Lol, and as a american, I can agree with u-man about the SUPERSIZEME.we had a show here a few years back on the Discovery Channel called "BIG", where a group of engineers would have a deadline in building upscale models of regular things. If you have kids (like I do) lol, you really gotta be careful and keep a good eye on the guns - kids can pick them up and start playing with them and you might find them in the driveway or s better to have a wired so that ya can have at least a small leash on the matter. I've never had a wireless arcade lightgun, but I only can figure that it runs off of batteries, which poses a small problem of -a- always having to change them and spend money on batteries and -b- if you are in the middle of a game when your batteries start running out of juice, the gun will probably start losing functioinality. They have to run off of some power source. I gotta disagree with u-man about the wireless guns.Only because of two reasons - 1. They are located in the UK and they have a lightgun from what I hear that works pretty good. As for where to find them for a good price, considering your location, I would go through ultimarc. The movement of the cursor can be configured to work with the joysticks by looking under "Lightgun X Dec", Lightgun X Inc", "Lightgun Y Dec", and "Lightgun Y Inc" in the MAME input configuration (perferbaly using "input this game only".
I'm not sure about how to map the input config of a lightgun game to work with a mouse in MAME - though I know how to map it to the joysticks and buttons. If you have a CRT monitor, any lightgun will do without the sensor bar (this is all from what I've read about them so far lol) If you have an LCD or LED, ya gotta use a gun with a sensor bar. Make sure you get the right gun for the type of monitor you have. Also, I have tried unplugging all other mouse devices and same result.I don't know much yet on setting up a lightgun through mame, though that is one of the next things on my list becasue I'm planning on adding two lightguns. I am using Windows XP sp2 and just trying to get the mouse arrow to move correctly before trying to play any games.
I have tried standing as far as 10 feet away from the 42 inch lcd and it still seems to do the same thing. Even with the smaller monitor the mouse movevement is really shaky. It seems to work a little better but I have to stand so far away I can barely see it. I also have a 19 inch lcd that I test it on.
I have tried both the EMS and Smog drivers and they both do the same thing.
This should indicate there is no IR interference. When I am calibrating the gun recoils and the red dot does not blink at me. If I move even one or two inches forward from the point i calibrated at, the mouse will move erratically and go in random directions. When the bars are mounted vertically, I can get somewhat of a response in the direction i move the gun.
I calibrated according to the manual (ABCDE order). When mounted horizontal, then mouse doesn't know what direction to go in and moves very erratic. I have a 42inch Dynex LCD and have tried the sensor bars mounted horizontally and vertically. I am having calibration issues with a new Topgun II.