Adjusting "mouse" sensitivity in windows

[Brad Lee]

I say "mouse" cuz I'm actually referring to the rotary1 on my optipac, the horizontal axis of my mouse

In mame it's easy to adjust it for individual games, that's not a problem. I was playing Arkanoid on the NES though, using the spinner, and control was very sluggish.

Should I use the mouse settings in the windows control panel(win98se) or is there a 3rd party utility that speeds things up? Im not at my machine now but I think I have it set at no acceleration, and the speed itself in the middle

[Brad Lee]

Checked my settings

Mouse speed is set to fastest, and there isn't an acceleration option
Still seems kinda chuggy in normal use, ie not mame where I can set the sensitivity

[crashwg]

Last time I checked, the NES wasn't analog.  I think that might be your problem.

[Brad Lee]

It came with its own Vaus controller, along the lines of atari paddles.

I dunno if it was used on any other games though, and I dont even know WHY I was testing it, when the mame version works perfectly well

Nes controllers were digital

I did find a prog called psrate, or ps2rate, that allows you to change the polling rate. Id come across it before but never saw a need for it heh. If it works Ill be sure to find the link and write it up

[Brad Lee]

The ps2rate prog I found seems to work well.. NES arkanoid and some atari paddle games took a bit of a tweak but they ended up great.

When I went into mame however, the analog control settings(from the tab menu in-game) must be overriding what's being set by ps2rate

Still gonna mess around, see about adding it to the .bat files Im launching each emu with, to make sure that it resets the mouse rate before starting