List of Emulators for PC

To have bigger range of light gun games for PC you can use Emulators.

• It exist a very good emulator for Arcade machines named MAME.
• the Playstation 2 emulator PCSX 2 is getting better and better.
• the WII emulator named Dolphin works really fine with it's light gun games.

Normally Light Guns are recognized in Windows like mouse device. You have to make the configuration for mouse input.


Emulators :

Emulator	Operating System	Link	Light Guns supported
Dolphin	Windows 7,XP,Vista	http://www.dolphin-emulator.com	Wii Remote Plus
MAME	Windows 7,Vista,XP	http://mamedev.org	Configure mouse as input to use light gun as controller
PCSX 2	Windows 7,Vista,XP	http://pcsx2.net	Configure mouse as input to use light gun as controller

Start using MAME

• First you have to download MAME.
• Next you have to install a window based frontend for MAME to have no to work with a command line.
  You can install for example MAMEUI which you can find here: http://mameui.info. MameUI contains a list of all available games. The games are separated by folders. It exist one folder which contain all light gun games.
  On this site you will find also a good collection of icons and snapshots. Use them with MAMEUI. Configure MAMEUI the way that it can access the icon folder and snapshot folder.
• Then you have to download a MAME Artwork compilation. MameUI can be configured to see most of the content of the Artwork collection within the application self.
• To play a game using your light gun/mouse you have to configure the game to use mouse input. Select a light gun game press right mouse button choose "Properties". Click on tab "Controllers" and select "Enable mouse input".
• Next you need the games files which are named ROM and CHD files

PCSX 2 Example Configuration

Configuration to use mouse as light gun in Virtua Cop 2
Configuration -> Controller -> Plugin
Choose in Group "Mouse API"

• select - Raw input (XP and Later only)
• unselect - Start without mouse focus

Select Group "Left Analog Stick"

• Press button "UP" (move mouse to button "Up" and press "enter") move mouse up
• Press button "Down" (move mouse to button "Down" and press "enter") move mouse down
• Press button "Left" (move mouse to button "Left" and press "enter") move mouse left
• Press button "Right" (move mouse to button "Right" and press "enter") move mouse right

And the end the configuration should look like this
L-Button - Square - Shoot
R-Button - Circle - Reload Gun
M-Button -
X Axis + = L-Stick Right
X Axis - = L-Stick Left
Y Axis + = L-Stick Down
Y Axis - = L-Stick Up

Other buttons should be assigned to your gamepad

Dolphin - WII Emulator

To start playing WII games on PC you need the following:

• Bluetooth Adapter (Recomended: >=2.1
• WII Motion Plus/Wiimote Device (Note: Motion Plus is not yet supported. It will be only recognized as Wiimote)
• wireless sensor bar
• Nunchuk (Depending on the game)