Carnevil Tutorial : How I was able to get this Classic Midway Game to work on MAME.
CarnEvil Tutorial: CarnEvil was one of the first Light Gun games out there. It was released by Midway on October 31st, 1998. I like many others have literally spent hours trying to get this game to work with MAME and have continually fallen down the rabbit hole, finding no end. I had reached out to other youtubers that had videos about CarnEvil, but for some reason they were less than willing to help. So after many more hours of trial and error.....I had a breakthrough!!!! I finally was able to get CarnEvil to work with a version of Mame. I have created this video so that anyone else that is out there and has been as frustrated as I will no longer have to wait. I hope this tutorial finds all of you die hard retro fans well and if you have any questions just shoot me a comment.
Happy Hunting
Vincent Serpico
**4-40-22 UPDATE: I am finding that since the MAME Version used in the tutorial is an older version, some people who have newer computers with updated systems like Windows 11 are not able to get the game to work. (Version0179b_64bit must be too antiquated) Unfortunately, using my method seems to only work on older systems. I've only run into a couple people who have had this issue, but if your running into problems this could be your answer. If you have an older system test it on that. Thanks**
So to streamline everything I have placed one link to my website. This link will provide you with all the files that you need.
Mame0179b_64bit (The correct Emulator)
carnevil.zip (The correct ROM) (Contains both: boot.u32 & sound102.u95)
carnevil.chd - (The CHD File)
***IMPORTANT - THE FIREFOX BROWSER DOES NOT ALLOW YOU TO DOWNLOAD MY LINK FROM THE WEBSITE PROPERLY - YOU WILL NEED TO USE ANOTHER - THE BEST IS GOOGLE CHROME**
**NOTE SOME BROWSERS WILL UNZIP THE (carnevil.zip) aka:(ROM) PRIOR TO DOWNLOAD, IF THIS HAPPENS YOU MUST TAKE THE UNZIPPED FILES AND REZIP THEM. THE ROM ONLY WORKS AS A ZIP FILE**
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****************UPDATE ON USING THE MOUSE AND ADJUSTING SETTINGS********************
THE GAME HAS CERTAIN DEFAULTS FOR THE CONTROLS WHEN IT IS LOADED IN. IT IS BEST TO CALIBRATE YOUR MOUSE TO ACT AS THE TRADITIONAL LIGHT GUN, THAT IS IF YOUR USING A MOUSE TO MOVE THE CROSSHAIRS. ALSO, TO ASSIGN THE MOUSE BUTTONS FOR FIRE AND RELOAD. (ALT - IS THE KEYBOARD RELOAD) HOWEVER, YOU CAN ASSIGN THE KEYS HOWEVER IS BEST FOR YOURSELF.
CHECK OUT MY OTHER SUPPLIMENTAL VIDEO TO LEARN HOW TO DO THIS OR FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS BELOW.
• CarnEvil: How to Calib...
1ST - Go into advanced options and under input options check mouse and uncheck the joystick.
2ND - You have to calibrate the mouse.
When you start the game the screen with "CarnEvil 1.0.3" appears, press F2
This will take you to the Diagnostic Screen.
Navigate using + (up) and - (down)
Highlight : GUN CALIBRATION and press ( F2)
Here you can calibrate the left (green) gun (ie: the mouse)
Follow the directions to get the mouse calibrated as a light gun (The screen will have you move the crosshair to an “X” in the top left corner, once on it fire(in the case of your mouse the right mouse button is your fire button) then the “X” will appear in the lower right corner. Place your crosshair on it and fire/click again. Finally it will have you fire at the center of the screen.
It will default to the right gun, press G three times to go back to the menu.
***If the right light gun calibration does not recognize the “G” key you will have to do the following:
Press Tab: Press Input this Machine: Scroll to P2 - Button 1: Press Enter: Press G: Press Tab to exit***
Now Press “G” 3 times, the menu will reappear, scroll to exit and press F2
Last - You can assign buttons to your own preference by pressing TAB
Scroll to : Input (This Machine) (Assign button by pressing Enter on the field and then hitting the key you want to assign on the keyboard)
Important Keys to assign:
P1 button 1 - right mouse button (this is your fire button)
P1 button 2 - left mouse button (this is your reload)
1 Player Start - 1
Coin 1 - 5
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For anyone having trouble getting the mouse to move/shoot this is what you have to do. Go into advanced options and under input options check mouse and uncheck the joystick. Then you have to calibrate the mouse by starting the game and at the "CarnEvil 1.0.3" whatever screen, press F2 and it will take you to the Diagnostic Screen. Navigate using - and =. Here you can calibrate the left gun by highlighting GUN CALIBRATION and pressing F2. Follow the directions, then when it wants to calibrate the right gun, press A three times to go back to the menu. Then simply go down to EXIT, press 9, and you're all set! Also, don't forget to assign buttons for coin insert and start in MAME settings.
Thanks for the feedback everyone, I'm glad you have been finding my tutorial helpful. I have tried to streamline everything now so I have made one link to my website that will provide all the files you need to get you up an running. I have found that some are having problems with other websites that I had linked for the CHD. Therefore, I have just included all of them in one place for convenience.
To Vladimir Long: again for some reason I am having trouble responding to certain comments. I tried to respond to your comment about yours suggestion, but the notification tab will not let me. So with that being said, I unfortunately could only read about have of your comment. If you happen to see this please try commenting again. Thanks Vladimir.
Thank you for the help
can someone help me with this on team viewer
You're a kind man, this was the only heplful tutorial i can find thank you so much for taking the time
Well I got it up and running on my windows 11 computer. If this verison of mame in the video doesn't work try mame 196. Even if you get it running your still gonna have to calibrate your controller
How do you make the game run faster? I could barely even play the game because how slow it is.
I have literally been trying to get this on Mame since 2008. With this video I was able to do it in 5 minutes lmfao. Thank you so much dude. One more victory for game preservation, no less with a Sinden Lightgun!
Anyone know how to get carnevil to work for android?
Just want to add my thanks to you for uploading this. It made the process really easy and it would have taken me forever to get all this done. Thanks again.
Thank you so much for this tutorial! I needed this to refresh my memory on how to do it. I used to play this on my PC back in 2010.
Hello Vincent! Thank you very much for your huge help, at last after a while I was able to play again this awesome game on my PC, take care and thank you so much!
have wondered how to get this game going - no wonder - great guide - got this to work with both my wii lightgun - for those wondering why aiming might be off - the key i found is make sure you go into the service menu (f2 by default) and then use the + and - keys to navigate - goto gun calibration and follow instructions - i turned on freeplay as well - works a bloody treat and straight into launchbox it goes! thanks again
Thanks so much, man. I couldn't have done it without you. I've wanted to play this for a long time and now I finally can. : D
Amazing tutorial, been checking out your website and I'm really fascinated by all your work
Dude, Thank You for this! I’ve been having the same problems with this game for months! It works! You’re the Man! 👍
Tremendous video! You helped make the game work & gave some pro tips about MAME. Respect.
Hey vincent Thank you for making this video. This really did help me out because I didn't know how to get this emulator let alone the game to work. So thank you for the assistance
Thank you for this guide!! I'll have a lightgun soon and I really wanna play this again. The Tilt at my mall closed down over a decade ago and I haven't seen this game since