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New Product: Opti-Wiz
sWampy:
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--- Quote from: sWampy on February 25, 2006, 11:24:12 pm ---I got one of these this week cause my mini-pac had horrible back spin problems with my betson trackball. With this, and the upgraded encoder wheels it's seems to the be best trackball setup i've ever seen for mame.
My oscar spinner has a small backspin problem with the mini-pac. I guess hooking it up to the z-axis would solve this, but I'm just a little worried about the z-axis spinner support in other applications. Anyone have an opinion on if the benefits of hooking it up to the opti-wiz would outweigh the negatives.
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Those upgraded encoder wheels are probably making most of the difference on your trackball. It sure would be interesting to move your spinner from the MiniPac to the OptiWiz and see if/how performance differs between them. You would want to hook it to the same axis on both to make it a fair test.
As for using the Z-axis, I don't know that that would improve backspin issues over using the X or Y axis. The difference between the axes is build into the way Windows handles the data, not the OptiWiz. The main reason to use the Z-axis is to separate the spinner from the trackball, not to improve performance.
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With just the new encoders, the backspin was just as bad as the stock encoders, so I really think the new interface made made a huge difference there.
I really just can't deside if having no backspin on the spinner would be worth the hastle of having to reconfigure all spinner games to use the z-axis and it's scale, and not being able to use the spinner in non-mame games. I guess I could put a switch to switch between the 2 interfaces. I'd move it in a heart beat if there was an easy way in software to move it between x and z on the fly. Then I could just have my frontend move it to x axis when launching a non mame emulator.
markrvp:
Until this is a standard feature in MAME, I would just use two OptiWiz's. I know that's $15 more dollars, but it would sure save a lot of configuring.