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Title: Trackball Problems
Post by: Marky_1979 on July 17, 2005, 08:27:27 pm
I cant get my trackball working with games.

It works fine in the main menu i can scroll up and down the lists of games on maewah but it wont recognise the trackball in any games ??? help please
Title: Re: Trackball Problems
Post by: Q*Bert_OP on July 17, 2005, 08:54:55 pm
Go into defalt game settings, go under control? -enable mouse input...
Title: Re: Trackball Problems
Post by: Marky_1979 on July 18, 2005, 06:08:51 am
I asume you mean in maewah when you select input mouse as 1 as i have done this already as i said it works normally except when it comes to the actual games itself :(
Title: Re: Trackball Problems
Post by: Minwah on July 18, 2005, 06:55:44 am
I asume you mean in maewah when you select input mouse as 1 as i have done this already as i said it works normally except when it comes to the actual games itself :(

Nope, he means in (mame's) mame.ini file - set mouse 1.  If you don't have a mame.ini, then you need to run 'mame -cc' from a command prompt to generate it.
Title: Re: Trackball Problems
Post by: Marky_1979 on July 18, 2005, 07:03:05 am
SOUNDS LIKE THAT MIGHT BE THE PROBLEM SORRY HOW DO I CREATE THIS INI FILE
Title: Re: Trackball Problems
Post by: Minwah on July 18, 2005, 07:26:54 am
SOUNDS LIKE THAT MIGHT BE THE PROBLEM SORRY HOW DO I CREATE THIS INI FILE

http://www.mameworld.net/easyemu/mameguide/mamew32setup.htm
Title: Re: Trackball Problems
Post by: Marky_1979 on July 18, 2005, 10:07:26 am
many thanks minwah your a star
Title: More problems
Post by: Marky_1979 on July 18, 2005, 10:18:58 am
trackball problem 2 the ball moves very slowly i admit it has been out of use for a while but iv tried cleaning it and it just doesnt seem to move as freely as it did when i first got it.

Do you think i should buy some new bearings kit from the happs site will this get it back to its proper state?
Title: Re: Trackball Problems
Post by: Q*Bert_OP on July 18, 2005, 11:02:13 am
Try adjusting the sensitivity in mame first.
Title: Re: Trackball Problems
Post by: Marky_1979 on July 18, 2005, 01:23:41 pm
it still seems sluggish to me i could be wrong and maybe expecting it to be perfect when this is as good as it gets but to me seems really quite slow. I tried playing simpsons bowling with it and just kept going slow and wide
 very frustrating
Title: Re: Trackball Problems
Post by: Minwah on July 18, 2005, 02:04:13 pm
it still seems sluggish to me i could be wrong and maybe expecting it to be perfect when this is as good as it gets but to me seems really quite slow. I tried playing simpsons bowling with it and just kept going slow and wide
 very frustrating

Try something else, like Missile Command.  You should be able to adjust the sensitivity and get it to be responsive enough.
Title: Re: Trackball Problems
Post by: Marky_1979 on July 18, 2005, 04:35:10 pm
seems to work really well with that game yet combat school it doesnt even work which is annoying guess its better in some games than others then.
Title: Re: Trackball Problems
Post by: Minwah on July 18, 2005, 04:57:48 pm
seems to work really well with that game yet combat school it doesnt even work which is annoying guess its better in some games than others then.

Make sure you're playing the trackball version...some of the clones are for joystick I believe.
Title: Re: Trackball Problems
Post by: Marky_1979 on July 18, 2005, 07:09:19 pm
Good call will try all versions :)
Title: Re: Trackball Problems
Post by: Marky_1979 on July 18, 2005, 07:25:51 pm
no luck all versions have problems well 4 me they do
Title: Re: Trackball Problems
Post by: Marky_1979 on July 19, 2005, 10:30:33 am
Begining to think that its not playable with a trackball on mame :( has anyone actually played it and got it working on there cab?

COMBAT SCHOOL THAT IS
Title: Re: Trackball Problems
Post by: Minwah on July 19, 2005, 10:47:38 am
Begining to think that its not playable with a trackball on mame :( has anyone actually played it and got it working on there cab?

Yes, but I'm still running MAME v0.92.  It could be that it has problems now, although I don't know why that might be.
Title: Re: Trackball Problems
Post by: Marky_1979 on July 19, 2005, 11:15:54 am
I agree that seems very strange what settings do you have on your trackball sensitivity etc
Title: Re: Trackball Problems
Post by: Minwah on July 19, 2005, 11:58:13 am
I agree that seems very strange what settings do you have on your trackball sensitivity etc

No idea, but I recall it worked with the defaults (as should yours).

Are you sure you have mouse enabled for all games?

Let's keep this in the software forum: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=40097.0