Question...

[JamesS]

How do you answer OK on a spinner/trackball panel?

I had just got finished with installing a Serial Mouse, after it completely screwed the OS somehow, finally gotten it all straightened out, I had to start up mame32, because my mamewah had an issue.  And figured, finally some real tempest.  And of course, press ok to continue.

Uh, how do you answer ok with the trackball/spinner page, is their an easy way?

[Stingray]

Good question. I recently finished my TB/ spinner panel, but mine has a switchable stick on it too. The very first time I played with it (Tempest too, great minds) I reached over to the stick to indicate OK, and immediately thought "How would I have done that if I hadn't put a stick on this panel?" I'm interested to hear if there's an easy way to do this other than a dedicated OK button.

-S

[Tiger-Heli]

I'm interested to hear if there's an easy way to do this other than a dedicated OK button.

It needs O followed by K so it would need 2 buttons (or a delay circuit).

Three ways to do it, actually,

Simplest - use NoNameMame https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=91067&package_id=95932 and select
skip_disclaimer         1
skip_gameinfo           1
skip_gamewarnings  1
skip_gameinfo           1

in the noname.ini file (interesting, one of these should be skip_baddumps) if GatesofBill is reading this . . .

Second option - Compile MAME yourself to remove the screens - I had a page up about this but the server seems to be down.

Third option - MAME is actually looking for "O" or "UI Select Left" followed by "K" or "UI Select RIGHT" (which is why the left-right stick trick works), so you could set "UI Select Left" to "Left or 1" and "UI Select Right" to "Right or 2", then press P1 Start followed by P2 Start when the screen comes up.

[JamesS]

Thanks Tiger-Heli.

What I did last night was, hook up my 3 joystick panel and do the ok.  But I was wondering about Missle Command, Centipede, Millipede and Marble madness.  

I will do that tonight when I get home and have to answer ok.

[Tiger-Heli]

Thanks Tiger-Heli.

What I did last night was, hook up my 3 joystick panel and do the ok.  But I was wondering about Missle Command, Centipede, Millipede and Marble madness.  

I will do that tonight when I get home and have to answer ok.

BTW, for "normal" games, you only have to type OK the first time the game is played.  After that, you just have to "Press any key".

I don't think that works for "Game has imperfect colors, though", and the above might not either for that, come to think of it.

[Stingray]

I'm interested to hear if there's an easy way to do this other than a dedicated OK button.

It needs O followed by K so it would need 2 buttons (or a delay circuit).

Seems like you could add a second switch to a button without too much engineering. Maybe a leaf switch that gets bumped just after the microswitch. Just thinking out loud here.

-S

[NoOne=NBA=]

I just mapped the shift functions so that my left flipper button is "O" when shifted, and my right flipper button is "K".

I HAVE flipper buttons, so your mileage may vary with this solution.