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Title: I can't figure out how to use both a trackball and spinner in my MAME cabinet
Post by: DaddyLongLegs on October 13, 2017, 06:48:11 am

Hello!

I am finally finished with my cabinet and have been messing around with the software-side of things for a few weeks now.

The one thing I have not been able to figure out for the life of me is how to enable/choose which "mouse" to use in a game.

I have both hooked up to my MAME cabinet via USB. I edited the mame.ini file to enable the mouse.  When I press tab to enter the MAME settings during gameplay, I only see MOUSE_1 enabled, and it's for the spinner. So I can play Arkanoid just fine, but I can't play Marble Madness. I see no way to choose the "other" mouse in the game.

All the guides I've found online tell me how to enable one or the other, but I can't find any information on people like me who have both.

Any guidance would be REALLY appreciated! :)

Title: Re: I can't figure out how to use both a trackball and spinner in my MAME cabinet
Post by: Titchgamer on October 13, 2017, 06:57:52 am

Mouse X is the number given to any mouse device it detects i.e. you could have mouse 1 is real mouse, mouse 2 is spinner etc etc.

But trackball and spinner have separate configs in the mame menu.

So if you go into the tab menu and go into the P1 controls screen you will see near the bottom Track X & Y. Those are the settings for your trackball.
Go to Track X and press enter then mover your ball to the right/left and it should show up as mouse #.
Do track Y and move it up down.

For spinner there is a setting called Dial I think it is (Cant remember) Again go to Dial X and move your spinner.

That should be all you need to do in MAME.

But some games require you to go into the service menu to enable the trackball/spinner on a individual game basis.

Title: Re: I can't figure out how to use both a trackball and spinner in my MAME cabinet
Post by: DarthMarino on October 13, 2017, 07:09:32 am

Make sure Multimouse is enabled.

Title: Re: I can't figure out how to use both a trackball and spinner in my MAME cabinet
Post by: KenToad on October 15, 2017, 12:46:04 am

Make sure you're not using a hacked version of Mame that forces directinput. You need rawinput, or at least I did in order to get my 2 spinners and a trackball working individually after enabling multimouse in Mame (one of the latest versions).

Title: Re: I can't figure out how to use both a trackball and spinner in my MAME cabinet
Post by: DaddyLongLegs on October 15, 2017, 08:01:39 am

Thanks for all the replies, all!

Quote from: KenToad on October 15, 2017, 12:46:04 am

Make sure you're not using a hacked version of Mame that forces directinput. You need rawinput, or at least I did in order to get my 2 spinners and a trackball working individually after enabling multimouse in Mame (one of the latest versions).

I am using GroovyMAME. It's definitely a "fork" of MAME. Does it force directinput though?