Anyone getting the Sinden light gun?
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Has anyone set this up on RetroPie yet? Mine is on order, just wondered how easy it was to do. I haven't researched yet as I figured it might be a while before I get my gun.
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@adambegood I've set it up with RetroPie. It's not terribly complicated to do, but there are several steps you have to deal with. The official Sinden Lightgun wiki has full setup instructions, or, optionally, a bare-bones prebuilt RetroPie image (no games included) that's already configured to work with the light gun.
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@g30ff said in Anyone getting the Sinden light gun?:
@adambegood I've set it up with RetroPie. It's not terribly complicated to do, but there are several steps you have to deal with. The official Sinden Lightgun wiki has full setup instructions, or, optionally, a bare-bones prebuilt RetroPie image (no games included) that's already configured to work with the light gun.
Okay, I've read that now and it looks easy enough to do. Is it the same procedure for all Libretro cores as for the NES? I guess non-Libretro cores are a bit fiddlier, but I think everything I want to play will be fine with Libretro anyway.
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@adambegood It's the same for all cores, yes. Just keep in mind some cores need additional buttons mapped, such as flycast and snes9x. I've got this working with Flycast, Nestopia, SNES9X, MAME2016, and Genesis Plus GX (only tested in Master System games though). I haven't tried Genesis games, Sega CD games, or PSX games.
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@g30ff Superb, hopefully it'll all go swimmingly but I may be back to pick your brains whenever I get mine. Thank you!
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@adambegood The Sinden Lightgun official discord is also a great place to get support specifically for it. They helped me a lot getting set up.
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@g30ff said in Anyone getting the Sinden light gun?:
@adambegood The Sinden Lightgun official discord is also a great place to get support specifically for it. They helped me a lot getting set up.
I’ve just ordered a recoil version in red, and was trying to get into the discord. Every link I try says it’s expired?
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@stumcbill Huh. Well, I've mentioned that problem on the Discord server, so hopefully they'll fix that soon.
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@stumcbill They gave me an invite link: https://discord.com/invite/B67hgt4 Try this
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@g30ff that’s worked. Thanks very much!
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Two more updates since my last post in March:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-sinden-lightgun#/updates/all
There's also a (new?) updates section on the Sinden homepage:
https://www.sindenlightgun.com/productionupdates/
Seems like my order #4957 is finally coming into view.
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@clyde I think I'm around the 10k mark.. 😭
Looking forward to hearing what you make of the gun though, and at least there will be plenty of people to help me out with set-up if necessary by the time I eventually get mine...
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@adambegood That's the spirit. 😉👍
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I've been really lazy when it comes to my Retropie build lately. I need to get on setting this up. That dog isn't going to be able to infuriate me otherwise.
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I just got the holsters for my two guns. I wonder why they are sent separately, and when the guns will arrive. But I guess it's a good sign. 🧐
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Contribution ID: 2507. I received today, in Italy, with recoil :)
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I have installed the sinden software but no success with lr-mame2003 and lr-pcsx-rearmed. With mame2003 i can fire in Operation Wolf and sometimes move up and down. :(
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@chupachups How does the software work exactly? How does the Sinden appear to the system? Is the installation manual available online?
If it appears as a mouse, trackball or the like, maybe Spinners, Trackballs, Lightguns, Mice could help you set it up.
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software avaiable in sinden website
wiki at https://sindenlightgun.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Pagethe "Lightgun" folder must be copied in /home/pi/ directory on the Pi
Then 2 commands: ./setup-lightgun.sh and ./setup-retropie.sh from this folder
Then in emulationstation in PORTS we have the command for lauch and test the gun
But, after installation i can't use trackball/mouse/airmouse/touchpad in lr-mame2003 (with various mouse index)
Now i'm building my flipper (24" HD with an android tv box, similar to "sharpin pinball") and I can't do other tests.
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@chupachups Thanks for the link. I guess you followed the instructions in https://sindenlightgun.miraheze.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi_Setup_Guide step by step (as far as they apply to you).
Does the gun work in the test application?
Do you see the colored border that the gun uses to orient itself?
I'll leave it to you if and when to answer. Have fun with your flipper project. 👍 I may come back to this after I get my gun. (In any other situation, this would be a somewhat alarming statement. 😁 )
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