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skyblast:

Ok, so I've got the xarcade dual stick with the track and thus far I love it!!  Mapping the buttons was easy but for some reason I am having no luck with the trackball?

The main thing I would like to do besides using it in a game is use the trackball to scroll through my mame list on my frontend.

On the xarcade site I am told to do the following:

MAME™ SETUP

In MAME™ choose the "Options" menu (at the top), and click "Default Game Options" from the drop-down menu.
Select the "Game Controllers" tab.
Click the box next to "Enable Mouse Support" to add a check mark (if it is not already checked).
If you have another mouse/touchpad connected to the PC, you may need to make the X-Arcade™ Trackball the default mouse. The easiest way to do this is to disable the other mouse/touchpad in Device Manager (The X-Arcade™ Trackball shows up as "Samsung" mouse), then reenable it. If you have a USB mouse, you can simply unplug it and plug it back in again. Otherwise you will need to change all of the default mouse buttons and movements to the X-Arcade™ Trackball manually.
All of your MAME™ games will work with that configuration.


Options?  Where do I find the options menu?  I know where you can find the standard configuration/player controls etc. by pushing TAB but "options" menu??  No clue?  It says once in the mame choose the options menu at the top??  As far as I know you can't even use your mouse once in mame so how can you access a drop down menu to configure the trackball?

Oh yeah.  Yes the trackball is working and does act like a mouse when on the standard OS desktop screen with the trackball usb is plugged in.

Anyway I'm sure for you guys this is an easy fix.

Thanks 




wbassett:

What version of MAME are you using?

I have a TankStick and I use MAME32.  Older versions actually have an XArcade config right in the drop down menu.  You can also copy it over to other versions of MAME32 and it works.

I can use mine just like a mouse but it isn't as good as using a mouse.  I probably can tweak some settings though to get it more responsive like my mouse.

skyblast:

I am using 0115b from mgalaxy and its frontend.  Is this a good mame to use.

So you mentioned drop down menu?  Where is this mythical drop down menu that I keep hearing about?  When I load mame there are no drop down menus just the TAB configuration button.

Do I need to use a different version of mame?

Thanks for all of your help

skyblast:

Ok, I guess I'm not finding the options menu because I'm running a dos version of  mame?? 

I guess I need mame32?

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--- Quote from: skyblast on September 23, 2008, 02:17:25 pm ---Ok, I guess I'm not finding the options menu because I'm running a dos version of  mame?? 

I guess I need mame32?

--- End quote ---

Yes or a derivative

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