Never mind. I got the Spinner working. It seems that they key was to delete everything within my mame/cfg folder. Once I did that, the spinner just started working.
Wow! Tempest is amazing!
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Hmmm... I'm sure that I'm doing something wrong, but I've tried everything I can think of to get the Spinner working in games like Tempest with my new SlikStik Classic. The joysticks work in Tempest, but the Spinner and/or Trackball do nothing.
The spinner is plugged in via USB and it will move the mouse right and left smoothly in Windows XP.
My mame.ini file has the following entries:
### Input device options ###
mouse 1
joystick 0
lightgun 0
dual_lightgun 0
offscreen_reload 0
steadykey 0
keyboard_leds 1
led_mode ps/2
a2d_deadzone 0.300000
ctrlr slikstik
paddle_device keyboard
adstick_device keyboard
pedal_device keyboard
dial_device mouse
trackball_device keyboard
lightgun_device keyboard
digital none
For "dial_device" and "paddle_device" I've tried "keyboard, mouse, slikstik" all as options and nothing works.
Any ideas?