Can someone please help me get my mouse working in mame

[coppermouse]

I cannot get any trackball games to work. I have a trackball connected to an ipac going into the serial port on the computer. Trackball or mouse works fine in Windows.
I am running Windows 7 pro 64 bit
MAME64 ver 0.172
I edited mame.ini and set mouse to 1 and trackball_device to mouse
I also tried a USB mouse.
Please help. Everything worked ok on my old computer running 0.038

[Titchgamer]

2 stupid things to check first:

1) Have you configured the trackball in the mame options after pressing the tab button?
If so was it recognised ok?

2) some games have to be enabled to use trackballs/spinners etc via there service menu which can be activated via pressing F2.

[coppermouse]

Yes it says mouse x and mouse y in the tab config menu

I will try F2 tonight

[BadMouth]

Yes it says mouse x and mouse y in the tab config menu

I will try F2 tonight

...but does MAME recognize the mouse when you try to remap them there?

[coppermouse]

 I am not sure what you mean "...but does MAME recognize the mouse when you try to remap them there?: ? Can you explain to me better?

Had no luck with using F2, still does not work, and actually I am stuck in the service menu for centipede and cannot get out

[Titchgamer]

When you enter the tab menu and scroll down the list to mouse x and y hit enter (on either) and move your trackball in the associated way.
If mame is recognising it then it will map it to your track ball.
If not there is something else wrong.

[PL1]

I am not sure what you mean "...but does MAME recognize the mouse when you try to remap them there?: ? Can you explain to me better?

To remap controls in the MAME "Input (this Game)" menu:
- Use the up/down arrow keys to highlight the control you want to remap i.e. "Track X Analog"
- Press Enter
- Move the trackball horizontally
- MAME should register that movement and map the trackball X-axis to the "Track X Analog" input
- Do the same for "Track Y Analog" with the vertical Y-axis

If you make a mistake, Enter then ESC will set the highlighted input to "none" and Enter then ESC again will return the input to the default setting.

Had no luck with using F2, still does not work, and actually I am stuck in the service menu for centipede and cannot get out

If you get stuck in a service menu, press F3 to reset/reboot the game.


Scott

[coppermouse]

No it does not map the trackball when I try that in the tab config menu

[PL1]

No it does not map the trackball when I try that in the tab config menu

Something in MAME isn't properly configured.

Your mame.ini file should be in the "..\mame\ini\" folder.

-- If it isn't, move it there.

-- If it is, please post a copy so we can help you troubleshoot.


Scott
EDIT: Just noticed that you're using MAME64.

Is there a menu in the MAME64 GUI that allows you to enable trackball?

MAMEUIFX has a "Default Games Options--Controllers" menu with that option.

[Titchgamer]

Dont think mame 64 has that menu Scott.

But yeah post up the contents of your ini file that should give us some clues....

[BadMouth]

Dont think mame 64 has that menu Scott.

But yeah post up the contents of your ini file that should give us some clues....

It's been ages ago, but back when I first started messing around with this stuff I used MAME Plus. (circa v.128)
It turned out that it had it's own ini file in some other folder and making changes to the mame.ini in the main folder made no difference.

Could be something similar going on.

[SlyBlueFox]

Have you enabled multimouse in MAME?

[pbj]

Mouse support was removed from MAME in an effort to make it "more accurate."

[coppermouse]

Here is my mame.ini. Putting it in the \ini directory did not help. Renamed it to mame.txt as this site will not allow .ini extension

Multimouse is not enabled, I will enable it tonight.

Mouse support was removed?

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[Titchgamer]

Other than enabling multimouse to 1 that looks ok and should work.

[coppermouse]

Ok thanks. I will try that when I get home tonight

[PL1]

Mouse support was removed?

PBJ's gotta PBJ.   

Multimouse is not enabled, I will enable it tonight.

For now, that shouldn't make a difference since MAME doesn't see any mouse devices yet.

First get MAME to recognize mice, then enable multimouse if you want/need to isolate the mouse inputs.

inipath                   .;ini

Not sure if it makes a difference, but mine doesn't have the ".;"

I don't see anything else in there that might cause problems.   

--------
If there's a "centiped.ini" file, delete it, launch Centipede again, and try mapping the mouse controls again.
-- In the "Controls (this Game)" menu, does "Track X Analog" show up as "Mouse X" or something else?
-- Can you remap other controls like P1 Button 1?

--------
If that doesn't work, you might need to delete mame.ini and generate a new one using "mame -cc".

--------
If that doesn't work, did you download MAME from MAMEDEV or is it a GUI build like MAMEUI or MAMEUIFX?


Scott

[coppermouse]

multimouse 1 did not help. I downloaded mame64.exe from mame dev. I deleter centipede config and it still will not map

[Titchgamer]

Hmm
What track ball u using? Though tbh ime running out of ideas?

Is it just centipede u having trouble with or any game?

[PL1]

Try these 4 steps:

1. Delete mame.ini, generate a new one with "mame -cc", and only change mouse to "1" in the new mame.ini. (fresh ini file with only one change made = best chance of success)

2. In the "Controls (this Game)" menu, does "Track X Analog" show up as "Mouse X" or something else? (tests if MAME recognizes that mouse is supposed to be enabled)

3. Can you map a different keystroke to P1 Button1?  (verifies that MAME can remap controls)

4. If so, when you exit MAME and re-launch it, does it retain the re-mapped key? (tests if MAME files are set to "read only")


Scott

[coppermouse]

Ok I followed those steps and in the new mame.ini I noticed ini was set to ini/presets, so I copied the ini file to the ini/presets/ directory and it works. Thanks for all the help!!!!

[RCalabraro]

I am having a similar problem. I just installed MAME64. There is no mame.ini file that I can see. Please help!

[PL1]

I am having a similar problem. I just installed MAME64. There is no mame.ini file that I can see. Please help!

Installing MAME doesn't generate a mame.ini file.

You have to run MAME with the "-cc" (create config) option one time to do that.
- For example, if your MAME executable is MAME64.exe, run "MAME64 -cc".

After that, you can edit mame.ini to enable mouse.   


Scott

[retrometro]

I can confirm from 2020 that anyone with mouse issues being recognized in MAME, the main two lines to look for in main mame.ini or your individual game's ini file is to ensure that

Code: [Select]

mouse = 1
multimouse = 1


[Wavfact]

Well..  sorry.. reviving an old thread....

I have the same issue...   I did the "mame -cc".. Checked where it was looking for the ini file and put a copy there..  I enabled both mouse and multimouse in the ini file, rebooted and tried setting the mouse in the game config menu..  Nothing..

I am using a pi4 8gb, RetroPie v4.7.12.  Controller is a Mini-Pac with a Ultimarc U-Trak trackball which is plugged in the board..  When I rin "cat /dev/input/mouse0" I get feedback when moving the trackball..  Trackball work in retroarch gui and also in Pexil...  My mame version is 1.8.8 and emulator is mame2016

I've spent days on this and not getting anywhere...  Man, I really could use some suggestions..

BTW: I did add mame2016-mame_current_mouse_enable = "enabled" to core config..   In retroach.cfg I tried setting the index for player 1 from 0 thru 6 with no change..

[Luzie]

Just had this problem today and found the soluition:

Maybe mouse is set to 0 in GAMENAME.INI-File?