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USB spinner and trackball keep changing IDs
SavannahLion:
Oh wait. Now I'm confused.
You have two spinners and one trackball? I was thinking you have one spinner and one trackball.
Are the spinners ID's swapping around or are the spinner ID's swapping with the trackball?? :dizzy:
OK, forget it, leave me out of this discussion.
squirrellydw:
I believe they are swapping with the trackball. I am going to confirm this tonight.
unclet:
I had the same problem with my driving cabinet which use 6 Dual Strike USB controllers. I just always keep the USB Hub powered on and this seems to work for me.
I wish someone made a USB Hub which would power the USB connections from Left to Right everytime, with a configurable "stall" time between each new USB was initialized (if needed). I guess a lot of people outside of the arcade arena probably could care less about what order USB hardware comes up at all. Come to think of it, it is possible a lot of people in the arcade arena probably could care less as well :P
FunWithFire:
I was having issues with my first build similar to this. I had been using a USB mouse when setting up my cab and whatnot, and after I disconnected the mouse the trackball was assigned a different ID number, so all of my trackball games had to be re-setup. Were you possibly doing something similar?
whammoed:
This is one of the reasons I went with AdvanceMame on Linux. It is designed to order usb devices first by their name then by their system order. I have never had my usb devices swap. Sad to see it is no longer being developed. I would think the MAME developers could do something similar under WindowsXP? Maybe?