01043: m79amb: There's considerable difficulty in aiming in the game.

ID	Category [?]	Severity [?]	Reproducibility	Date Submitted	Last Update
01043	DIP/Input	Feature	Have not tried	Feb 8, 2008, 18:28	Aug 24, 2009, 07:15

Tester	TriggerFin	View Status	Public	Platform
Assigned To	hap	Resolution	Fixed	OS
Status [?]	Resolved			Driver	midw8080/m79amb.cpp
Version	0.37b14	Fixed in Version	0.133u4	Build
		Fixed in Git Commit		Github Pull Request #

Summary	01043: m79amb: There's considerable difficulty in aiming in the game.
Description	I noticed there's considerable difficulty in aiming in the game. It has never had one, but it should probably be given an aiming cursor, as was given other games, like blueshrk.
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Affected Sets / Systems	m79amb

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No.04236 derrickr Developer Apr 21, 2009, 14:07	Unfortunately there is more involved then just adding a crosshair. The original game used 2 fixed position guns. They did not track linearly due to being offset from center. So if a crosshair was added, it would not follow the shot position. There is no current way for MAME to handle non-linear gun tracking. There are other games with this problem. Jurassic Park and Laser Ghost are two other games with this problem IIRC.

No.04236

derrickr

Developer

Apr 21, 2009, 14:07

Unfortunately there is more involved then just adding a crosshair. The original game used 2 fixed position guns. They did not track linearly due to being offset from center. So if a crosshair was added, it would not follow the shot position.

There is no current way for MAME to handle non-linear gun tracking. There are other games with this problem. Jurassic Park and Laser Ghost are two other games with this problem IIRC.