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Spinner question
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: juggle50 on May 01, 2007, 11:59:09 am ---I am curious about this too. One advantage to hooking a spinner up to the mini-pac is if you have two optical devices (spinner and trackball) the mini-pac will disengage one optical device if you are using the other one. For example, if your playing tempest and are using the spinner, the trackball goes dead so you can hit it accidently and it won't disturb the game.
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But recent versions of MAME map all mice independently, so if Tempest is mapped to the spinner (Mouse 2 X), moving the trackball (Mouse 1) will not have any effect regardless of interface.
ahofle:
--- Quote from: WLVRYN on May 01, 2007, 12:22:17 pm ---My only problem is that sometimes I use the trackball to select games, so when I try to play arkanoid or tempest, I have to wait a few seconds to start using the spinner (not really a problem though).
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FYI, you can move a jumper around on the optipac to get rid of this delay. I didn't like it either. What would happen to me is in the middle of a game, between levels or something, I'd accidentally bump the trackball. Then the level would start and my spinner wouldn't move and I'd lose a man. If you're interested, I can look at my optipac when I get home and let you know which jumper (I can't remember).
scotthh:
Are you using the harness on Minipac?
No Minipac harness:
1. The black Molex connectors on the TT2 fit on the pins that are on the bottom right of the OptiWiz. These pins look like like the same pins on the Minipac. If they are the same, you just need to connect the black Molex connectors from the TT2 wire onto the Minipac.
2.If they don't fit, you'd need to either get new disconnects or solder the wires onto the Minipac
You are using the Minipac harness:
1.The white mini connector on the harness look a little bigger than the mini white connector on the TT2. If they are the same you could just plug the Minipac harness into the TT2. I'd double check the wiring diagrams before trying this.
2.You could definitely splice the wires together. This wouldn't be difficult.
juggle50:
Thanks Tiger-Heli, I'm uprgrading mame from an older version in the next couple weeks. I was unaware that MAME now mapped all optical devices independantly and therefore I was dependant on the minipac to do the job for me. I'll look into that, thank you.
ideft:
so if MAME maps mice indepently then the switching between 2 devices ie.trackball and spinner is not really a problem??(this was one of my main concerns from the start) Also, the optic board that comes with the turbotwist 2, can you hook up a trackball to it?? on the x and y axis.(sorry a bit off topic)