Mapping Mouse 1 and 2 to buttons (solved)

[Ryglore]

I've been looking everywhere and I can't seem to find info on mapping mouse buttons to MaLa's control schemes. I've got a Happ 3" USB trackball and it comes prewired for mouse buttons. I have them hooked up properly, and they work fine when I navigate the PC, but when I go into MaLa and edit Player 1's control set, I can't get MaLa to recognize my inputs.

It will accept button presses of the keyboard, but not the clicks of the mouse. It seems like a couple of arrows pop up like I can scroll through options, but any button I press on the KB just inputs that key as the input. I know there is a way to set mouse buttons as inputs, since they are preset as another button in the menu already... Obviously I am missing something. Any help or pointing me in the right direction will be extremely helpful. Thanks.

[Ryglore]

Solved this last night. The problem seemed to be two separate issues combined. The first being a problem with the mame.ini file, which had the entry for the mouse set to 0 and it should be set to 1.

The second, seemed to be an issue with the connection of the trackball to the PC. Originally I had it connected to the USB port and it would work on the PC and MaLa but not in Mame. After I switched the connection to the PS/2 port, I was able to set the buttons and use the trackball in all of my trackball games.

Took me a couple hours of hair pulling, but it was really a simple fix! 

[JustMichael]

The second, seemed to be an issue with the connection of the trackball to the PC. Originally I had it connected to the USB port and it would work on the PC and MaLa but not in Mame. After I switched the connection to the PS/2 port, I was able to set the buttons and use the trackball in all of my trackball games.

Very strange.  I am able to use my USB trackball in Mame just fine.

[Ryglore]

Ya, I'm not sure what the deal was. I even had problems with my standard USB mouse mapping buttons.