52 inch set.... sounds like I would have to leave the room to use one of them with it  :) I have been using my Gyraton mouse to play light gun games with, I admit you can't really aim all that well with it (not for games like police trainer) but it works pretty well with games like Aliens the gun and HOTD. It sucks that there aren't many options out there for light gun games as those are my favorite to play.

chrisnack:
Alot of people rave about the LCD topgun, but to each their own, i just didn't like it.

I've spent probably 8+ hours messing around with the namco guns to get things working correctly and all the different drivers...

I finally have it working in Mame, i haven't had a chance to play HOTD with the model2 emulator yet, i believe you need the "Troubleshooter" application to play the emulated version if you don't have a PC-based copy.

In all the lightgun based games i've played so far, everything is working.  I created a lightgun game list and have been going through those. 

Ocassional tracking issues, but works pretty darn well overall.  Very curious once i get my generic guncon2 guns later this week to see the difference.  I got my official namco guns for $50 for both, and i paid $22 for both generic ones.  Either way, better than $50/pop LCD topgun, or $100/pop Act Labs gun.

ViciousXUSMC:
Lots of talk about the LCD Top Gun but what about the 2nd model the Top Gun II.

Is it not newer & better?

When the day comes that I build my cabinet with my odd design choice of using a projector to make a big screen on the wall, I think the TopGunII will work great since I will be a far distance back.

chrisnack:

--- Quote from: ViciousXUSMC on March 03, 2009, 01:39:14 am ---Lots of talk about the LCD Top Gun but what about the 2nd model the Top Gun II.

Is it not newer & better?

When the day comes that I build my cabinet with my odd design choice of using a projector to make a big screen on the wall, I think the TopGunII will work great since I will be a far distance back.

--- End quote ---

That's the one i've used.

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