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Title: Two Tracksball - how to add and for which games?
Post by: Carsten Wessels on March 12, 2002, 08:00:26 am
Hi!

Well, I played MarbleMadness yesterday and thought of adding two trackballs to my still planed Mame cabinet.

Are there any more games with "two player at the same time with trackball" support? Or is it more or less useless, 'cause only for this game available?

Any idea how to hack two custom (Have this Crystal trackball) trackballs together?

Many thanx in advance!

Carsten
Title: Re: Two Tracksball - how to add and for which game
Post by: Jonathan_the_Red on March 12, 2002, 08:51:48 am
Well, there's Marble Madness 2 ;)  Dunno of other two-trackball games... try KLOV.com (http://www.klov.com).

There are a number of solutions for having two trackballs. I actually have a total of three pointing devices... spinner, trackball, and "pencil-eraser" thingy on my keyboard. I use an Y-Mouse USB (http://www.ymouse.com) in conjunction with a D-Link H4SMK (http://www.dlink.com/products/usb/dsbh4smk). This gives me quite a few USB and PS/2 ports available.
Title: Re: Two Tracksball - how to add and for which game
Post by: SirPoonga on March 12, 2002, 12:45:01 pm
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Hi!

Well, I played MarbleMadness yesterday and thought of adding two trackballs to my still planed Mame cabinet.

Are there any more games with "two player at the same time with trackball" support? Or is it more or less useless, 'cause only for this game available?

Any idea how to hack two custom (Have this Crystal trackball) trackballs together?

Many thanx in advance!

Carsten



http://www.mame.dk/?special=trackball

There's quite abit that have more than one player, not sure how many have more than one trackball.

A simple way to get more than one trackball is to use Windows 98/ME and Analog+:Mame.
http://urebelscum.speedhost.comcorrection, more than one trackball using usb.
Atari football used 4....
Title: Re: Two Tracksball - how to add and for which game
Post by: Thenasty on March 12, 2002, 01:19:34 pm
don't forget Arcade Classics uses two trackballs.
Title: Re: Two Tracksball - how to add and for which game
Post by: u_rebelscum on March 12, 2002, 02:21:57 pm
Other 2 trackball games:

Rampart (3 trackballs)
Cabal (not the bootleg, though)

Quick list of game drivers that mame emulates with 2 or more trackballs (in no order):
*note: the names were cut and pasted from the driver .c files, so the names might not match the ROM names, and could include non-working games.

Also, there are many more games with 2 dials (spinners) that the trackballs can simulate, if you want.
Title: Re: Two Tracksball - how to add and for which game
Post by: Carsten Wessels on March 12, 2002, 02:29:11 pm
:)Thanx for the list and all replies!
I'll test these games and then deceide if it's worth the effort to add two trackballs. :)