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Author Topic: usb tracball wire harness for buttons work with mame ?  (Read 1040 times)

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usb tracball wire harness for buttons work with mame ?
« on: December 30, 2006, 04:41:46 pm »
I'm wondering about the 3 push button support. I wonder if that would somehow interfere with Mame or if they would work together.

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Re: usb tracball wire harness for buttons work with mame ?
« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2006, 04:43:32 pm »
They work as mouse buttons

I don't use mine.

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Re: usb tracball wire harness for buttons work with mame ?
« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2006, 08:11:09 pm »
I have this one (just bought it) and my question was can you use the button connections as fire buttons as well?  I planned on hooking the buttons up to the right and left of my trackball so it could be used as a mouse if necessary but I also want to be able to use those same buttons for fire buttons in Trackball games such as Centipede.
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Re: usb tracball wire harness for buttons work with mame ?
« Reply #3 on: December 31, 2006, 12:29:45 am »
In mame any button can be anything, joystick, mouse, or keyboard. I remapped the mouse buttons for use in Mame for trackball games and it works perfectly fine.  I also run a fair amount of pc games on my cab and those mouse buttons are invaluable. 
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