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Title: Enabling mouse in Command Line Mame
Post by: killbill on March 12, 2004, 03:14:23 pm

Hi,

I'm running Mame through Mamewah.  I'm trying to enable my mouse to play certain games like Centipede and Millipede.

How do I go about doing this?

Thanks.

Title: Re:Enabling mouse in Command Line Mame
Post by: papaschtroumpf on March 12, 2004, 03:24:54 pm

look in your mame.ini, there's an option that you can set to 1 (can't remember its name offhand).

Title: Re:Enabling mouse in Command Line Mame
Post by: killbill on March 12, 2004, 03:43:12 pm

Thanks.  I should have looked there.

Title: Re:Enabling mouse in Command Line Mame
Post by: StephenH on March 16, 2004, 09:48:31 pm

If you are running in pure DOS, you may need a mouse driver.

Title: Re:Enabling mouse in Command Line Mame
Post by: killbill on March 17, 2004, 04:15:52 pm

Thanks, Stephen.

I'm running Command Line Mame through Windows XP.

Just changing the Mame.ini worked for me.

Title: Re:Enabling mouse in Command Line Mame
Post by: 2600 on March 18, 2004, 09:27:06 am

Why we are on the topic.  I've done this and my mouse works, but the mouse buttons do not.  For some reason, I was under the impression that for games like centipede the mouse buttons were also mapped to fire when the mouse is enabled.  Is this correct or do I need to configure it?

Title: Re:Enabling mouse in Command Line Mame
Post by: Tiger-Heli on March 18, 2004, 09:58:01 am

Quote from: 2600 on March 18, 2004, 09:27:06 am

Why we are on the topic.  I've done this and my mouse works, but the mouse buttons do not.  For some reason, I was under the impression that for games like centipede the mouse buttons were also mapped to fire when the mouse is enabled.  Is this correct or do I need to configure it?

You need to configure it -

Either do the "Tab" key, "Input this Game" select "Button 1" and click the mouse button, or set it up in the ctrlr.ini files.

See http://www.mameworld.net/easyemu/mamecontrolini.htm if you didn't follow the last part.

Title: Re:Enabling mouse in Command Line Mame
Post by: 2600 on March 18, 2004, 10:14:15 am

Thanks, for some reason I recalled that for certain games the mouse button and button 1 were both configured as an input by default.

Title: Re:Enabling mouse in Command Line Mame
Post by: Tiger-Heli on March 18, 2004, 10:53:18 am

Quote from: 2600 on March 18, 2004, 10:14:15 am

Thanks, for some reason I recalled that for certain games the mouse button and button 1 were both configured as an input by default.

Actually, I just checked the std.ini ctrlr file that comes with MAME and it is supposed to be enabled.  Not sure if you don't have MAME set up to read this, or if MAME isn't recognizing your mouse buttons.

Post back if you have more problems.

Title: Re:Enabling mouse in Command Line Mame
Post by: 2600 on March 19, 2004, 10:58:24 am

Thanks Tiger-Heli you pointed me in the right spot.   For some reason it wasn't in my ini file, should of checked before I asked.