Spinner trouble

[lowrider3121]

Hey all just pickup a cheap spinner but can't get it to work in my games I'm running Mamewah as a front end spinner works in windows and in Mamewah just not in the game any ideals tried the tab input game but the game input does not see it. The spinner is a EZMount Arcade Spinner.

[ahofle]

Make sure you enable mouse in MAME:
http://mamedev.org/devwiki/index.php/FAQ:Controls#Why_doesn.27t_my_mouse_or_trackball_work.3F

[lowrider3121]

I'm running MAME 0.136 Windows command-line binaries can't find the folder to change the 0 to a 1

[Hoopz]

You generate a mame.ini file but using the command mame -cc

Search "mame -cc" or post back if you can't get it to work.

Edit: search WITH the quotes or else you'll get eleventy bazillion results.

[lowrider3121]

still no luck

[Hoopz]

still no luck

What OS are you using?

[lowrider3121]

os is mamewah and mame is MAME 0.136 Windows command-line binaries. pc is win 2000

[Hoopz]

Do you know how to pull up a command prompt?  It looks like an old DOS-style window?

I don't know how Win 2000 handles that. 

[Hoopz]

Windows NT, 2000 and XP users

   1. Click Start.
   2. Click Run.
   3. Type cmd or command and press enter.

can you do this?

[lowrider3121]

sure can

[Hoopz]

sure can

Ok, good.  Not trying to treat you like a four year old.... 

Where is your mame folder located?

Something like in the C:/ drive?  Or c:/games/mame?  Or where?

[lowrider3121]

C:\juegos\mame

[Hoopz]

Good.  If you know that, you can do this pretty easily.

In the command prompt window, type:

cd\
It should take you to C:\

Now type cd juegos

You should now be at c:\juegos

Now type cd mame

You should now be at c:\juegos\mame

EDIT - Hit ENTER after each step so cd\  ENTER

[lowrider3121]

okay there now

[Hoopz]

okay there now

Almost done.

Just type mame -cc  ENTER

Then go to your mame folder itself.  You should now see the mame.ini file.  Open it up.  It should open in notepad or whatever text editor Win 2k came with.  Look for a line that says Mouse 0 (or mouse 1).  If it's 0, change it to 1 and save the file before closing it.

Your spinner should work now.

[lowrider3121]

it works thank you so much

[Hoopz]

it works thank you so much

Glad to help.  What are you playing now?  Tempest, Star Trek, Arkanoid?