Trackballs

[ponyboy32]

Is there such thing as a USB/PS2 type arcade trackball? If so do these work well with MAME?

[cholin]

There are many trackballs that have USB or PS2 connections already on them, and I believe Happs sells them.  I cant tell you how they work though because I dont have one, but Im guessing they work just like any other trackball because thats how theyre usually connected anyways.

[Doc-]

You can "mouse hack" any USB mouse into a standard trackball.  Just do a search on the forum for "mouse hack" and then buy a USB mouse to hack.

Doc-

[Lilwolf]

I wouldn't hack a mouse myself. 

why?

Oscar sells one for 10 bucks.  Real clean and works great. 

And when I tried to hack one... it took 3... and I never got one really working.   But my soldering sucks.

[quarterback]

I wouldn't hack a mouse myself.

[SirPoonga]

I've got a q' about the Oscar Mouse hack.  Are there one or 2 things you have to buy?  He's got the "USB mouse interface" which has a spinner harness and then also the "Happ trackball harness" which says "This harness will connect a Happ trackball to the Oscar Controls USB mouse interface."   If you need both then it's more likt $17+ shipping. 

The happ tball harness is the cord that an arcade machine uses.  It's just a cord that comes from each of the two IR boards and ends in a 6 pin molex.

http://www.happcontrols.com/trackballs/560100xx.htm
"Standard AMOA harness included"

http://www.oscarcontrols.com/images/happ_harness.jpg
That's what it is. 

I believe that's what oscarcontrols is talking about.  I haven't been on oscarcontrols for sometime though.

[quarterback]

http://www.oscarcontrols.com/images/happ_harness.jpg
That's what it is.