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Trackball Booster Kit from GGG and other trackball sensitivity questions

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taylormadelv:

This thread got sooo deep that I stopped reading and brainstromed something ridiculusly simple...are you certain that any mouse device other than your trackball is connected to your comp and may be causing the drift? I have had mouse issues where I thought the mouse was perfectly flat but actually was not completely flat and kept moving the screen curser very very slowly across the screen. Just an idea. A last resort will be for you to buy an new trackball and see if you have the same problems.

And just to stir the pot...all trackballs are basically the same and always have been. I even have proof. I have just connected my 4.5", original Missile Command trackball to my Golden Tee Fore! board (not mame) and it works fabulously! Once you've tried playing GT with a MC trackball, you will never go back! It feels awesome!
So all that crap about red vs green optic boards working or not working in 60 in 1 boards is just a few wires in different positions...

markronz:

Thanks Taylor, but my last post sort of moved us past that point.  The trackball works on one machine and not another.   So it appears to be a software issue.   Getting a new trackball will not help me.  I have two of them here.  Both work on the one machine, and both do not work on the problematic machine.  There are no other mice in play to cause and input conflicts.

markronz:

Well son of a  :censored:!!!

I fixed it!!!!!
 :applaud: :applaud: :applaud: :applaud: :applaud: :applaud: :applaud: :applaud: :applaud: :applaud: :applaud: :applaud: :applaud: :applaud:
 :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

I went through all the MAME folders, and re-copied them over from the working machine to the broken one.   Not sure which folder fixed it exactly, but it's working now!  When I re-copied over the MAME before, I only copied the MAME system files and such, not every single folder.   Well I finally took the time to copy it all over from my external hard drive.  Took about 2.5 hours to copy, but whatever was broken is now fixed.  I'd be lying if I said I wasn't curious to figure out what exactly was causing this, but I guess at this point, I'm sort of looking at it like, WHO CARES IT WORKS!

Thank you all so much for putting up with me, and for giving me all these great ideas to try!   So now, not only does the software work great, but the trackball spins great now too!  So the end result is all positive.   Sorry for my frustration along the way, and thank you again for all the help!

VanillaGorilla:

thank god! i was starting to get worried for your mental health! go play!

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