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Author Topic: U-Trak trackball not working in MAME  (Read 6502 times)

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U-Trak trackball not working in MAME
« on: April 01, 2013, 05:37:28 pm »
Just wired up panel. Testing it out and the trackball will not work in mame.
It works fine in windows.
I went into the mame.ini file.

Under the core input options
I made trackball device 'mouse'
I have the mouse setting at '1'

My spinner works fine in windows and mame... and the spinner will do the left and right for me in a trackball game such as marble madness. And the joystick works all directions in the trackball games.

Any other options I can check?

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Re: U-Trak trackball not working in MAME
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2013, 08:00:54 pm »
Use a GUI build for set-up. Bet you fix it.
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Re: U-Trak trackball not working in MAME
« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2013, 08:06:54 pm »
If multiple mouse is enabled in the ini, then make sure it is remapped to the correct device. (mouse1, mouse2, etc)

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Re: U-Trak trackball not working in MAME
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2013, 06:40:57 am »
Use a GUI build for set-up. Bet you fix it.
I am not sure what you are saying to do here? Are you simply saying to use the GUI version of MAME?
I am running Hyperspin with mame.
Also tried mameui64 with no luck.....

If multiple mouse is enabled in the ini, then make sure it is remapped to the correct device. (mouse1, mouse2, etc)
I don't have this enabled. I thought I read in other threads it should not be in this situation.
But I also read about what you are saying (mapping to correct device)... where do you even do this?
« Last Edit: April 02, 2013, 07:22:42 am by Hutt »

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« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2013, 07:50:36 am »
Mame tab-menu. Go to default and set everything up according to the names of the device.

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Re: U-Trak trackball not working in MAME
« Reply #5 on: April 02, 2013, 04:20:24 pm »
Well, its working but I'm not 100% sure why.
I had to make some game specific adjustments in the Marble Madness settings... but that is all I did and now it works in all games???

Anyone know the proper sensitivity settings for Birdie King and Golden Tee?
I think I have MM set properly at 96.

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« Reply #6 on: April 04, 2013, 07:15:46 am »
Well that's up to your preference. Some like spinning the trackball in marble madness because that's how it was in the original game. I prefer it really sensitive. Same goes for golden tee.

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Re: U-Trak trackball not working in MAME
« Reply #7 on: April 07, 2013, 05:19:41 pm »
Well, when I say 'proper' I was just thinking what would make it as close to the original arcade game as possible....

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« Reply #8 on: April 08, 2013, 03:16:44 am »
Never heard of a list that gives you numbers. So it's still about preference or having the possibility to check on the real machines machines (which I have not)

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Re: U-Trak trackball not working in MAME
« Reply #9 on: April 08, 2013, 07:10:13 am »
Here are some guidelines here along with spinner info.

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Re: U-Trak trackball not working in MAME
« Reply #10 on: April 08, 2013, 10:00:31 am »
Where?

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Re: U-Trak trackball not working in MAME
« Reply #11 on: April 08, 2013, 03:15:57 pm »

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Re: U-Trak trackball not working in MAME SERIOUSLY WTF!!!
« Reply #12 on: April 09, 2013, 06:32:25 pm »
Well, I spend the last couple days tinkering with odds and ends on this. Setting up LED blinky and so fourth.
Went to play Centipede and Marble Madness again... NO TRACKBALL!!!

It's not Hyperspin or LED Blinky in any way because if I just run MAME it still doesn't work.
It doesn't even recognize the spinner in trackball games... at least before the spinner would move the marble left and right in Marble Madness. What could be causing this?

What is really confusing me I can play Tempest just fine with the spinner or the trackball.
Its frustrating when simple things that shouldn't be an issue give you problems....

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« Reply #13 on: April 09, 2013, 06:40:06 pm »
Look at the default settings to see if the trackball is still defined right. Mame is very sensitive with unplugging USB inputs and resets all default settings. If that's the case, set everything up and set default.cfg to read only.

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Re: AW: U-Trak trackball not working in MAME
« Reply #14 on: April 09, 2013, 06:48:01 pm »
Look at the default settings to see if the trackball is still defined right. Mame is very sensitive with unplugging USB inputs and resets all default settings. If that's the case, set everything up and set default.cfg to read only.

Actually I did do that and trackball was set to keyboard again for some reason. Perhaps what you said.
I changed it back to mouse but still didn't help.
It HAS to be something simple.
Can someone here using a trackball post their .cfg file?

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Re: U-Trak trackball not working in MAME
« Reply #15 on: April 09, 2013, 08:43:38 pm »
Once again playing around... its running but not really sure why.
This time as soon as I exited MAME I copied the ini file so if it happens again I should be able to see why.

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Re: U-Trak trackball not working in MAME
« Reply #16 on: May 07, 2013, 08:10:03 pm »
Just an update to this in case it might help someone in the future.
I've been up and running since the last post no problems.
My brother just finished his (identical) cabinet and was having the same trackball issue.

Same thing... did everything right with the mame.ini file with no luck.
He discovered that there was another.

Besides the mame.ini file in the mame root folder.
There is an ini folder inside the mame folder that includes another file called mame.ini

After making the changes in this file the trackball worked fine.

Maybe this one is the only one that needs changed.... The ini file in the mame folder is not there by default and has to be generated in dos.
But if this other one exists then why would the one in the root folded ever need to be made?

Everything is working fine but just a little confused about why and how this is set up.