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u_rebelscum:

Andy makes both the U-HID and the U-Trak.  You can purchase the u-hid nano @ ultimarc's store.

The easiest IMO would be getting an u-hid nano.  It's the same physically as the boards that come with the u-trak, so you just replace that one part; you get to reuse the harness and everything else.

The optiwiz is nearly as easy, and cheaper, but you'll probably want to get the harness too, making the prices almost the same (but the optipac still cheaper).

If you want buttons on both TBs, the optipac might be the best option.  You only need one of them, unlike two optiwizes or two nanos.

TOK:

As much as I love Ultimarcs products, the Happ trackball is available with a 3 button mouse harness. It all works off 1 USB cable and is identified as a mouse by Windows.

I made the trackball buttons the bottom row of my Player 1 layout and just remapped MAME to use them instead of the defaults.

mark6437:

Yea on my cab I have 2 Happ trackballs with the mouse buttons, very useful. But on the cab I am building now I didnt do enough research and I bought two U-Traks without realizing they didnt have mouse buttons, I just assumed they did. With that being said I like how the U-Trak spins WAY more than the Happ TB.

Hey u_rebelscum (cool name by the way) I may beconfused by what you are telling me. I wanted to clarify. You said The easiest thing to do would be to get the u-hid nano. I went to that page and looked at the pic and that is exactly what I hav now attached to the U-Trak. At least the pictures match. Am I cornfused?  :dizzy:

Thx
Mark


u_rebelscum:


--- Quote from: mark6437 on October 30, 2009, 09:25:53 am ---I went to that page and looked at the pic and that is exactly what I hav now attached to the U-Trak. At least the pictures match. Am I cornfused?  :dizzy:

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It's like binning CPUs and GPUs: physically the i7 920 (2.66 ghz) is the same as the i7 960 (3.2 ghz), but the i7 950 passed tests that it runs at the faster speeds, and then some connections were made/broken to set the frequencies.  (In fact, a 920 chip might have passed the same tests as the one labeled 960, but they needed more 920s, so it was down binned for selling reasons.)

Anyway, the boards you have are binned down u-hid nanos.  Yours have buttons disabled, while the nanos button work.  Yours are not reprogrammable, while the nanos are.  The only difference is due to was is written in the firmware.

One thing I didn't think of yesterday, about reusing the harness.  If the harness that came with the u-trak only has 5-6 wires instead of 9 in the nano harness, you'll have to get another harness.

edge10:


--- Quote from: TOK on October 29, 2009, 07:03:20 pm ---As much as I love Ultimarcs products, the Happ trackball is available with a 3 button mouse harness. It all works off 1 USB cable and is identified as a mouse by Windows.

I made the trackball buttons the bottom row of my Player 1 layout and just remapped MAME to use them instead of the defaults.

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Is this the one you are talking about?

http://www.happ.com/trackballs/56011300k.htm

Then when you remap them in MAME, you can use them for any other button you wish?

Thanks in advance.

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