Please don't double post, I've merged both your topics. Also, provide more information about your setup - as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

@magick81 it's not available for the RPI4.

Worth it not to have to worry about a sensor bar. I'm getting them for my arcade, but would also like to use them for my computer. Moving the sensor bar around could cause problems with the wire.

@retropieer737 Alas, I didn't use my Aimtraks for over a year. Maybe you should open your own support thread and describe in detail what you did, and quote any error messages explicitly.

@paulr Yeah it's a tough one to navigate. I have the same situation going on and have found nothing so far to help me resolve the issue. Have you found anything?

How can I ask the devs of the emulators to help with this light Gun trigger mapping functionality?

@jedelvalle Did you ever figure that out? If so I'd love to know what you did!

Update 2:

What a rollercoaster!

So I made some guesses on the joystick ID (above), and got advmame to start long enough to let me map controls. I pulled the trigger, and found it was showing up as j5. I wiggled the gun around, and it showed up as j4. Armed with that knowledge, I went back into advmame-1.4.rc and updated those lines.

Back into duck hunt and... SUCCESS! Sort of. I had movement, and it didn't drift, but it also was clearly moving in 4 directions. Like a joystick.

So I went back to gunconf, set the gun for mouse mode, and went back into AdvMame. Nothing worked (which I expected), but I was able to do that mapping trick and learn that both buttons and movement was showing up as j6. I made the appropriate changes to the rc file, and.. nothing.

Buuuuut, I did learn something about how the rc files works, so I decided to throw caution to the wind and make some changes.

I went back into the rc and set it up this way again:

device_mouse raw device_raw_mousedev[0] /dev/input/mouse0 device_raw_mousedev[1] /dev/input/mouse1 device_raw_mousedev[2] /dev/input/mouse2 device_raw_mousedev[3] /dev/input/mouse3 device_raw_mousetype[0] ps2 device_raw_mousetype[1] ps2 device_raw_mousetype[2] ps2 device_raw_mousetype[3] ps2

I set the lightgun mapping back to "auto", and fired up duckhunt again, and it was a QUALIFIED SUCCESS!

The lightgun is now working (as in, it moves in the right direction at the right time), but there is clearly a calibration and/or sensitivity issue. The gun functions inside a very small area, which I suspect is about the resolution of duckhunt, rather than the resolution of the monitor.

I attempted to calibrate inside of duckhunt, but that's a frustrating experience since the crosshairs bounce all over the place, and I can only guess where I'm supposed to be aiming. Hardly ideal for what I'm trying to make happen here.

I am going to re-calibrate in 4:3 using gunconf, and then play with the sensitivity settings to see if I can get it to match up.

@sdabbs
I don't know sorry. Try using pip to check and upgrade py modules.

pip list pip upgrade xxx.xxx

here you go for dolphin bar users

@Clyde said in Aimtrak / Advance Mame 1.4:

I'm glad that my request helped you fix the gun before the holidays. :)

I just realised how strange that may sound out of context. :D

@mitu Just stumbled over this thread because I am a proud owner of two Aimtrak lightguns since last saturday, and I'm searching for any information about their setup. :)

Following the links from the video's description, I found the github page of the script in question:

https://github.com/Shakz76/Eazy-Hax-RetroPie-Toolkit/

It seems like it modifies an existing Retropie installation and adds some functionality the author deemed to be useful. I didn't dive deeper into it, because I prefer to use Retropie's own tools as long as they get the job done as well.

Getting my Aimtraks to work with any kind of MAME is my next goal, but at present I can't help much further.

@tuki_cat very glad it's working! Setting up varying types input devices is not a trivial thing. Thanks for reporting what worked for you.

did you manage to fix? I am having the same issue and it's driving me insane. Not sure how much more time I can dedicate to it

Anybody tried Blue Shark (really old school ;-) ) with Dolphinbar/Wii controller ?
Does it use crosshair ?
It's supposed to work both in lr-mame 2003 and 2010.