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X-arcade trackball button questions
u_rebelscum:
AFAIK, the golf cheat is all internal to the USB board, and just forces zeros on the X axis before it's sent over the USB cable. As said, no software at all.
The middle button is a funny thing in windows. Sometimes it needs a special driver, sometimes the three button works with the driver windows automatically gives it. (Remember, "no drivers" means "windows already has a driver that works with this device".) 99% of windows apps don't use the middle button, and most drivers can, and do, change what pressing the middle button sends applications. Mame is one of the few apps that read mice through RawInput, which is "lower" than most driver middle button remaps, so the question is, in mame, can you map the middle button? (What about the other mouse's middle button?) Unless you know the difference between a middle button press in windows and the action a remapped middle button, don't try to compare the TB and the mouse's actions in windows.
If you can't remap middle button in mame, and the golf cheat doesn't work, sounds like either a wiring error, or the TB's USB board isn't working like it should.
u_rebelscum:
--- Quote from: Epyx on November 03, 2008, 06:41:36 pm ---There is a bug that occurs on occasion when you have both your trackball and a regular mouse plugged in. What will happen is that your Mouse loses "focus" on the active window (Your left mouse button won't register) and alt-tab will restore it...until it happens again. Ensure you don't have another mouse plugged in.
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Have anymore info on this? Is it X-arcade TB only, or multiple mice related? I don't remember hearing of this one.
flowon:
This is quite strange. I disconnected my other mouse and tried with only the x-arcade TB plugged. This time I could not get any individual switches to register. I could however use a left click when I pressed two of the switches at the same time. I can't remember which color wires did what. I will try again tonight an update this thread. Does anyone know which color wires are left/right/middle/horizontal disabler?
Thanks
NelsonPJ:
Here's the X-Arcade Trackball wiring info from their website:
http://xgaming.com/support/questions/70/Trackball+Assembly+Installation{47}Instructions
orange=#1
brown=#2
white=#3
blue=horizontal diabler
black=ground
NelsonPJ:
--- Quote from: NelsonPJ on November 06, 2008, 02:31:03 pm ---Here's the X-Arcade Trackball wiring info from their website:
http://xgaming.com/support/questions/70/Trackball+Assembly+Installation{47}Instructions
orange=#1
brown=#2
white=#3
blue=horizontal diabler
black=ground
--- End quote ---
I just checked this on my own X-Arcade Trackball, and found the wiring colors from X-Arcade's website are wrong! Mouse buttons #1 and #3 are switched. My trackball actually uses:
white=#1
brown=#2
orange=#3
blue=horizonal disabler
black=ground