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Thurman:
What's the best way to disable the actual joystick but still use the joystick buttons on Mame trackball games?  The reason I'm asking is because when my joystick is enabled for trackball games, it causes all kinds of problems.  I'd like to disable the joystick but I still want to use its buttons.  What's the best way to do this?
Ginsu Victim:

--- Quote ---it causes all kinds of problems
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Care to elaborate? There's a deeper problem here. You shouldn't have to disable your joystick.

How are your joystick, trackball, and buttons interfacing with your PC?
Paul Olson:
In MAME, hit tab to open the menu to change the control inputs. Scroll down to the Track section. You will see Track X DEC and Track X INC. Delete whatever is in these by selecting them and hitting ESC. Do the same for Track Y. These are used to simulate a trackball if you don't have one, but they really get in the way if you do. If you have the correct controllers for different games (optical or analog) get rid of the DEC and INC for any type of control in the input menu.

The reverse is also true. Say you don't have a 270 analog wheel; assign these settings to a joystick or buttons and go play outrun or something. It is far from perfect, but it is good enough to get into the game well enough to see if there are any slowdowns or glitches.

I hope that made sense, I just woke up.  :D
Thurman:

--- Quote from: GinsuVictim on August 13, 2008, 10:19:14 am ---
--- Quote ---it causes all kinds of problems
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Care to elaborate? There's a deeper problem here. You shouldn't have to disable your joystick.

How are your joystick, trackball, and buttons interfacing with your PC?

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As soon as I launch Centipede, my bug blaster immediately pulls hard left and up.  I use the trackball to pull him back into place and it again pulls him left and up.  When I launch Shuuz and try to select 2 player with my trackball, the cursor keeps pulling up to the 1 player.  If I open Mame.ini and set Joystick = 0, the problem is fixed but I can't use the joystick buttons.

I'm using a GP-Wiz49 as my joystick.  The problems happen even when I plug in a regular mouse.
ahofle:

--- Quote from: pcolson on August 13, 2008, 10:38:56 am ---In MAME, hit tab to open the menu to change the control inputs. Scroll down to the Track section. You will see Track X DEC and Track X INC. Delete whatever is in these by selecting them and hitting ESC. Do the same for Track Y. These are used to simulate a trackball if you don't have one, but they really get in the way if you do. If you have the correct controllers for different games (optical or analog) get rid of the DEC and INC for any type of control in the input menu.

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Also make sure only the trackball (mouse) is selected under the "track X analog" and "track Y analog".  In other words you should not see joystick under either of those.
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