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barranger:

--- Quote from: spystyle on September 09, 2004, 11:41:12 am ---There's always a keyboard or gamepad hack if you need more buttons than the mouse can supply

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True but I figured if I already needed the mouse hack for the track ball and only needed 5 buttons.....
Lilwolf:
quick note.

Oscar sells a prehacked mouse for 9 bucks or so.  I bought 3 mice and killed 2 trying to hack it.... Then bought a few from Oscar... Worth the price by FAR!
Stingray:

--- Quote from: barranger on September 09, 2004, 11:33:09 am ---My real question was should the 4th and 5th buttons be any different to hack than the first three?

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No, they should be exactly the same.

-S
Tahnok:

--- Quote from: Lilwolf on September 09, 2004, 11:53:42 am ---quick note.

Oscar sells a prehacked mouse for 9 bucks or so.  I bought 3 mice and killed 2 trying to hack it.... Then bought a few from Oscar... Worth the price by FAR!

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True, mouse hacks can be a bit tough. But if you have done any prior electronic work on circuit boards they really aren't that hard. I got it first try and ended up not spending anything to get my trackball working (the mouse was just laying around).
jerryjanis:
Last time I checked, the Mame code couldn't handle 5 mouse buttons.

In mame/src/windows/input.c there's a line:

for (button = 0; button < 4; button++)

which is only looking for mouse buttons 0, 1, 2, and 3.  It's quite possible that changing that 4 to a 5 would add the extra button, but I can't be certain about that without testing it.

Also, mouse buttons are a little bit more flaky than keyboard keys in Mame.  For example (last I checked), you can't remap mouse buttons while a game is paused because of the way that the mouse is restricted to a single window.  In addition, they're a little bit more complicated than a keyboard key because they can report "mouse button up" and "mouse button down".  They typically require 3 wires instead of the usual 2.

I guess what I'm getting at is that it not be worth all the extra trouble just to squeeze a few extra buttons into your cabinet.
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