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Title: trackball/spinner not recognizing in mame?
Post by: ts on December 09, 2003, 09:11:27 pm

How do i get mame to recognize my spinner and trackball.  Both are attached via usb.  Both the spinner and trackball will move my mouse cursor in windows but when i load up say centipede or tempest the joystick will play the game but not the spinner  or trackball.  i assume somewhere in the ini or cfg files i need to change something but i am not sure... do i need to do something for each individual game?

what am i missing

Title: Re:trackball/spinner not recognizing in mame?
Post by: u_rebelscum on December 10, 2003, 01:07:34 am

Quote from: ts on December 09, 2003, 09:11:27 pm

How do i get mame to recognize my spinner and trackball.  Both are attached via usb.  Both the spinner and trackball will move my mouse cursor in windows but when i load up say centipede or tempest the joystick will play the game but not the spinner  or trackball.  i assume somewhere in the ini or cfg files i need to change something but i am not sure... do i need to do something for each individual game?

what am i missing

Enable mouse.  Lots of different ways:

• -mouse at commandline, or
  
• mouse 1 in mame.ini file, or
  
• mouse 1 in ini/gamename.ini (with inipath ini in mame.ini) for every game you want mice, or
  
• mouse 1 in ctrlr/ctrlrfoldername/mouse.ini (with ctrlr ctrlrfoldername in mame.ini, and trackball_ini "mouse" and dial_ini "mouse" in ctrlr/ctrlrfoldername/default.ini file)

Title: Re: trackball/spinner not recognizing in mame?
Post by: ppriorfl on May 31, 2025, 04:14:34 pm

Hey it's me from the future.  I haven't set up a mame machine in decades but @u_rebelscum just fixed my problem from a post way back in 2003 - THANKS MAN!