Mouse and Spinner not working in Mame

[acevedor2]

I had been using Mala with v119.  I recently switched to Hyperspin and v132.

With 132, I am unable to use the mouise and spinner.  It's as if Mame does not see them.  They work on the screen and I can see the cursor move in windows when I move them, so I know the PC is seeing them as mice.

I have both 115 and 132 in different directories and I tried them both in Mala.  With 119, no issues - trackball and spinner work fine.  With 132, neither the trackball or spinner work.  I am sure it has to be a setting or something somewhere.  Any ideas anyone?

Thanks!

[acevedor2]

Got it working.  The mame v132 I was using, I had compioled myself using the hi_score patch.  Somehow, it changed the mame.cfg file and had keyboard as the default for trackball and dial controls.  I changed them back and now it works fine.  Thanks!

[rbarr110]

I had simliar problems but got mouse/trackball to work but my spinner is still not working.  It works in windows but not in mame.  What should I try to edit to get the spinner to work.

[Section_25]

I had simliar problems but got mouse/trackball to work but my spinner is still not working.  It works in windows but not in mame.  What should I try to edit to get the spinner to work.

If both trackball and spinner work in windows then both should work in mame..... ensure you have the mouse control active in whatever game your trying in mame.... if it is then I have no idea 

[Dazz]

I just figured out my problem...  I couldn't get MAME to see my mouse, trackball or U360 Joysticks.

When you create a mame.ini using mame.exe -cc it places the mame.ini in the root directory of MAME.  However, there is a line in the paths section for ini files.  By default this is set to ini.  So, if you are editing the mame.ini in the root directory MAME isn't going to use it since that's not where it is looking.  You need to make sure you copy that file to your ini folder or edit the mame.ini located in the ini folder. 

This has taken me days and a new install of Windows 7 to Vista 64 back to Windows 7 now that I figured my problem wasn't being caused by Windows 7.

[Section_25]

I just figured out my problem...  I couldn't get MAME to see my mouse, trackball or U360 Joysticks.

When you create a mame.ini using mame.exe -cc it places the mame.ini in the root directory of MAME.  However, there is a line in the paths section for ini files.  By default this is set to ini.  So, if you are editing the mame.ini in the root directory MAME isn't going to use it since that's not where it is looking.  You need to make sure you copy that file to your ini folder or edit the mame.ini located in the ini folder. 

This has taken me days and a new install of Windows 7 to Vista 64 back to Windows 7 now that I figured my problem wasn't being caused by Windows 7.

WOW...that sucks!

Glad you got it straight now though