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| u_rebelscum:
OP, be sure to read the last part! Mame/mame32/mameUI have an in-game menu that you get to by pressing tab key (the default). This is what the xarcade instructions are talking about. The three all can directly start a game. Mame/mame32/mameUI all can start without starting a game. This is a "Front End" (aka FE) view. Mame's is very minimal. Mame32/mameUI FE has a drop down menu to do things like change mame's settings. You can do the same things by hand in mame, but the menus in mame32/mameUI mouse-a-ize it. However, there is no way to directly remap inputs as in xarcade's instructions. Mame has a ctrlr file in the ctrlr folder for the Xarcade. Mame32/mameUI doesn't come with it anymore; but you can download the same version mame and use that ctrlr file. If copied into the mame32/mameUI ctrlr folder, it will show in the drop down menu wbassett mentioned. But this has nothing to do with the TB. However, sounds like you are using mgalaxy FE, so you aren't going to the mame32 FE, so you don't have that drop down menu. But since you're using a different FE, just set up the ctrlr file through that FE. There is no such thing as a dos mame for a long time. Official mame is a windows application. Don't confuse window's commandline with dos. Back to the OP first question: --- Quote from: skyblast on September 22, 2008, 10:22:56 pm ---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. --- End quote --- This is a FE issue, and has nothing to do with mame. Set up your FE to use the mouse/TB. If you can use the TB depends on your FE, and I don't know mgalaxy. |
| skyblast:
--- Quote from: u_rebelscum on September 23, 2008, 04:57:49 pm ---OP, be sure to read the last part! Mame/mame32/mameUI have an in-game menu that you get to by pressing tab key (the default). This is what the xarcade instructions are talking about. The three all can directly start a game. Mame/mame32/mameUI all can start without starting a game. This is a "Front End" (aka FE) view. Mame's is very minimal. Mame32/mameUI FE has a drop down menu to do things like change mame's settings. You can do the same things by hand in mame, but the menus in mame32/mameUI mouse-a-ize it. However, there is no way to directly remap inputs as in xarcade's instructions. Mame has a ctrlr file in the ctrlr folder for the Xarcade. Mame32/mameUI doesn't come with it anymore; but you can download the same version mame and use that ctrlr file. If copied into the mame32/mameUI ctrlr folder, it will show in the drop down menu wbassett mentioned. But this has nothing to do with the TB. However, sounds like you are using mgalaxy FE, so you aren't going to the mame32 FE, so you don't have that drop down menu. But since you're using a different FE, just set up the ctrlr file through that FE. There is no such thing as a dos mame for a long time. Official mame is a windows application. Don't confuse window's commandline with dos. Back to the OP first question: --- Quote from: skyblast on September 22, 2008, 10:22:56 pm ---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. --- End quote --- This is a FE issue, and has nothing to do with mame. Set up your FE to use the mouse/TB. If you can use the TB depends on your FE, and I don't know mgalaxy. --- End quote --- So I finally got to use my trackball for the first time in a golf game. Hooray!! u-rebelscum do you have a suggestion for a free FE that will utilize the trackball? I am now using mameUI? Any good FEs for this one? Thanks for all your help |
| u_rebelscum:
--- Quote from: skyblast on September 23, 2008, 06:47:31 pm ---u-rebelscum do you have a suggestion for a free FE that will utilize the trackball? --- End quote --- It's a personal opinion, and don't a have a fav yet. Have you checked the wiki? --- Quote ---I am now using mameUI? Any good FEs for this one? --- End quote --- I don't know. & Well, besides it's its own FE, any FE that works with mame will work with mameUI. |
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