Happs 1.5" trackball?

[d8thstar]

hi all, i'm thinking of getting the 1.5" trackball at Happs due to space limitations.

http://www.happcontrols.com/trackballs/56020000.htm

also, if i get this small one, i could add two trackballs into my panel but that being the case, how many games actually use two TBs for P1 and P 2?

I could jump up to the 2.25 TB:

http://www.happcontrols.com/trackballs/565500xx.htm

but I'd have to reconfig buttom layous and what not as where i would like to put it, i'd be about half an inch off.

So, any experience using the 1.5" TB and will it interface with an optipac?

Thanks veryone, great board here

[BobA]

The 1.5 inch trackball you are looking at has a USB interface already built in.  Regular trackballs do not thus they use the optipac to interface to the PC.   Since the 1.5 already has USB it will not need an optipac it will however give you problems if you want to use more than one.  See prior threads re 2 trackballs.

BobA

[Lilwolf]

btw, benson/imperial 2 1/4 are very very cheap compared to happs.  last I looked you could get 2 2 1/4's for less then on 3" happs.

I wouldn't go smaller then 2 1/4 or you you will probably be able to feel the difference (feeling like a PC trackball instead of an arcade)

btw, if you go 2 1/4, you can later swap the ball out with a pool ball.  I think it's cool anyway.

[SirPoonga]

Get a ruler, look at how big 1.5" is.  Would you really be happy playing arcade games with that?  That trackball is not meant for arcade systems.

[NIVO]

personally i could only picture those 1.5" as a "possible" idea onto cocktail cab panels where space would be a premium but functionality would be welcomed. Again, just my opinion, your mileage may vary.

[Darkstalker]

Get a ruler, look at how big 1.5" is.  Would you really be happy playing arcade games with that?  That trackball is not meant for arcade systems.

Yea, I'd have to agree...You'd have a helluva time playing Missle Command with a 1.5" trackball.  

I'd say a trackball this size would best be used for OS/Front end navigation, and not much else.

But to answer your other question, I can't think of any 2 player games that had a trackball where both players actually play simultaniously...

[SirPoonga]

But to answer your other question, I can't think of any 2 player games that had a trackball where both players actually play simultaniously...

Oh, that's easy.  Marble madness, rampart, atari football, atari soccer.

[Tiger-Heli]

But to answer your other question, I can't think of any 2 player games that had a trackball where both players actually play simultaniously...

Oh, that's easy.  Marble madness, rampart, atari football, atari soccer.

CABAL also

[rampy]

Not that I don't think a 1.5" trackball wouldn't suck for games... (it might, it might not...) but when I was at Borders the other day, they have the assanine counterintuitive, barely helpful "Title Sleuths" kiosks with a keyboard and a tiny trackball... and that sucker spun very well FWIW.  Of course for some games it's not the spin, so much as the real estate travel for manuvering...

*shrug* it won't feel the same, but maybe with appropriate settings the playability won't be horrible.  sounds like you'll be the guinea pig if you go forward with it -- let us know how it works out.

rampy