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Where to buy mini trackballs?
Vigo:
I assume it would wire like any other arcade trackball without an encoder. It would either need to be hacked to a ball mouse, or connected to something like an opti wiz from ggg.
Oh, and I realized that the one I have is the radica golden tee, not the Jakks. But i think they are pretty much the same thing.
http://www.amazon.com/Radica-I6001-PlayTV-Golden-Golf/dp/B000EYF7YQ
172pilot:
I got one of these on Ebay, and it looks to be awesome, but after wiring it up, both my MAC and my WIndows 8 laptop show it as a HID Input Device, but wont move the mouse pointer... Mine is the "USB / PS2 Autosensing" version. Is that what you used? Does it work as a mouse, or is Mame going to see it as a trackball even though it's not being seen as a mouse?
Or, is it likely that even though USB seems to be working, my trackball is DoA?
Thanks,
Steve
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I've used a traxsys 38mm trackballs an a few smaller projects and they're awesome
I got em on ebay when they came up for $25-35
let us know if you find a source I wouldn't mind a couple more
http://www.traxsys.com/OEMTechnology/PanelMountedTrackBalls/38mmPanelMountedTrackBalls/38mmPlasticBodyTrackBall/tabid/1351/Default.aspx
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Slippyblade:
I found a video a week or so ago on YouTube where a lady mouse hacked the Amazon Golden Tee trackball into MAME. Seemed to be pretty straight-forward. When I get home from work I'll dig up the vid again and post the link.
JDFan:
--- Quote from: Slippyblade on December 23, 2013, 06:58:22 pm ---I found a video a week or so ago on YouTube where a lady mouse hacked the Amazon Golden Tee trackball into MAME. Seemed to be pretty straight-forward. When I get home from work I'll dig up the vid again and post the link.
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Watched it just the other day so I still have the Link :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=VC7jhdAMwiw#t=66