Shooting Games

[Toonces]

With the advent of the guncon2mouse driver (http://xoomer.virgilio.it/smogdragon/) and the wingun driver (http://www.acornscity.com/guncon/) it is now possible to have an inexpensive lightgun on your MAME machine that works with a TV or Arcade monitor. MAME32 supports the use of a lightgun with the -lightgun commandline option. I don't know if you want that enabled at all times as the driver looks like a mouse to the system and at least on mine, takes over as the primary mouse when active (Windows XP). As I have GameEx using a gamepad for navigation it does not affect navigating the gameex menus but when I launch Area51 or another gun game, my keyboard and mouse no longer function and the game does not recognize the gun. However, if I exit GameEx and run MAME32 then launch Area51, it works. I am sure I must have something in my config that is not quite right but I don't want the gun active all the time either.

It's pretty cool being able to play Area 51 with a wireless lightgun in mame

I'm not really looking for any new support by GameEx I don't think, just trying to iron out all these damn controllers

Any suggestions on how to enable the lightgun only for gun games?

Thanks!

Toonces

[Toonces]

Ok, played around some more and found that the setting for lightgun doesn't make a difference if the gun isn't on so that's not really a problem so just ignore me.

I also found that I keep forgetting about sorting the MAME list by category and you can just choose Shooter/Gun and get all the gun games.

Toonces

[djrobx]

Thanks for posting that, Toonces! I wasn't aware that they had made a driver for GunCon2. I've been desperately wanting an RGT-G1 (plasma/LCD compatible lightgun, I don't own any CRTs!) but have been holding off for a PC driver. Looks like it works in one of the posts on the forum. Naturally the RGTs are backordered now, but I can wait.