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Lomar:

Through much help of these forums and many more hours (and dollars) than I anticipated - my Arcade is almost finished.

However, I cannot get my Happ trackball to work.  I'm using the Mini-Pac with the Happ harness and I've plugged the harness into the trackball with the two molex type connectors.  I've plugged them in every way I can find.

Trackball does nothing.  I changed the .ini files for the mouse=yes stuff .... nada.  Zippo.  Zero.  Zilch.

I cannot find directions ANYWHERE on how to connect this damn trackball.  I've had a post on Ultimarc's site for days with no luck, so I'm guessing either I'm so dumb that people don't want to embarass me with the answer or nobody knows how to do this!

Please ... PLEASE ... WHAT am I missing?!  Am I supposed to be cutting/splicing wires?  Is the trackball broken?


Thank you in advance!


P.S. My wiring is ... terrible  ;D  Are the wires from a Cat5 ethernet cable the same gauge as the standard Mini-Pac wires?  Meaning, can I use those to splice and extend my wiring to make it look good?

ahofle:

Cat5 cables should be fine (I haven't had any problems at least). 

I assume you have the trackball grounded and all wires going to the mini-pac?  Did you double check against this diagram? http://www.ultimarc.com/mp_inst.html 

Can you move the cursor in windows with the trackball?  Or is it just not working in MAME?

Lomar:

I get nothing from the trackball in windows or otherwise.

I do have the trackball grounded and it is wired according to the Ultimarc diagram.  I even switched them ... a few times.

ahofle:

Does the minipac even show up as a USB device in Windows?  You may want to try emailing Andy from ultimarc if not.

Lomar:

Oh yea...all my joysticks and buttons work.



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