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Multiple mice support in RetroArch cores (lightguns, spinners, trackballs)

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    BGallagherLA
    last edited by 30 Jul 2017, 23:47

    Now that RetroArch 1.6.3 is out, I'll have some time this coming week and hope to start testing out various gun games in the console emulators like Sega Master System, NES and Genesis/MegaDrive. Fingers crossed!

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      hooperre
      last edited by 31 Jul 2017, 05:33

      Seems like Duck Hunt and Wild Gunman work okay for lr-nestopia, but seems pretty finicky. I haven't really figured out how to configure them yet. Luckily Tuesdays are my day off!

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        BGallagherLA @hooperre
        last edited by 31 Jul 2017, 05:36

        @hooperre Are you using an Aimtrack or Wiimote/Dolphinbar (like me)?

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          hooperre
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            hooperre @BGallagherLA
            last edited by 31 Jul 2017, 05:38

            @bgallagherla I just picked up a cheap airmouse to try before purchasing anything like that.

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              BGallagherLA @hooperre
              last edited by 31 Jul 2017, 05:39

              @hooperre Gotcha. I've got a ton of games working fine on AdvMame 1.4 with my Wiimote/Dolphinbar setup. Excited to see if these console games work too. Hoping to dig into this tomorrow night.

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                hooperre @BGallagherLA
                last edited by 31 Jul 2017, 05:42

                @bgallagherla I had Duck Hunt and Wild Gunman working with AdvMame but it didn't have the console feel I grew up with. Wild Gunman being PC-10 didn't look great and Duck Hunt worked okay. Maybe better in terms of response as you have to "lead" the duck a bit from my 3 minutes of testing.

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                  BGallagherLA @hooperre
                  last edited by 31 Jul 2017, 05:48

                  @hooperre Yup, I've got Duck Hunt working in Mame, not familiar with Wild Gunman. I grew up with a Sega Master System so hoping the old Light Phaser games like Rescue Mission and Rambo III can work with this update.

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                    markwkidd
                    last edited by 31 Jul 2017, 05:57

                    Do either of you have access to a Windows PC? casdevel added new logging capabilities to the Windows 'raw' input driver last week.

                    Therefore it would be great to have verbose logs with your equipment in Windows 10 with the raw driver if at all possible.

                    Mark

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                      BGallagherLA @markwkidd
                      last edited by 31 Jul 2017, 06:00

                      @markwkidd I have a Windows 10 laptop, but I'd need some instructions on how to access the verbose logs from the Pi on my laptop. I assume through Putty/SSH?

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                        markwkidd @BGallagherLA
                        last edited by 31 Jul 2017, 06:41

                        @bgallagherla the goal here would be to install retroarch on the Windows pc and gather log data in that environment.

                        Im traveling for work at the moment but I'll provide a more thorough description tomorrow or Tuesday.

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                          markwkidd
                          last edited by 31 Jul 2017, 06:44

                          In the meantime maybe these doca in w gathering logs would help :https://buildbot.libretro.com/docs/guides/troubleshooting-retroarch/

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                            HurricaneFan @BGallagherLA
                            last edited by 31 Jul 2017, 12:40

                            @bgallagherla Do you have a list of what gun games work in AdvMame 1.4?

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                              BGallagherLA @HurricaneFan
                              last edited by 31 Jul 2017, 15:32

                              @hurricanefan Here is a list of what I have now, but I just added like 40 more games last night and will be testing those as well.

                              Alien 3
                              Bang!
                              Beast Busters
                              Blood Bros. (Set 1)
                              Born To Fight
                              Bubble Trouble (Japan, Rev C)
                              Cheyenne
                              Chiller
                              Clay Pigeon (Version 2.0)
                              Crackshot (Version 2.0)
                              D-Day
                              Dragon Gun
                              Ghost Pilots
                              Ghoul Panic
                              Laser Ghost (World)
                              Last Bronx
                              Lethal Enforcers (11/19/92)
                              Lethal Enforcers II
                              Lethal Justice
                              Line of Fire
                              Lord of Gun (USA)
                              Mad Dog McGree
                              Mechanized Attack
                              NY Captor
                              Narc
                              Ninja Assault
                              Operation Thunderbolt
                              Operation Wolf
                              Polict10 (Police Trainer)
                              Riot
                              Shootout
                              Showdown
                              Space Gun
                              Steel Gunner
                              Terminator 2
                              The Tin Star
                              Under Fire
                              Vs. Duck Hunt
                              Vs. Freedom Force
                              Vs. Gunsmoke
                              Vs. Hogan's Alley
                              Wanted
                              Who dun It
                              Zero Point
                              Zero Point 2
                              Zombie Raid

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                                HurricaneFan @BGallagherLA
                                last edited by 31 Jul 2017, 16:06

                                @bgallagherla When you are done testing, is it possible for you to post your final working list in a separate post?

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                                  BGallagherLA @HurricaneFan
                                  last edited by 31 Jul 2017, 16:08

                                  @hurricanefan Sure, I could do that.

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                                    mediamogul Global Moderator
                                    last edited by 31 Jul 2017, 16:22

                                    Just out of curiosity, with the hardware accelerated framebuffer support and other Pi optimizations found in the latest AdvanceMAME, is there any benefit to running the older 1.4 or 0.94 versions?

                                    RetroPie v4.5 • RPi3 Model B • 5.1V 2.5A PSU • 16GB SanDisk microSD • 512GB External Drive

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                                      BGallagherLA @mediamogul
                                      last edited by 31 Jul 2017, 17:01

                                      @mediamogul All of those games above I have running in AdvMame 1.4. Most of those above are older games which run great with no calibration needed in 1.4 (though with Operation Wolf, you do have to map the additional "grenade" button to the A button of your Wiimote, otherwise it just fires all the grenades first with regular trigger button). There are a lot of the newer games that don't play in 1.4, or play but are super laggy, which may be a Pi issue instead of an emulator issue. Which is the latest AdvMame? May have to experiment with some of the newer gun games.

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                                        BGallagherLA @mediamogul
                                        last edited by 31 Jul 2017, 20:49

                                        @mediamogul Also, in an earlier thread, you mentioned that emulators like lr-nestopia, lr-snes9x2010, lr-genesis-plus-gx would now have support for mouse/gun support with this new Retroarch update. I got everything updated with the new RetroArch 1.6.3 last night, and this morning I did a quick test on one of my favorite SMS shooter games, Rescue Mission, in both lr-picodrive and lr-genesis-plus-gx, just to see if it would work without calibration. The results were the same as before - nothing works at all in PicoDrive, but in Genesis Plus, the trigger works although it doesn't pick up any movement. I had hoped it would work without any tweaking, but seems I'll need to tweak.

                                        With all that being said, can you provide any sort of detailed instructions about what settings I have to change to make this work with the 1.6.3 update, .i.e. how to calibrate my gun in Retroarch? I'm talking real basic instructions, like I'm a small child haha. I don't know how/where to access a lot of these settings, so if you or anyone else can point me in the right direction, I'll start testing this stuff out in console emulators tonight.

                                        Thanks!

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                                          hooperre @BGallagherLA
                                          last edited by 31 Jul 2017, 22:38

                                          @bgallagherla Curious if anything in lr-nestopia works for you.

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