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Im hoping the original poster can help, followed the instructions and got a rotation to vertical when choosing a vertical game when exiting the game monitor did not rotate back o horizontal.  Servo was still working under the pololu controller and I could rotate it back to horizontal. I restarted hyperspin and selected the same vertical game with no rotation this time. Any help would be appreciated im so damn close to completing the project!

I personally use Retroshoter Reaper RS3s on my cabinet, and they're pretty dang good.

Damnit, I think you just spent $300 of my money!

Guess it's time to dust of this old topic again . . .   

Why is having the joystick aligned the same as your buttons fail? You are also standing off to the side as a third or fourth player.

The fail is not that the stick is aligned with the buttons.

The fail is that the stick is not aligned with the monitor.

Almost every 4 player game had the sticks aligned like the ones in green.
- There were very few games with sticks angled like the one in red, and those titles were not well received.
Related thread: https://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,87347.msg1301886.html#msg1301886

There were some 2-player titles that angled the sticks, specifically Virtua Fighter and Virtua Fighter 2.   
- Offered as proof of that assertion, a picture from the VF2 manual.


You can learn to adjust to angled sticks, but that involves compensating for the angle of the stick and your body position relative to the stick.
- Big guys need more elbow room, changing where the players stand, which changes their angle relative to the stick.

If the sticks are not angled, up on the stick is always perpindicular to the line described by the face of the monitor.
- Up on the stick is always up on the monitor regardless of where you stand.  The direction you push the stick matches the action on the monitor.  This makes it easier to hit the desired direction.

Some companies did things like un-angled sticks that stood the test of time and some did things that did not.


Scott

Ah, that's a good point !

I actually ported those Model2 outputs to be used with MAME when they first released 0.278 with Model2 game support.

But as it was not DemulShooter related, I shared it to some people for testing but never really advertised for it....

Just download and use the zip package I'm joining in below (there's a Readme inside explaining everything)
These are simple LUA scripts to be used with MAME to create outputs, DemulSHooter is not needed for that.

Thanks for that.

I thought that using LUA might be a possibility, as you have the cheat system for finding memory location in MAME already with many cheats already pinpointing needed memory locations.
I was looking at the MAME documentation last night but wasn't sure about outputting the messages and I haven't used LUA yet.

Working great, thanks. Just need to dial in my recoil value. 

Also, check out arcade auctions in your area.  You might get a good deal on an original non-working cab.

Why is having the joystick aligned the same as your buttons fail? You are also standing off to the side as a third or fourth player.

Thank for all your work Argonlefou.

Just curious if there is any consideration of adding your custom outputs to mame now that it's Sega Model 2 emulation has improved so much?

I know MAMEdevs won't add outputs that aren't authentic.

Ah, that's a good point !

I actually ported those Model2 outputs to be used with MAME when they first released 0.278 with Model2 game support.

But as it was not DemulShooter related, I shared it to some people for testing but never really advertised for it....

Just download and use the zip package I'm joining in below (there's a Readme inside explaining everything)
These are simple LUA scripts to be used with MAME to create outputs, DemulSHooter is not needed for that.

There are a million places you can go on the internet to argue with strangers about ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- that doesn't matter.

Forgot to mention that I got the answer, and it was basically "no". Seems the idea is to delete that forum.

Thank for all your work Argonlefou.

Just curious if there is any consideration of adding your custom outputs to mame now that it's Sega Model 2 emulation has improved so much?

I know MAMEdevs won't add outputs that aren't authentic.

Are light guns "there" yet? I have the ultimarc ones but need the crosshairs enabled as I could never calibrate them 100%

Yes.   Sinden, RetroShooter Reapers, Gun4IR, there are event wireless ones now (X-Gunner I think?). 

I personally use Retroshoter Reaper RS3s on my cabinet, and they're pretty dang good.