Trackball issues

[Marky_1979]

I can get my trackball working in windows if a little slow (im thinking of taking it apart and putting it back together again  to see if it will run a little smoother seems a bit stiff at mo)

But my main prblem is it will not work on mame can anyone help i know there is an option on the menu i have looked but dont know what i have to do and after playing a bit with it nothing seems to change.

Can anyone offer assistance please? 

[stevejt]

If the trackball is slow, it most likely just needs the insides, (mostly the bearings) cleaned.  There is a setting in mame that must be checked off to allow trackball, or mouse input.  I beleive it is in default game options.

Steve

[Goz]

If using command line MAME it is in the MAME.INI file just look for trackball and change the value to 1 from 0 if my memmory serves me correctly on the values.

Hope this helps

-Goz

[Marky_1979]

is it the menu within the game like when you press tab or is it part of the mame program? i use mamewah.

[ras2a]

In 'mame.ini': set mouse to '1', e.g:

### Input device options ###
mouse                   1

[Marky_1979]

Thanks guys i'll have a look tonight 

[pointdablame]

If you don't find a "mame.ini" file in your mame directory (not mamewah) then use the windows command line, naviagte to your mame folder, and run "mame -cc"  that will create the mame.ini file that you need.

open up mame.ini with any text editor.  Change mouse 0 to mouse 1 as was mentioned. 

Save, and you should be good to go.

[Marky_1979]

Hi guys changed the setting to 1 and the trackball now works but only on the games selection screen not in the actual games themself iv taken two pics of the options screens can you see any problems???

[Marky_1979]

I cant figure out how to get it working  why does it work with everything but the games 

[darkmavis]

if you look at pic one, you need to change the input for 
track x dec     
track x inc 
track y inc
track y dec

at the mo there set to up arrow
don arrow
left and right

just config em to the trackball ar ur good to go

just check the axis though

i think x in  horizontal and y is vertical, i think

[Marky_1979]

what should i change them too? sorry if that sounds really dumb but a bit confused??? do i just select it and when it asks what i want it to be move the trackball?

[darkmavis]

yea thats it  select it, then give it a spin should work a treat

[Marky_1979]

your a star cant thanks you enough mate will try that first thing when i get home 

[Oddfeld]

Actually, they're not set to up and down arrow at the moment - that's what the digital controls are mapped to, which are just extra keymappings so you can use keys/buttons to play the game (badly) if you have no analog controls configured. The trackball settings you need to fix are actually called 'Track X Analog' and 'Track Y Analog' in that pic and should be mapped to the mouse axes.

If you do need to configure them manually, select Track X Analog, hit enter, spin the trackball left to right, and that should be it (similarly for the Y axis).

But, you shouldn't really have to go through and configure each game this way on a case by case basis - if mouse input is enabled, then the default setting is for analog X axis and analog Y axis to map to mouse X and Y anyway. The fact that it isn't like that on centipede (or whatever's shown above) probably means you've gone in and dicked about with the configuration for that game before you enabled mouse input, so now you have a saved config file for centipede that isn't set up to include the mouse - go and delete all your configuration files and they should all revert back to the defaults.

You'll probably have to adjust the sensitivity of those axes to play the game properly, which is more of a laborious game-by-game process since different games used different sized trackballs with different optics etc, no one setting is going to give the right feel for everything.

[Marky_1979]

so im best to delete my config file? if i do this how do i create a new one

[Oddfeld]

I don't have MAME in front of me at the moment - IIRC, there's a CFG folder with a configuration file for each game you've changed the settings for. If you just delete everything in that folder, they'll use default settings (based on whether you've enabled things like mouse input in mame.ini, what you've set up as global defaults from the tab menu etc)

A new config file for Centipede (or whatever) will be created when you go and configure specific options from within that particular game.

[u_rebelscum]

Hi guys changed the setting to 1 and the trackball now works but only on the games selection screen not in the actual games themself iv taken two pics of the options screens can you see any problems???

The track # analog say "n/a".  That means mame does not see any mice, or they are still disabled, or mice were unmapped from the trackball. 

I bet it's one of the first two.

[Marky_1979]

Got it working now i just have to sort out each game world bowling just seems wrong at mo but im just so happy iv got it working. Couldn't have done it without all you help so many thanks