Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum

Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: rackoon on September 09, 2011, 12:43:55 am

Title: Can I use my cab joystick as a mouse?
Post by: rackoon on September 09, 2011, 12:43:55 am

I have a PC game called World of Zoo on my cab for my 5 year old daughter. :lol She is pretty good with the stick and there isnt much room to run a mouse on my cab's cp.
I have played games that used the joystick to move a hand to select items. How can I get this to work for PC games that dont support a joystick? :dunno

Title: Re: Can I use my cab joystick as a mouse?
Post by: Grimoz on September 09, 2011, 02:45:39 am

Hmmm....not sure about a joystick moving a mouse cursor but a trackball definitely can.

Title: Re: Can I use my cab joystick as a mouse?
Post by: crashwg on September 09, 2011, 04:37:50 am

In WinXP, Control Panel, Accessibility Options, there is a tab to enable "MouseKeys".  I'm not sure if it will translate well to a joystick because in my testing pressing 6 & 2 doesn't give you diagonal down and right but rather the last key that was pressed takes over.  Number 3 makes it go diagonal...

Title: Re: Can I use my cab joystick as a mouse?
Post by: DaOld Man on September 09, 2011, 07:29:18 am

You could mount a usb plug somewhere close to the CP, then use a mouse on a small table next to the CP.

Title: Re: Can I use my cab joystick as a mouse?
Post by: BadMouth on September 09, 2011, 09:03:45 am

Is your joystick seen by windows as a joystick or a keyboard?

Google joystick to mouse and you'll find a couple programs.
Joy2Mouse comes to mind.

Title: Re: Can I use my cab joystick as a mouse?
Post by: boardjunkie on September 09, 2011, 11:41:55 am

An *analog* stick *may* work as a mouse....I dunno. A digital (4 switches) stick will not unless theres some clever program out there to do this. I'd assume it would resemble what is in MAME to play trackball games with a joystick.

Title: Re: Can I use my cab joystick as a mouse?
Post by: bkenobi on September 09, 2011, 12:12:32 pm

You can do this just fine with one of those programs (like joy2mouse) or you can use a scripting language to do the same thing (AutoIt or AutoHotKey are good choices).  An analog joystick would probably be easier to use, but a digital joystick will work just fine.  I know I've seen this kind of code on the AHK forum at some point, so that one is ready to use even!

Title: Re: Can I use my cab joystick as a mouse?
Post by: syph007 on September 09, 2011, 04:38:40 pm

If you happen to have a U360 in there, there is a mouse map for that stick that I use.  Works pretty well for what it is.

Title: Re: Can I use my cab joystick as a mouse?
Post by: rackoon on September 09, 2011, 10:21:06 pm

Im running xp with a ultimarc keyboard hack and a ultimate stick from happs

The main motion of world of Zoo is to hold down a mouse button and move the cursor back and forth to brush and scratch animals. I think a joystick would be best for this. I think I will give one of the  programs recomended once my new video card arives. It turns out I need to be able to run pixel shader 1.1, Bummer. :banghead: