Dear Vizzed.com and anyone whom it may concern.
Hello, I am the Shogun Gamer, also known as Vizzed Shogun Gamer on youtube, and I have a suggestion to present to the Vizzed Board upon the subject of Light Gun/Crosshair games.
During my beta testing, I was searching page by page testing games I recognized from my childhood to see if they work or not. One of these games happened to be a rail shooter called Rail Chase. The object of this game is to protect yourselves from obstacles and enemies in your mine cart with your rapid fire gun, controlled by the cross hair on the screen. I've played this game long ago on a MAME emulator I used and was able to set up my controls on my gamepad how it would feel comfortable, quick, and smooth when I'd use my analog stick to aim as a please, or even my directional pad to digitally move the cursor. However, this time around, when I played the game on vizzed, I used the arrow keys to move the crosshair. The crosshair moved slowly on the screen, and aiming at many enemies on both sides of the screen was much too hard considering I would have to take them all down as fast as possible in a short amount of time. I thought to myself, "it's MAME, so I should be able to set my digital crosshair speed X and Y to a higher amount." To my misfortune, I couldn't, for there was no option on the control setup to do so.
It has come to my attention that if MAME is released December and this issue isn't noticed, games like Time Crisis, Rail Chase, and Jurassic Park, will be unplayable, at least so to say that the controls will make the games frustrating. I did make a forum relating this on the Rail Chase game page but realized, it won't be noticed unless it's in the correct sub forum, not mention, I lacked much sleep so I wasn't in my right mind.
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=47823
My suggestion is to add the digital speed adjustments, and perhaps even the sensitivity and return to center speed adjustments (for those who use gamepads with analog sticks) to the mame set up controls with rail shooters, games that involve the light gun, and etc. Though making it specific would probably be much of a hassle and too much work to look through every game just to play some controls that could improve the gameplay; I would only recommend to take your time and not worry too much for I would never want to place any stress on the moderators of the site. I can't help but worry if it would be a lot of work, but it would be very much appreciated to add these control adjustments in the future.
I actually do have one more suggestion if you don't mind me editing this because I feel it's important to what I'm doing right now as a beta tester searching through 1000 pages of MAME. If a multi page skip engine would be possible, to skip 10 pages rather than just 1 every time, or even a bar to type in a page number and jump straight to it, would be very helpful. It really bothers me to close down my browser, or lose my history and have to go page by page back to the page number I was on. I searched 300 pages of MAME and, I wish I could skip straight back to it without pressing next 300 times. But, please don't bother with it if it's too much to deal with, for I can't have admins wasting time on something they could possibly find useless. And I certainly don't want to overwork the administration or I could never forgive myself after all that they have done for this wonderful community.
Thank you for everything moderators vizzed.com, always do your best, but don't push yourself too hard. With love to you all.
Love, Shogun Gamer
(I had recently moved this forum from a wrong section and I seek help from a moderator to delete the previous forum where I had placed it in the wrong section: Help/Questions Suggestions subforum. Thank you. I only hope now that I placed it in the right forum, for I had somehow confused myself when I read the instructions on the help/questions section. I apologize dearly for my misunderstanding.)
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=47861&ppp=20&page=0#659272
(And suddenly, I check my forum to make sure it is in the right section again, and it has removed itself from Suggestions subforum. Please I need help.I have no way of placing it back in the suggestions section.)