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By the way, tsoukkis, now that Touchmote's author reappeared, have you tried contacting him directly? Maybe he would be interested in using your modification on the main branch? Maybe going all the way and making a setup wizard  (wouldn't that be dream come true...)

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I think you're supposed to only set a Touchmote profile for Xinput controlls (your "Pointer" as either Left Stick or Right Stick), then in DemulShooter configure your controller preferance for said Xinput (Left Stick or Right Stick, and which buttons will act as left/middle/right click), and that's it. When hooked up right, DemulShooter is supposed to take over your Demul configuration, there's nothing to setup inside it.

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On 4/11/2017 at 6:54 AM, KD90 said:

Hi everyone, new here. I've had no trouble getting 2 wiimotes working in Mame, but has anyone had any success getting 2 wiimotes synced through the dolphin bar to work through DemulShooter etc? Problem is that you can't run the Wiimotes raw through the dolphin bar? Do i have to bite the bullet and buy AimTrak guns?

I haven't done it myself successfully but I think you need to set your Xinput devices in DemulShooter and then make a Touchmote profile with the stick and buttons you set there,

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Did you try calibrating it in the game devices panel? That usually solves issies where an axis is picking up a direction when its centered

In any case, it sounds like a script would definitely work as a workaround for your use case. Instead of launching the mame executable from launchbox, you could direct it to a silent BAT that...

- Launches touchmote.exe, waits for its process to be opened

- Then opens mame's executable, while passing any command line arguments needed (whatever you have setup on launchbox for options and lauching roms), waits for it to be closed

- After mame is closed, it terminates touchmote.exe. The script ends, you're back on launchbox

Of the top of my head I dont know the specific lines you'd need to write (I'm much more familiar with autohotkey than regular windows bats at this point, it's been a long time since I made the switch :p), but I'm sure that googling around you can find many examples, speciallu around mame and arcade cabinets communities.

If you can't figure it out, I could give it a try next time I sit on my gaming PC where I fiddle with this kind of stuff

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1 minute ago, Silentnight said:

Hmm I have my x1 pad there. I can easily unplug that, but I like controlling bigbox with a pad.

So I wonder if using my neogeo stick, or a genesis pad via Mayflash adaptor as the main controller would negate this issue. Working at the moment but i'll try without the x1 pad and see how I get on.

 

Appreciate that Spacorn cheers!

You could automate open/close Touchmote and enable/disable devices whenever you open/close certain apps with scripts, it's what I do, I became well versed in autohotkey solely by fixing issues like these lol

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On 23/7/2017 at 0:44 PM, Swrd said:

I am sooo close hahaha!

 

Got to build and boot the modified touchmote bin, thanks again for pointing me in the right direction.

 

Sadly, another problem! :'(

 

I can connect the wiimote to my modified touchmote, buttons respond but no way to get the cursor to move in either mouse mode or touch cursor.  When i try with regular touchmote, the cursor and mouse mode both work,

 

Maybe pertinent to mention, iam not using a mayflash dolphin bar but a real wii bar powered by a wii.

 

Sorry to bother you again with this, i am about to give up myself, but i wanted to check if you had any idea.

 

Thank you!

 

 

At some point I had a similar problem and I fixed it by reinstalling regular Touchmote and replacing all drivers and signatures, although your case is weird since one version works and other doesnt... Still worth a shot. Either that or try building it again and pay attention for any warnings, maybe you got an important error at some point

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7 minutes ago, spectral said:

Looks like I'll give this a miss then. Not really worth what it would cost for a wiimote and Dolphin bar, may aswell pay some extra and get the aimtrek gun at that point. Good for those who already have a spare wiimote I guess. It's a shame that after all these years with LCD displays we still haven't got anything as good as the old light guns were on CRT's.

Can confirm, DolphinBar doesnt work with third party wiimotes, but supposedly you could connect them with any other bluetooth dongle and USB sensor, that's the preferred method por Dolphin since now it detects wiimotes natively without third party drivers from dolphinbar, although I havent done it myself.

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2 hours ago, Silentnight said:

Ok just had a look at this and "use Z axis (triggers) to scroll" wasn't turned on in the first place. So back to square one

Do you have other Xinput devices? Either xbox controllers or PS3/PS4 with a wrapper like ScpDriver? I have a similar problem when my PS3 controler is on, can only have one of them connected at the same time 

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You probably do need to build it yourself after all. Hopefully at some point someone more knowledgeable on Visual Studio makes bins everyone can use. Until then...

