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| independentthread:
I'm still a newbie to the arcade parts world. I saw a picture of a guy using an 8 ball in his trackball assembly. Anybody know how big of a trackball I would need in order to do this? As far as I know, the standard size of a set of pool balls is 2 1/4" and therefore should fit a 2 1/4" trackball, unless there is something that I missed and the assembly is measured differently. Along the same lines...anybody have one of the size I need for sale!? If someone has an assembly without a ball I'd be interested in that too. I would be wanting to use a I-Pac with it because I want to add in a makeshift spinner.....once I can get that in the works anyways (waiting on parts). Thanks in advace for any help you guys can give. |
| crashwg:
Hmmm, you say you will be using an OptiPAC with it eh? Have you ordered that yet? If not, you should definitly get a 2 |
| NoOne=NBA=:
You don't need an I-pac for trackballs and spinners. The Opti-pac is used for those, or you can get a USB mouse hack from Oscar, and use the wiring diagram he has for hooking a trackball and spinner to the same mouse hack. |
| Sasquatch!:
crashwg is correct: you need a 2-1/4" trackball. |
| independentthread:
I-Pac, opti-pac...whatever...they both happen to be cards that I don't own... Yah, so when I said the I-pac, I meant the opti-pac...and as far as buy that instead of the mouse hack, I'm getting to the point where I just want to be DONE with this machine, because it's becoming more of a burden than anything. I need to buy new joysticks because the first set I bought suck ass, and I knew I needed to deal with thetrackball issue at some point, but everytime I thought I had something figured out that would work, I lost the bidding on e-Bay (a couple times because I just plain forgot to put in a bid before it ended). But it's nice to know which mouse I actually need if I want to do the 8-ball thing...I was just hoping that one of the moderators might have seen this and had one lying around. Oh well. Looks like I have to spend another hundred bucks and then I should be done with this thing for the most part. Thanks for the input. |
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