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Title: Trackball option?
Post by: Smeghead on June 01, 2010, 12:38:58 am

Do you think this might work as a trackball alternative?
I already have one and it works fine as a mouse, I would just have to mount it under the controller sticking through a hole
Just not sure.....I dont think I can do an arcade trackball mouse hack myself, I just suck at soldering
The ball is   2 3/8" in diameter


http://www.hykw.com/tbfan/gallery/pctrac.shtml (http://www.hykw.com/tbfan/gallery/pctrac.shtml)

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Title: Re: Trackball option?
Post by: bkenobi on June 01, 2010, 01:10:55 am

That's how people used to include track balls in their cabs back in the day.  Today, it seems like most people have more money than time and just install a Happs or Benson unit.  I imagine that the fact that large ball PC trackballs are rare at this point might have something to do with this.