ArcadeGuns.com Configuration
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Hi,
I'm running the latest version of retropie on a Pi3
I am trying to configure the Arcadegun from arcadeguns.com to work with nes Hogan' Alley
It seems its possible I sent an email to inquire to arcadeguns.com got this answer
Arcade Guns Team eric@arcadeguns.com
Nov 17 (2 days ago)to me
I've tried retro pie with our guns. I was able to get 1 Gun working in joystick mode. I wasn't able to get a second gun to recognize in mame.Eric
When I try to configure the gun it recognizes it as ULTIMARC but dose not recognize the trigger as a button and since it has only two other buttons it fails to configure the GUN
Anyone have Ideas?
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I would try to configure the gun buttons on a regular PC with the software on their website. Maybe it will update the firmware and work on the PI.
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Is the game thinking the gun is a mouse? Is it tracking across the screen properly, but you can't use the trigger?
I thought the best you could possibly do, with quite a bit of work, is to get the gun to mimic a mouse pointer in select games (i.e. ONLY games that have mouse support). They also need to support absolute? (believe that's the term) mouse coordinates or it won't work.
I've given up on this with my Pi and simply play my NES light gun games on my Nintendo console on my old CRT TV (and House of the Dead for Xbox, and Time Crisis and some others on PS2).
Currently looking into softmodding a Xbox and installing CoinOPS which has lightgun (the USB variety with tracking bar) built into their MAME - that setup still won't let you play console light gun games with it as the code just isn't there.
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You haven't made mention of which core you're trying to use, but currently, lr-nestopia is the only emulator in RetroPie to have NES zapper support. I can't remember if it's part of the default install, but you also need to make sure that you have the "NstDatabase.xml" file located at
/opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-nestopia/. If all this checks out and you're still having trouble, make sure that no other mouse devices are conflicting with the guns.After you get this going, you can also use your guns with lr-mame2003. RetroArch also supports these guns in SNES, Genesis/Megadrive, Master System, SegaCD and 32xCD through the use of lr-snes9x-next and lr-genesis-plus-gx. However, the mouse driver for these two cores is currently inoperable on the Pi. Whenever that is corrected, the Pi will have the best light gun support out of most any other retro-emulation solution besides a hacked Wii.
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@mediamogul can a mouse work in lr-nestopia? I cant seem to get it to. I cant find a way to enable a light gu eithern. I have the database xml as well. Is there a way to enable a crosshair in lr-nestopia?
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Hi Guys,
I have read all your input thanks ! I just got a mail back from Eric at ArcadeGuns
Hi Michel,
I'm happy to help where I can. It's been a while since I've tried it on a
raspberry Pi2. At that time, retro Pi didn't have a good modern mame
available. So I used Advance Mame I believe which runs reasonably smooth.
Something to keep in mind in Linux (Maybe just Mame in Linux) doesn't
support Absolute Mouse correctly. I have yet to find anyone, including
myself to get Linux to work with Absolute mouse correctly. Linux does
however work perfectly with Joysticks. So I would recommend starting out
setting your guns to Joystick Tracking mode. The games should just work
after mapping the controls, but I couldn't get 2 guns to work correctly. I
thought I had everything setup correctly, but the second gun just wouldn't
work as a second gun in mame. You would probably be better off with a
modern version of MAME, but raspberry pi will be very slow...you need
better hardware to run newer versions of Mame typically..Is the game thinking the gun is a mouse? Is it tracking across the screen properly, but you can't use the trigger?
No the best I got to now is to get one button to work :(
I thought the best you could possibly do, with quite a bit of work, is to get the gun to mimic a mouse pointer in select games (i.e. ONLY games that have mouse support). They also need to support absolute? (believe that's the term) mouse coordinates or it won't work.
Yes Eric mentions something about this
I will keep on trying maybe we find a solution :)
@mediamogu
I am Using lr-nestopia but I did not do that:
"NstDatabase.xml" file located at /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-nestopia/
Will test out all the that you mentioned and give feedback
:)
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@edmaul69 said in ArcadeGuns.com Configuration:
can a mouse work in lr-nestopia?
I've got it working with relative coordinates right now, but it seems like my AimTrak guns were working the last time I tried them about a month ago.
I cant find a way to enable a light gu eithern.
I'm not able to check at the moment, but the setting is either located under the core options, core control options or possibly the standard input options for player 2.
Is there a way to enable a crosshair in lr-nestopia?
Nestopia checks against the "NstDatabase.xml" file to determine which game is light gun capable. Once it knows this, I believe the cross hairs are visible by default, but this setting might also reside in the core options.
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Hi
@mediamogul Can you share the cfg file of your gun ?
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There's shouldn't really be a config file to speak of. RetroArch should just see it as a mouse device and use it accordingly. I need to uninstall the gun from my arcade cabinet and hook it up to my Pi again to confirm. Like I said, I tested it briefly about a month ago. The sticking point for me to get it to work was making sure that it was the only mouse device plugged in. Although it's not nearly as fun, I also have my analog gamepad mapped to play light gun games on the Pi, but that uses relative coordinates rather than absolute coordinates like the AimTrak guns.
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thats the file I need an example for:
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I have yet to find anyone, including
myself to get Linux to work with Absolute mouse correctly. Linux does
however work perfectly with Joysticks.this isn't true or linux wouldn't support trackpads/touchscreens!
mame2003 supports absolute coordinate mouse devices. see https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/lr-mame2003#pointertrackpadtouchscreen-support
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thats the file I need an example for:
It's possible we have different guns. The trigger on mine registers as a mouse click, which doesn't need to be mapped in most software that supports a mouse as a light gun device.
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Yeah it's possible Mine is from ArcadeGuns.com but is recognized by retropie as a Ultimarc that's why I need to edit the config file but don't know how to do it... if I get a sample of a light gun config file maybe I can work it out.
So anyone with a config file for a mouse that works or a light gun please share
Thanks
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Andy from Ultimarc says he is going to try and help out :)
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