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    Aimtrak Light gun and Mame2003

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      BGallagherLA @HurricaneFan
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      @HurricaneFan Actually I dont think sound works on mine at all. I played it the other day and sound wasnt working. Sometimes sound just randomly cuts out on everything though, so I think it's more of some weird pi issue than a game issue. I still haven't upgraded to a Pi 3 yet. Since they were coming out once a year, I was gonna wait for the 4, but now I hear the 4 might not be out till 2019, so guess I'm gonna have to get a 3...

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        BGallagherLA @HurricaneFan
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        @HurricaneFan What I really wanna do is figure out how to use this setup on consoles like SMS/NES/Genesis. There are a few crappy emulators (DGEN, Osmose) that it half works on. I can fire, but crosshairs wont move.

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          HurricaneFan @BGallagherLA
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          @BGallagherLA I think the issue with other emulators is it reads the mouse movement differently. I thought I saw something that the emulators need to be able to use absolute positioning and a lot of them use relative positioning.

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            gunpadawan @HurricaneFan
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            @HurricaneFan yes it does, which is useful to make sure the gun can see the IR led and also reconfigure between games (mouse or joystick for instance)

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              UDb23 @HurricaneFan
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              @HurricaneFan said in Aimtrak Light gun and Mame2003:

              So the number 5 on my keyboard inserted a coin, and number 1 started the game. The dolphin bar recognizes the wiimote in mode 2 and you get a crosshairs that shows you what your pointing at. The trigger button shoots.

              First test results are not really great (using wiiremote plus & mode 2, tried both advmame 3.x and 1.4):

              • will act as mouse only if really near (1m) to the sensorbar
              • pointing area limited at the bottom (regardless of top o bottom setting of the switch on the bar); can't aim at the lower part.

              Any suggestions ?

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                HurricaneFan @UDb23
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                @UDb23 I use my wiimote about 3 1/2 to 4 feet from my sensor bar. I don't think I've seen an issue with pointing at the bottom. What game did you test?

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                  UDb23 @HurricaneFan
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                  @HurricaneFan forgot to tell: operation wolf

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                    UDb23
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                    Tried again and now it works great. Bar was positioned incorrectly I think.

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                      UDb23 @HurricaneFan
                      last edited by UDb23

                      @HurricaneFan Do you know if it would work also as steering wheel for driving games?
                      Dolphinbar manual mentions this function but no idea on how to activate it with advmame.

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                        mediamogul Global Moderator @UDb23
                        last edited by mediamogul

                        @UDb23

                        Dolphinbar manual mentions this function

                        I actually contacted the manufacturer about that claim and they said it was a feature that could only be used in Dolphin. However, it pretty clearly says in both the manual and website that it should be available as an alternative control method for for the USB HID controller mode. I also asked around on the Dolphin emu forums, as the device is widespread there, but no one knew anything about it. It would be great to use it as a steering wheel, or for other analog control schemes. The implementation of Stella on my hacked Wii makes use of the same idea for nuanced paddle control and it works extremely well.

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                          BGallagherLA @mediamogul
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                          @mediamogul I know that there is a steering wheel mount thing that you can put a Wiimote in, but I dont think that comes with pedals. Even if the steering wheel does work, you'd probably have to get a separate thing for the pedals, and i'm assuming that would be a nightmare to set up/configure. Would be super cool though...

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                            mediamogul Global Moderator @BGallagherLA
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                            @BGallagherLA

                            I have a few of the official Wii Wheels. They're a surprising amount of fun.

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                              BGallagherLA @mediamogul
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                              @mediamogul Have you gotten them to work on RetroPie? Do you need pedals, or can you just map the Wiimote buttons as gas/brake?

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                                mediamogul Global Moderator @BGallagherLA
                                last edited by mediamogul

                                @BGallagherLA

                                I haven't tried it myself, although I'm pretty sure it won't work in conjunction with the DolphinBar unless that advertised sensor mode is somehow alluding us. However, if any of the linux Wiimote drivers pass the g-sensor information along as an analog controller axis, then it should work just fine.

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                                  HurricaneFan
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                                  @gunpadawan I'm getting this error when I try to install the setup.py script step:

                                  pi@retropie:~/gunconf $ python setup.py install
                                  Traceback (most recent call last):
                                    File "setup.py", line 1, in <module>
                                      from setuptools import setup, find_packages
                                  
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                                    gunpadawan @HurricaneFan
                                    last edited by gunpadawan

                                    @HurricaneFan sounds like you are missing setuptools
                                    try this:
                                    sudo apt install python-setuptools

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                                      HurricaneFan @gunpadawan
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                                      @gunpadawan Now it's throwing this error:

                                      pi@retropie:~/gunconf $ python setup.py install
                                      running install
                                      error: can't create or remove files in install directory

                                      The following error occurred while trying to add or remove files in the
                                      installation directory:

                                      [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/test-easy-install-1018.write-test'
                                      

                                      The installation directory you specified (via --install-dir, --prefix, or
                                      the distutils default setting) was:

                                      /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/
                                      

                                      Perhaps your account does not have write access to this directory? If the
                                      installation directory is a system-owned directory, you may need to sign in
                                      as the administrator or "root" account. If you do not have administrative
                                      access to this machine, you may wish to choose a different installation
                                      directory, preferably one that is listed in your PYTHONPATH environment
                                      variable.

                                      For information on other options, you may wish to consult the
                                      documentation at:

                                      https://pythonhosted.org/setuptools/easy_install.html

                                      Please make the appropriate changes for your system and try again.

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