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whynotpizza:


Ah, welcome to the fun of trying to design the perfect arcade and control panel. Take your time and do the research, and then jump right in. :)

In terms of controls, you really should stick with top end. Spend the money and get high quality for sure!

Don't go for the wal-mart brands out there! In the end, it just isn't worth it!

I'd suggest HAPP controls for the buttons, sticks and trackball.
  Sticks - http://www.tornadoterrys.com/surplus.htm
  Flight Stick - http://www.happcontrols.com/joysticks/50997000.htm
  Trackball - http://www.happcontrols.com/trackballs/560100xx.htm
  Buttons - http://www.happcontrols.com/pushbuttons/5896xxl.htm

In terms of spinner, well it goes without saying that Apache Controls is the ultimate. You will not be dissapointed for sure, and Yes it even has push/pull which allows for all sorts of game combinations. And in terms of Arkanoid and Tempest, it rocks! And the spinner tops are top knotch. All custom aluminum and feel great in game play.
  http://www.apachecontrols.com/

Good luck with your project.

  :)

   David


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--- Quote from: spiffykyle on December 14, 2006, 12:53:58 pm ---I've read about problems having both hooked up to the computer as a USB mouse. Can I have both hooked up via USB at the same time and just use the one I want for a given game?
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You can hook both up by USB at the same time and mame can see both mice.  However, mame now treats them like joysticks: each mouse device is read seperately.  So much like if you have a steering wheel and a gamepad hooked up at the same time, you will need to do some remapping so driving games use the wheel and others use the gamepad.

This is easy.  Discover what each device is called; you can temp map in any game with analog inputs and note the numbers.  Once you know the mouse numbers, use "Input (general)" to remap all of player 1's trackball ports to read from your TB device (whatever mouse number it is) and dial ports to read from your spinner.

You might want to save this as a ctrlr file, but this not needed.  But even if you don't ctrlr it, the one remapping will stick for all games, and you'll be able to play like you want.


--- Quote ---My other option is to get the Opti-PAC version of the spinner and get a different trackball and run both through an Opti-PAC. Or can you hack the X-arcade trackball to work with the Opti-PAC? What trackball is preferred (besides the HAPP, I'd have to convince myself its worth the money first)?

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IMO, happ has the best, but followed closely by betson/imperial; I tried an Xarcade TB, though.  However, I wouldn't worry about trying to combine the devices into one mouse since mame can handle the mice devices seperately.

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