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Mamushka:
I have a cocktail MAME that I built to mainly play 80’s games. It has a 8 and 4 way joystick, 3 buttons and trackball on each side. My problem is that I can not get both trackballs to work.

About the machine: The computer is running Vista, I have both a I-PAC and a Opti-PAC, the trackballs are Happ. The MAME version is MameUI that allows multiple mice (enabled). The Opti-PAC is hooked to the computer with a serial to USB cable. No mouse is hooked to the computer, just the trackball(s).

The symptoms:  When the Opti-PAC is jumpered to P1 both trackballs control the mouse cursor or MAME game, for example: both trackballs can control the “guy” on Centipede at any time. It does not mater if you are playing a 1 or 2 player game, move either trackball at any time and you have control of the game
When the Opti-PAC is jumpered to P1+2 only the primary (player 1) trackball will work for player 1. If you are running a 2 player game you cannot move the guy with either trackball.
Checking the device manager I see that I have 2 functional HID Mouse devices when I am jumpered to P1 or P1+2

I hope I am right in thinking that I should be able to independently control player 1 with one trackball and player 2 with the other. Andy from Ultimarc is doing his best to help me right now but I figured the more people looking at this the better.

Thanks for any info,
John
Avrus:
I believe it's the same problem I had.

Mame.ini
#
# CORE INPUT OPTIONS
#
multimouse                1
Mamushka:

--- Quote from: Avrus on July 23, 2008, 07:51:53 pm ---I believe it's the same problem I had.

Mame.ini
#
# CORE INPUT OPTIONS
#
multimouse                1

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Thanks for the input but multimouse = 1 in my .ini file  :(
Avrus:
What version of MameUI are you running?

Edit: and have you set the device configuration to be P1 trackball x / y P2 trackball x / y so it's mapped to independant devices?
Mamushka:

--- Quote from: Avrus on July 23, 2008, 08:07:53 pm ---What version of MameUI are you running?

Edit: and have you set the device configuration to be P1 trackball x / y P2 trackball x / y so it's mapped to independant devices?

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0.126U1 July 17 2008

As far as inputs;
Player 1 shows - Track X and Y analog = mouse 1X and mouse 1Y
Player 2 shows - Track 2X and 2Y analog = mouse 2X and mouse 2Y
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