Lightguns (Sinden / DolphinBar)

[prince-rakeem]

Anyone successfully get the Sinden lightguns working with any of the ALG games such as Crime Patrol or Mad Dog McCree?

[DirtBagXon]

DolphinBar/WiiMote and Sinden

On Linux and Windows (Mac untested). DoplhinBar/WiiMote work as a standard mouse/gun control in Singe games.
Out-of-the-box (Mode 2) works best.

There is however an issue in RPi SDL2 mouse input where the cursor is restricted to the top left quarter of the screen.

There is currently no resolution on the RPi, but a work-a-round is to specify lower resolution using the -x and -y arguments until the responsive area covers the complete screen.

See below 👇

[DirtBagXon]

Regarding Sinden:

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/262891

Seems that the closed source drivers are required to recognise the borders in this thread.

It does however appear to work as a mouse natively, however without the borders I assume accuracy is lacking.......

Also some mention of resolution misunderstanding on the Pi, which echoes the DolphinBar issues above......

[DirtBagXon]

DolphinBar/WiiRemote and Sinden - Working

The RPi issue is fixed via the Singe argument -manymouse

Fix in merge: 1710367

Also verified on Sinden (See below) ✔️

[prince-rakeem]

Since the right side back button registered as both LEFTALT and B using evtest, I just went with assigning B which is working as it should for insert coin.

Since my hypinput.ini was empty I only have the below in there, the rest are using built-in default:

[KEYBOARD]
KEY_COIN1 = SDLK_5 SDLK_b 0

but if you were to use the full config it would look like this. The only change I made from default is to the KEY_COIN1 line:

[KEYBOARD]
KEY_UP = SDLK_UP 0 0 -002
KEY_DOWN = SDLK_DOWN 0 0 +002
KEY_LEFT = SDLK_LEFT 0 0 -001
KEY_RIGHT = SDLK_RIGHT 0 0 +001
KEY_COIN1 = SDLK_5 SDLK_b 0
KEY_COIN2 = SDLK_6 0 0
KEY_START1 = SDLK_1 0 0
KEY_START2 = SDLK_2 0 0
KEY_BUTTON1 = SDLK_LCTRL 0 0
KEY_BUTTON2 = SDLK_LALT 0 0
KEY_BUTTON3 = SDLK_SPACE 0 0
KEY_SKILL1 = SDLK_LSHIFT 0 0
KEY_SKILL2 = SDLK_z 0 0
KEY_SKILL3 = SDLK_x 0 0
KEY_SERVICE = SDLK_9 0 0
KEY_TEST = SDLK_F2 0 0
KEY_RESET = SDLK_0 0 0
KEY_SCREENSHOT = SDLK_F12 0 0
KEY_QUIT = SDLK_ESCAPE 0 0
KEY_PAUSE = SDLK_p 0 0
KEY_CONSOLE = SDLK_BACKSLASH 0 0
KEY_TILT = SDLK_t 0 0
END

KEY_COIN1 = SDLK_5 SDLK_b 0 = Sinden right side back button = insert coin
KEY_START1 = SDLK_1 0 0 = Sinden right side front button = start

All the other Sinden buttons correspond to mouse buttons (minus the dpad):

Left Mouse Button = Sinden Trigger = shoot and change options in service menu
Middle Mouse Button = Sinden Left side back button = as of writing I'm not sure what it does, if anything.
Right Mouse Button = Sinden Reload (pump action) AND Left side front button (as of writing I didn't test the button only the pump).

The dpad does register keycodes in evtest, see below:

Testing ... (interrupt to exit)
Event: time 1629635200.861456, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 70052
Event: time 1629635200.861456, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 103 (KEY_UP), value 1
Event: time 1629635200.861456, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1629635201.032522, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 70052
Event: time 1629635201.032522, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 103 (KEY_UP), value 0
Event: time 1629635201.032522, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1629635203.483836, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 70051
Event: time 1629635203.483836, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 108 (KEY_DOWN), value 1
Event: time 1629635203.483836, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1629635203.654831, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 70051
Event: time 1629635203.654831, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 108 (KEY_DOWN), value 0
Event: time 1629635203.654831, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1629635204.309925, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 70050
Event: time 1629635204.309925, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 105 (KEY_LEFT), value 1
Event: time 1629635204.309925, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1629635204.463947, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 70050
Event: time 1629635204.463947, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 105 (KEY_LEFT), value 0
Event: time 1629635204.463947, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1629635205.173042, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 7004f
Event: time 1629635205.173042, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 106 (KEY_RIGHT), value 1
Event: time 1629635205.173042, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1629635205.339053, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 7004f
Event: time 1629635205.339053, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 106 (KEY_RIGHT), value 0
Event: time 1629635205.339053, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------

I haven't made any attempt to configure it as of yet since I only need the insert coins, start, trigger and reload to play the ALG shooters (as far as I believe). The only additional thing I could see as helpful is a button to enter the service menu to change difficulty, crosshairs, etc.

