Problems Changing Lightgun to Mouse Controls

[GBeavers]

Hey Everyone,

I'm having a little issue here with the controls for lightgun games. I'm wanting to use my mouse pad as a light gun when playing arcade games.

I've found threads that point out to simply change some lines of text in the MAME.ini file. Only problem is I don't seem to have one.

I've located the folder where it should be with the MAME.exe but the only .ini file I have there is a ui.ini file.

I'm pretty sure I'm missing something really obvious here but can anyone help?

[JoeViking245]

Start MAME (double-click mame.exe)

Double-click General Settings

Double-click Save Settings

Press Escape twice (to completely exit MAME)

You'll now have a "mame.ini" file

 

You could also, while you're in the General Settings, double-click Input Device Options and set the Light Gun Device Assignment to mouse. (select it and press the right arrow key)  But don't forget to Save Settings afterwards.

[GBeavers]

41 minutes ago, JoeViking245 said:

Start MAME (double-click mame.exe)

Double-click General Settings

Double-click Save Settings

Press Escape twice (to completely exit MAME)

You'll now have a "mame.ini" file

 

You could also, while you're in the General Settings, double-click Input Device Options and set the Light Gun Device Assignment to mouse. (select it and press the right arrow key)  But don't forget to Save Settings afterwards.

Thank you so much for that. I did a fresh install before reading this.

Finally figured out that the game I was wanting to play wasn't a lightgun it was actually a joystick input for some reason.

So I changed the input options for the mouse to 1 and now it seems to be working.

[JoeViking245]

9 minutes ago, GBeavers said:

Finally figured out that the game I was wanting to play wasn't a lightgun it was actually a joystick input for some reason.

lol.  As long as you learned something.