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Title: Trackball SET-UP Questions..
Post by: MAME nut on July 27, 2005, 02:02:10 pm

I searched the threads, but could not find HELP for this.....

I purchased a USB 3" trackball with three buttons.  I have the trackball working with Windows 98SE, but I'm not sure how to tell MAME that I now have a trackball for certain games (i.e. Centipede or Missle Command).

Also, since the trackball and 3 buttons are all connected via USB, is it possible to program those three bottons for ANY of the buttons in the MAME set-up (i.e. have one of them be the fire button in Galaga, even though I'm not using the trackball for that game.) ???

Thanks for the help!!

Title: Re: Trackball SET-UP Questions..
Post by: electricd on July 27, 2005, 02:04:09 pm

Set the "Mouse" setting under "### Input device options ###" in your mame.ini file to 1.  This will tell mame that you want to use your Mouse (ie trackball) where applicable. Not sure on the second question. 

Title: Re: Trackball SET-UP Questions..
Post by: Jollyrob on July 27, 2005, 02:10:10 pm

those 3 buttons are considered mouse buttons...so you'd just have to map (for instance) your galaga fire button to mouse button 1

i would assume

Title: Re: Trackball SET-UP Questions..
Post by: pointdablame on July 27, 2005, 02:30:41 pm

Quote from: Jollyrob on July 27, 2005, 02:10:10 pm

those 3 buttons are considered mouse buttons...so you'd just have to map (for instance) your galaga fire button to mouse button 1

i would assume

yup.

Just hit tab during gameplay and set up the buttons as you wish.