[DirtBagXon]

dpad might correspond to the following, you would need to try:

KEY_UP      SDLK_UP
KEY_DOWN    SDLK_DOWN
KEY_LEFT    SDLK_LEFT
KEY_RIGHT   SDLK_RIGHT

Which you should be able to re-assign in a dedicated config file, as it uses mouse for navigation. e.g.

KEY_UP = 0 0 0 -002
KEY_SERVICE = SDLK_9 SDLK_UP 0

That would give you another 4 buttons.

Yeah '9' service button is useful, but wouldn't 'normally' be on a joystick I don't think.... ?

So, I assume you are having to run the Sinden closed source software for all this to work ?

How is that being run ?

[prince-rakeem]

Ya, the service menu isn't a big deal. Really a set it and forget it unless you plan to change difficulty and its easy enough to press 9 on my keyboard :) Maybe I will try to assign it to one of the dpad at some point since it's not being used for anything in-game. For now I need to enjoy some actual gaming versus configuring :)

And yes, I am running the Sinden closed source software. The installer puts a few shell scripts in the Retropie ports folder which you can use to test the lightgun's crosshair calibration (1 for each lightgun), start the lightguns (required before launching a game) and stop the lightgun(s).

It is actually using mono (for calibration test) and mono-service (for actually running the lightguns in-game) to run an .exe.

Thanks again for the help with getting this going, much appreciated. I have been giving you props in the Sinden Discord as others there were also interested in getting the lightguns working with Singe :)

[DirtBagXon]

Perfect, and many thanks for the exposure and information.

I am going to mark this as answered, as I think we got there 😁

[DirtBagXon]

Merge: c7acbaf

-sinden argument automatically enables -manymouse

So you can simplify

-blend_sprites -manymouse -x 800 -y 600 -sinden 5 w

as

-blend_sprites -x 800 -y 600 -sinden 5 w

[D-an-W]

Adding Credits and Starting Game with Wiimote:

Whilst waiting for Sinden's to arrive I am using a Dolphin Bar and Wiimote (Tested only Maddog so far but works great).

The only thing I couldn't do was add credits and start the game with the Wiimote, so after reading the latest developments I ran evtest...

pi@arcade1up:~ $ evtest
No device specified, trying to scan all of /dev/input/event*
Not running as root, no devices may be available.
Available devices:
/dev/input/event0: HJZ Mayflash Wiimote PC Adapter
/dev/input/event1: HJZ Mayflash Wiimote PC Adapter Mouse
/dev/input/event2: HJZ Mayflash Wiimote PC Adapter Consumer Control
/dev/input/event3: DragonRise Inc. Generic USB Joystick
/dev/input/event4: DragonRise Inc. Generic USB Joystick
Select the device event number [0-4]:

Picking event0: from that list showed the following information when pressing Button 1 and 2 on the Wiimote...

Testing ... (interrupt to exit)
Event: time 1629835990.270116, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 7004b
Event: time 1629835990.270116, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 104 (KEY_PAGEUP), value 1
Event: time 1629835990.270116, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1629835990.527765, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 104 (KEY_PAGEUP), value 2
Event: time 1629835990.527765, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1629835990.527765, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 7004b
Event: time 1629835990.527765, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 104 (KEY_PAGEUP), value 0
Event: time 1629835990.527765, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1629835991.958453, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 7004e
Event: time 1629835991.958453, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 109 (KEY_PAGEDOWN), value 1
Event: time 1629835991.958453, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1629835992.158523, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 7004e
Event: time 1629835992.158523, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 109 (KEY_PAGEDOWN), value 0
Event: time 1629835992.158523, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------

After talking to DirtBagXon I added the following to hyinput.ini which now allows me to use Button 1 to add credits and 2 to start the game...

KEY_COIN1 = SDLK_5 1073741899 0
KEY_START1 = SDLK_1 1073741902 0

[ghost]

You can find the Dolphinbar keys here : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1whlKx0I716VFFrYCUJZX_7EHYg7cbJ54/view

Buttons 1 and 2 are Page Up/Down in Mode 1, but Vol Up/Down in Mode 2.

[DirtBagXon]

This would mean using the following decimal keycodes in place of the example by @D-an-W

KEY_COIN1 = SDLK_5 1073741952 0
KEY_START1 = SDLK_1 1073741953 0

I will add these 4 keys to the translation table on the next release, so the names, rather than decimals, can be used in config:

SDLK_PAGEUP
SDLK_PAGEDOWN
SDLK_VOLUMEUP
SDLK_VOLUMEDOWN

[DirtBagXon]

Merge: c7acbaf

Now means you can use the following in config for Wii Remotes:

KEY_COIN1 = SDLK_5 SDLK_PAGEUP 0
KEY_START1 = SDLK_1 SDLK_PAGEDOWN 0

KEY_COIN1 = SDLK_5 SDLK_VOLUEMUP 0
KEY_START1 = SDLK_1 SDLK_VOLUMEDOWN 0

[DirtBagXon]

Further key MACRO definitions for use with Dolphinbar in Mode 2 (SDLK_LGUI added in v2.6.16):

SDLK_ESCAPE  for -
SDLK_RETURN  for +
SDLK_LGUI      for Home