 

You could try installing the DirectX SDK and Visual Studio version I linked to a few posts ago. That's all I needed to get to build it again on a clean Windows 10 install.

If you get any kind of dx-related errors when building maybe try checking if Visual Studio is findind the SDK files in your computer. (That's a problem I ran into, I fixed it by following instructions on this page)

 

Another thing to keep in mind (although it's probably obvious but I'm gonna point it out just in case) is that you need to have regular Touchmote installed because launching the binaries alone won't install drivers, device signatures and whatever other stuff it does to your system. So install regular Touchmote, then run tsuokkis build from a different folder.

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On 8/7/2017 at 11:36 AM, tsoukkis said:

Well, normally the built files should work fine. However I remember building on Windows 10, and then trying it on another Windows 10 machine and did not work!

I just had to format my PC because of an unrelated issue (main HDD died), and, what do you know, the binaries I built didn't work anymore, so I had to install VC2013, DxSDK, and everything, to make another one  

Oddly enough, the new one is a lot smaller (???), but so far it works just the same. I have absolutely no idea what makes this one work now and not the last one. Maybe it was because I had a year old version of Win10 on my last setup and now I'm on the latest update? Who knows... The important thing is that I got it working again, so I'm uploading the current one here just in case...

(Now I'm gonna disable Windows Updante on my gaming PC and clone the shit out of the current clean OS HDD to never have to go through this again.)

Touchmote-tsuokkis-bin-v2.zip

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Thanks! After a bit of fiddling I got it sorted out

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On 24/5/2017 at 2:07 AM, Thatman84 said:

Anyone got a view on if this would work with retroarch mame and shield tv? Or is the touchmote app the linch pin here.

I wanna test but dont wanna invest in stufff that wont work.

I just came across this old post, just wanted to mention that yes, Touchmote works with RetroArch. In fact, setting up MAME "inside" RetroArch is exactly the same, in-game you can access the same in-game configuration menus from standalone MAME, and you can find all of MAME's inis and cfg files inside RetroArch's system savefiles folder.

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By the way, tsoukkis, is there a way to increase the maximum range?

As it is, the "middle" is set on 0.5/0.5/0.5/0.5, left and top decreases, right and bottom increases. My dolphinbar is on the bottom of the screen, When I set the top margin, I go as low as 0.05, or even 0.00, but still I'm an inch from reaching the very top of the screen. I tried to use negatives (-0.10), but the range got even shorter (maybe it dismissed the negative symbol and read it as a positive...)

Actually I'm not even sure it's a Touchmote issue, maybe I reached the limit of the sensor's reach or whatever... But if it sounds like it could be a Touchmote issue, do you think that, maybe, setting the center at something other than 0.5 (for example 1.0, so I have a longer range before I reach 0.0) would let me set the margins farther?

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I wanted to ask before simply uploading it in case the reason was one of those open source forks policies things that us non-developers wouldn't know about 

Ok then! Here it is, for people who've had trouble building it themselves. I'm a bit skeptical about all the warning messages I got during the building process, so if whoever tries it, if you encounter any problems, go back to trying to build it yourself. I know jack shit about all this, all I did was following instructions and googling for whatever dependencies VS said I was missing.

This was made and used on Windoes 10 x64. Regular Touchmote drivers and app (v1.0b14_x64) were properly installed on the system before using this. Tested this fork on a different location, then when everything was right I moved it over the regular installed folder and overwrote it.

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On 17/6/2017 at 5:36 PM, ThePolish said:

I have no idea how to compile, is there a binary of the new fork compiled for download?

I didn't know before this either. It did prove a bit difficult because Microsoft's VS page doesn't have the Express 2012 version anymore, and I couldn't get it to build on the newer version (it didn't come with the libraries needed when I tried). I managed to track down a download installer for the 2013 version (close enough). After that I was still missing DirectX SDK. Only then I got it to build it. Got some warnings during the process, but the built files seem to work fine anyway.

 

I'm not sure about why tsoukkis decided to go this route instead of simply sharing his built binaries... Are we free to share our built files now? 

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Just came by to thank tsoukkis for his fork on Touchmote! I use my Wiimote to navigate my HTPC and have been depending on Touchmote for some time, so I was very happy to have a new version of it with major improvements!