Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: goldenageofarcade on September 04, 2010, 01:02:04 am
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Hi Guys,
I've been out of the MAME community for about 6 years, prior to that I spent most of my free time for the better part of a year researching, planning and building my cabinets, which totalled 4. For whatever reason, I had an inkling a few weeks ago to take a look at what's going on. Many of my old links are no dead, which was discouraging, but BYOAC was still going strong, and I stumbled upon this forum, never having noticed it in the past when I was spending so much time learning about how to build my cabinets.
Anyway, I have been looking at sites still around, like Ultimarc, as well as a few hundred posts on this site, and I'm getting the impression that it's now possible to run multiple mouse inputs on a single machine at the same time without using analog+ (I think that's what it's called, it has been a while now).
Can someone tell me if this is the case? If it is, I might have to start planning another cab for Super-Sprint type games, maybe with a second panel for dual track-ball games (well, to be honest, I can only think of Marble-Madness, but that game alone would warrant the build for me).
Any info/advice would be greatly appreciated!
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I got a trackball USB, 9 pin serial mouse and lightgun that acts like a mouse
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Sorry, what I'm getting at is having 2 inputs working at the same time, for example player 1 and player 2 trackballs in Marble Madness, or player 1 and player 2 spinners in Super Sprint, etc. My newest cabinet is running Win2K, so I'm wondering if newer versions of Windows and/or MAME will allow such a thing?
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Yes, windows 7 recognizes my trackball as a mouse, my normal mouse, and a gun as a mouse.
So if you bought 2 happ usb trackballs you could have 2 trackballs if your pc has 2 usb inputs
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What they are saying is that it's so simple now that it's taken for granted.
There is an option in the MAME cfg file to enable multiple mice.
# CORE INPUT OPTIONS
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coin_lockout 0
ctrlr X-Arcade
mouse 1
joystick 1
lightgun 1
multikeyboard 1
multimouse 1
steadykey 0
offscreen_reload 1
joystick_map auto
joystick_deadzone 0.32
joystick_saturation 0.85
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Wow, that's awesome! I've been out of it too long... I guess it's time to start collecting parts and software for a new build. I was also pretty excited to find the restrictor plate reproductions for Tron sticks. I guess my free time for the next 6 months is going to be pretty-well spoken for.
Thanks very much for the replies!