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drunkatuw:

A while back, people we're discussing how they were having problems with their trackballs in games such as golden tee where you really spin the trackball hard.  Suggestions to fix this included changing the mouses sampling rate and turning off mouse acceleration.  One thing I noticed is that you cannot change the sampling rate of a USB trackball, it's stuck at 125.  Unless there is a registry hack or something to adjust this, it seems to me that a PS/2 option would be better.

After reading a thread today about 4 player games, I came across games I've never played such as shuuz and shuffleshot.  Unfortunately, with shuffleshot, I can't even get the "puck" all the way across the board.  I've got my y axis speed up to 85 in mame!

So I'm wondering for those people that are pleased with their trackball, do you have it hooked up via USB or PS/2?

Right now I have a Minipac, so mine is hooked up via USB and I'm not happy at all with my trackball.

Just thought I'd take a poll before I spend the $8 for a PS/2 mouse hack from oscar (once he opens back up)

Thanks!

drunkatuw:

I guess I'm the only one not happy with their trackball.  Maybe I'll try hacking a mouse and see where that takes me.

RandyT:


--- Quote from: drunkatuw on March 18, 2004, 06:51:17 pm ---I guess I'm the only one not happy with their trackball.  Maybe I'll try hacking a mouse and see where that takes me.

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I don't know which trackball you are using, but if it's an Imperial/Betson

AND

You don't have a "backspin" problem

AND

in Windows it takes a lot of spins just to get the cursor across the screen

then these might just be what you need.



RandyT

drunkatuw:

I've never seen those before Randy, but unfortunately, I have a Happs Golden Tee trackball, and I do have the backspin problem, and the trackball works fine in windows.

Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think it will help me.


RandyT:


--- Quote from: drunkatuw on March 18, 2004, 09:17:15 pm ---I've never seen those before Randy, but unfortunately, I have a Happs Golden Tee trackball, and I do have the backspin problem, and the trackball works fine in windows.

Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think it will help me.


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Not a good sign.  The backspin likely indicates that whatever is counting pulses, might not be doing it fast enough for the number of apertures on the encoder wheels.

That mouse hack might just be the solution if there are already a small number of apertures in your encoder wheels.  If not, you might be able to swap them for the low-res plastic ones that Betson sells.

Good Luck,
RandyT

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