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mr_doles:
Thanks, I love the u360, it plays all my emulators perfectly.
I have the u360 for 6 buttons + P1/2 start on each side. Pause and Exit are shifted to avoid accidents. The "mouse" buttons will be coin 1/2. I have yet to hit Tab for any reason, though I may rethink that now that I can.
Right now I use the Ultrastick mapper for the joystick and the .cfg in the ctlr folder for button mapping. So with the OptiWiz I would do it in the .cfg and with the U-Hid I could use the U-config software to program it.
Six of one, half dozen of the other.
taylormadelv:
I seem to like products that are not popular here for some reason but mikesarcade has a nice, cheap trackball adaptor
http://mikesarcade.com/cgi-bin/store.pl?sku=AGSTBINTUSB
has USB or PS2 option and gives three mouse buttons.
Of couse, if you need more than one trackball or a spinner + trackball, go with the optipac.
mr_doles:
--- Quote from: taylormadelv on September 19, 2009, 01:44:57 pm ---I seem to like products that are not popular here for some reason but mikesarcade has a nice, cheap trackball adaptor http://mikesarcade.com/cgi-bin/store.pl?sku=AGSTBINTUSB
has USB or PS2 option and gives three mouse buttons.
Of couse, if you need more than one trackball or a spinner + trackball, go with the optipac.
--- End quote ---
Just got back from vacation at the beginning on the week and missed this reply. That looks like it will do what I want it to do and has all the connectors with it. Can't beat that price either. After shipping the optipac is ~$47.00 with the cables vs ~$25.00.
Anyone else use this? Why is this not very popular? I am always nervous because you get what you pay for.
mr_doles:
*bump*
Anyone else have any thoughts on the Mikesarcade adaptor? Nervous to order based on one persons option...no offence taylormadelv.
severdhed:
i'm using two u360s in my cabinet, along with a optiwiz from GGG for my Utrak trackball. in mame, you should be able to assign coin inputs to mouse buttons if that's what you want to do. what i did was wire my coin switches to inputs on my u360s, since i had a 2 player 6 button panel, that left 2 inputs on each u360..one for coin and one for start. i wired up player 1 buttons 5 and 6 as mouse buttons on the optiwiz. that opened up two inputs on my p1 u360 to use as Pause and Exit.
i chose to go with the optiwiz because it was cost effective. i am very pleased with it's performance.