Main Restorations Software Audio/Jukebox/MP3 Everything Else Buy/Sell/Trade
Project Announcements Monitor/Video GroovyMAME Merit/JVL Touchscreen Meet Up Retail Vendors
Driving & Racing Woodworking Software Support Forums Consoles Project Arcade Reviews
Automated Projects Artwork Frontend Support Forums Pinball Forum Discussion Old Boards
Raspberry Pi & Dev Board controls.dat Linux Miscellaneous Arcade Wiki Discussion Old Archives
Lightguns Arcade1Up Try the site in https mode Site News

Unread posts | New Replies | Recent posts | Rules | Chatroom | Wiki | File Repository | RSS | Submit news

« previous next »
Pages: [1]
  
Go Down

Author Topic: Need a little help with a Mouse Hack  (Read 1530 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Aceldamor

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 878
  • Last login:October 25, 2019, 05:10:51 pm
  • You know you hear the music in your head...
Need a little help with a Mouse Hack
« on: June 25, 2004, 02:17:31 pm »
Jerry, Oscar, or anybody else  ;D...could one of you point me in the right direction? I need to know which contacts to solder on the mouse buttons so I can use mouse buttons on my cp....

Any help that can be provided would be awsome...thx
Logged
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a woman!

SirPeale

  • Green Mountain Man
  • Global Moderator
  • Trade Count: (+23)
  • Full Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 12963
  • Last login:August 04, 2023, 09:51:57 am
  • Arcade Repair in New England
    • Arcade Game and Other Coin-Op Projects
Re:Need a little help with a Mouse Hack
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2004, 02:23:57 pm »
Show us a pic of the PCB, that might help.
Logged

Aceldamor

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 878
  • Last login:October 25, 2019, 05:10:51 pm
  • You know you hear the music in your head...
Re:Need a little help with a Mouse Hack
« Reply #2 on: June 25, 2004, 02:32:45 pm »
er....that will have to wait until I get home....just thought there might be a universal situation, similar to microswitches
Logged
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a woman!

SirPeale

  • Green Mountain Man
  • Global Moderator
  • Trade Count: (+23)
  • Full Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 12963
  • Last login:August 04, 2023, 09:51:57 am
  • Arcade Repair in New England
    • Arcade Game and Other Coin-Op Projects
Re:Need a little help with a Mouse Hack
« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2004, 02:59:35 pm »
Well, actually, yah.  A mouse button (at least the ones that I have seen) have both a NO and NC connection.  If one doesn't work, try the other.  And you should be able to see the common ground between them.
Logged

OSCAR

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1770
  • Last login:September 06, 2018, 11:31:53 pm
  • I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem...
    • Oscar Controls
Re:Need a little help with a Mouse Hack
« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2004, 03:17:00 pm »
Here is a pic of the back of one of my older USB mice.  You should be able to identify the ground plane pretty easy as it should be common for all the buttons.




Logged

SirPeale

  • Green Mountain Man
  • Global Moderator
  • Trade Count: (+23)
  • Full Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 12963
  • Last login:August 04, 2023, 09:51:57 am
  • Arcade Repair in New England
    • Arcade Game and Other Coin-Op Projects
Re:Need a little help with a Mouse Hack
« Reply #5 on: June 25, 2004, 03:30:54 pm »
Those are really just anchors?  I never tested it, of course, but I thought there was NO/NC action there.
Logged

OSCAR

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1770
  • Last login:September 06, 2018, 11:31:53 pm
  • I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem...
    • Oscar Controls
Re:Need a little help with a Mouse Hack
« Reply #6 on: June 25, 2004, 03:38:38 pm »
Quote from: Peale on June 25, 2004, 03:30:54 pm
Those are really just anchors?  I never tested it, of course, but I thought there was NO/NC action there.

Some are, some aren't, depends on the make of the switch.  As you can see on the PCB, though, there aren't traces to those locations so obviously you wouldn't want to solder any wires there.  My labels are describing the functions on the PCB, not the mouse buttons themselves.



Logged

Aceldamor

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 878
  • Last login:October 25, 2019, 05:10:51 pm
  • You know you hear the music in your head...
Re:Need a little help with a Mouse Hack
« Reply #7 on: June 25, 2004, 05:25:22 pm »
Cool...I'll take a look at my PCB tonight..

Appreciate the help everyone..

Thanks  ;D
Logged
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a woman!

blue

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 129
  • Last login:September 07, 2006, 12:41:40 pm
  • up,up,down,down,left,right,left,right BABA ...
Re:Need a little help with a Mouse Hack
« Reply #8 on: June 25, 2004, 05:32:01 pm »
Here is a n00b question and do apologize for it.
But the mice you guys use to hack are they ball or optical?
Logged

Aceldamor

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 878
  • Last login:October 25, 2019, 05:10:51 pm
  • You know you hear the music in your head...
Re:Need a little help with a Mouse Hack
« Reply #9 on: June 25, 2004, 05:55:53 pm »
Ball Mice, finding Ball Mice that are USB is proving to be a trick unless your OSCAR..he seems to have them on tap  ;)

I don't think there is a "pretty" way to hack an optical mouse to work well. At least I haven't seen one   ;D
« Last Edit: June 25, 2004, 05:57:58 pm by Aceldamor »
Logged
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a woman!

Minwah

  • Trade Count: (+3)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 7662
  • Last login:January 18, 2019, 05:03:20 am
    • MAMEWAH
Re:Need a little help with a Mouse Hack
« Reply #10 on: June 26, 2004, 10:42:46 am »
Quote from: Aceldamor on June 25, 2004, 05:55:53 pm
Ball Mice, finding Ball Mice that are USB is proving to be a trick unless your OSCAR..he seems to have them on tap  ;)

I don't think there is a "pretty" way to hack an optical mouse to work well. At least I haven't seen one   ;D


I heard that in general ball mice work better for MAME than optical mice anyway, so even if you could hack an optical I wouldn't bother.
Logged
Pages: [1]
  
Go Up
« previous next »