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Title: Need a quick answer for hacking a USB tracball
Post by: GMZombie on June 04, 2005, 05:27:34 pm

ok i have a happ controls USB/PS2 tracball. I need to use it on both my golden Tee fore 2005 game and mame...im thinking i may be able to cut apart the ribbon that connects the 2 optic pcbs together and get the required traces needed to setup a ribbon to tgoto the golden tee fore pcb...has anybody done this and if so how? Or could i just get a female ps2 connecter and wire up from there as i use the usb anyways...

Title: Re: Need a quick answer for hacking a USB tracball
Post by: GMZombie on June 28, 2005, 02:23:03 pm

bump for an answer on this

Title: Re: Need a quick answer for hacking a USB tracball
Post by: AlanS17 on June 28, 2005, 05:57:36 pm

Sounds like danger for a dedicated PC trackball. You would probably be better off buying an arcade trackball with a PC analog encoder like an Opti-PAC. That way you could split the signal wires safely without having to risk damaging anything internally. Sucks that you already have the thing, though.

Title: Re: Need a quick answer for hacking a USB tracball
Post by: 19rjs99 on June 28, 2005, 07:18:18 pm

Buy the happ trackball harness (about $8.00) and a usb hack from Oscar (Another $8.00) with the trackball connector. You can them plug in one or the other.

Title: Re: Need a quick answer for hacking a USB tracball
Post by: GMZombie on June 30, 2005, 02:48:57 am

are you talking just a normal trackball harness cause i have one of those...but i will have to change out my usb trackball harness with the normal pcbs too right. Also i seen a usb trackball interface kit that uses a normal trackball and it has a pcb that you hook the trackball too and it has a seperate cord that goes to the computer. I guess i could use that too although its about 40 dollars but it says it hot swappable. anybody use that kit yet? its not the one that gives you the pcbs for the trackball either the other one.
http://www.happcontrols.com/industrial/trackballs/56110000.htm

theres a link for it...