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Title: name controller id- act lab lightguns
Post by: tony.silveira on February 15, 2018, 12:16:59 pm: hi all,

i have successfully set up the mane ctrl file so that my sticks, trackball and spinners always stay the same. but i am having issues with my act lab guns. thing is, windows reports the same hardware is for both of them so name gets confused.

any thoughts on what i can do? if i plug one of them into a a different usb, say an added usb card, will that report a different hardware id?

thanks for reading
Title: Re: name controller id- act lab lightguns
Post by: Martin0037 on February 17, 2018, 01:49:01 pm: I had a similar problem with my hyperspin cab. Windows kept changing the device ids. I have two aimtracks, a spinner and a trackball. I also use a usb hub to plug everything in. Everything should have it’s own unique ID in windows. I use two aimtrack guns and in the aimtrack utility I made the 2nd gun a joystick input which solved this.

Not sure if this will work with your setup. What system are you using?
Title: Re: name controller id- act lab lightguns
Post by: tony.silveira on February 17, 2018, 02:08:53 pm: using HS also. windows sees both actlab gums with the same exact hardware id. can you see if windows does the same with your aim tracks?
Title: Re: name controller id- act lab lightguns
Post by: Martin0037 on March 03, 2018, 03:05:50 am: Hi, sorry for late reply. Notifications aren’t working...
You need to use a raw input version of mame or your guns will show up as the same device eg both guns will show up as mouse x or mouse x1 for example.

Direct input versions are no good for this, however I had the device I’d changing problem, so I reverted back to direct input version and made the second gun a joystick input. This works fine for the aimtracks but not sure about your guns. I’d get a raw input version of mame and try that. Should work fine.

Hope that helps.