Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: mabu on March 28, 2009, 02:22:21 am
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I've finally gotten around to rebuilding my MAME cabinet after a few years. Everything is going well. I've got a Neo Geo cab with an ArcadeVGA and a J-PAC. All my buttons and everything are working fine. I swapped out the old computer for a new one with a newer fresh MAME install and everything is working *except* for my analog inputs. I have a trackball and a spinner. My old setup had them both going into the player 1 JPAC controls but what would happen is it would switch back and forth between the trackball and the spinner if there was x secs of inactivity. I was advised to put the trackball on player 2 and spinner on player 1 so that's what I've done with the new setup. I'm ready to go except MAME doesn't seem to recognize any of the analog inputs - I'm just getting this part of the software configured and any help would be appreciated.
Obviously, changing the input settings doesn't seem to work from within MAME - I figure I have to edit something like the mame.ini or controller.ini. Can anyone give me some help as to what I set in what field to re-enable the P1 spinner and the trackball on P2?
Thanks very much for any assistance!
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I'm not sure if this will be of any help, but i'll try. I don't have a JPAC myself, my trackball connects directly through USB
Have a look in your mame.ini file and look for the core input options. See if changing the relevant device controls to mouse will help.
By default, i think they are all set to keyboard. I dont have a spinner my self, and my trackball is a USB version, but changing the trackball_device to mouse enables it in mame for me. The spinner i guess would be dial_device, dont know if anyone else can elaborate.
Here is part of my mame.ini file
# CORE INPUT AUTOMATIC ENABLE OPTIONS
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paddle_device keyboard
adstick_device keyboard
pedal_device keyboard
dial_device keyboard
trackball_device mouse
lightgun_device keyboard
positional_device keyboard
mouse_device mouse
Hope you get it sorted :cheers:
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Actually I meant to say an Optipac... I have the analog devices plugged into that - not the j-pac.
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Thanks for the advice - I made some changes and it looks like it helped. It also helped setting the P1+P2 jumper on the optipac. It's still acting a bit flaky though and I'm not sure why. I thought if I connected the trackball to P2 and the spinner to P1, they wouldn't flip back and forth and they are - I'm still trying to iron things out, but I appreciate any and all advice and comments. Does anyone have an optipac and want to share their setup?
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Make sure multimouse is enabled in your ini file:
multimouse 1