MAME 229 Spinner / Mouse Z Issue. **RESOLVED**

[oldskoolcade]

**EDIT/UPDATE**
Turns out the Mame.ini file I had changed the Multimouse setting in, wasn't the one that MAME was reading from.... DUH!!....
As soon as I pointed it to the right INI file, BOOM, it was all working again!

Thanks everyone for your help!!
OSK




Just recently updated my MAME from .205 to .229 and my Spinner is a no go anymore.   I've changed nothing, and I can get it working in .205 no problem. 

-It's an original Turbo Twist with the OptiWiz 1.0 (set to Z-Axis)
-I've changed my input on DIAL to Mouse Z. (it registers it)

But when I go in game, there's no connection.   I've set Multimouse to 1 in the MAME.ini, I've set DIAL to Mouse input...   When I'm in the menu screen (after I hit TAB in Game), when I spin the spinner, the selection box moves as if it's being detected.

Have I missed a step here, or did MAME rejig the code so that Z-Axis (or MOUSE Z) no longer functions in game?

Any help would be most appreciated!
OSK

[PL1]

Sounds a bit like what Gildahl ran into recently.

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,164637.0.html


Scott

[oldskoolcade]

Thanks for the heads up on that one!  I had read thru that thread, but it all sounded like they were having issues on the X/Y axis...  For some reason the Z-Axis just doesn't wanna play nice with the DIAL Analog setting in the .229 build of MAME...   Head scratcher for sure!

[scenarioL113]

Do you have any other software emulation running in the background possibly.  Like Vjoy or x360ce.  I also had some weird issue that had to do with the MAME ini file but I was running MAMEUI and Launchbox/BigBox

[oldskoolcade]

**UPDATE**

Well I had a 'Duh!' moment... Turns out that the Mame.ini  I had generated and changed the Multimouse settings to, wasn't the one that MAME was reading...   As soon as I pointed to the proper one, BOOM, my spinner is working again in all it's Tempest/Arkanoid glory...

Thanks for all the help and for pointing out the other threads!

Cheers!
OSK




Nope - everything is as pure as pure can be.

I've gone in and switched the 'DIAL' to Mouse X and Mouse Y (with my trackball) and it plays fine in game.   As soon as I switch it to MOUSE Z (with my spinner), it won't register in game.

I'm going to guess that at some point they stripped using the Z-Axis for in game control?   It still works fine in .205, so I guess I'll go back to that for now until I can figure out if there's a solution