Possible to use Kensington Track ball for tempest/centapede in Mame?

[j1345]

I have a nice kensington turbo track ball with a wheel on the outside of the trackball.

is there a way to rig it to mame to play centepede and use the outside spinner to play tempest?

I tried to reconfigure the mame setting to see it but it only sees the up/down function as I roll to trackball but not anything else.
any advice?

[lamprey]

Assume that  turbo track ball acts like a mouse, then it should be possible.

In the mame.ini file you need to adjust a few things. Under the #CORE INPUT AUTOMATIC ENABLE OPTIONS you'll want to change the appropriate items from "keyboard" to "mouse", probably for "paddle_device" and/or "dial_device". Additionally, you'll probably want to change the "multimouse" to 1 in the # CORE INPUT OPTIONS section.

Once you do that, then you can go into the in-game config (TAB) and configure the input for that game.

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#
# CORE INPUT OPTIONS
#
...
multimouse                1
...

#
# CORE INPUT AUTOMATIC ENABLE OPTIONS
#
paddle_device             mouse
adstick_device            mouse
pedal_device              mouse
dial_device               mouse
trackball_device          mouse
lightgun_device           mouse
positional_device         mouse
mouse_device              mouse

[j1345]

Thanks so much!!!  That did the trick...  FINALLY can play Tempest with the scroll wheel and Centipede with my Turbo mouse track ball...  Surprised the other games still worked with my joystick  LOL...Was afriad it was going to mess with my other games.

Everything works great!!