neelsonwheels

I am referring to MAME and I figured it's a MAME issue. Sometimes it's a little funny to me how certain things get categorized. I presume it's simply the scale of the project, where lots of people work on it so weird things are bound to happen for time to time. While we're on the subject, where are the controller type data stored for MAME? I can't find it.

So after having a similar problem I figured out you need to use the names exactly as you see in Tools>Manage>Game Controllers. So with your example the value for me was "Generic Light Gun" rather than "Light Gun". Now my next question that I presume to be impossible to answer is why certain games got categorized with certain controllers. For the life of me I can't understand why a golf game gets categorized as using a light gun.