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Title: Spinner trouble
Post by: lowrider3121 on January 22, 2010, 06:01:31 pm: Hey all just pickup a cheap spinner but can't get it to work in my games I'm running Mamewah as a front end spinner works in windows and in Mamewah just not in the game any ideals tried the tab input game but the game input does not see it. The spinner is a EZMount Arcade Spinner.
Title: Re: Spinner trouble
Post by: ahofle on January 22, 2010, 06:03:20 pm: Make sure you enable mouse in MAME:
http://mamedev.org/devwiki/index.php/FAQ:Controls#Why_doesn.27t_my_mouse_or_trackball_work.3F (http://mamedev.org/devwiki/index.php/FAQ:Controls#Why_doesn.27t_my_mouse_or_trackball_work.3F)
Title: Re: Spinner trouble
Post by: lowrider3121 on January 22, 2010, 06:46:57 pm: I'm running MAME 0.136 Windows command-line binaries can't find the folder to change the 0 to a 1
Title: Re: Spinner trouble
Post by: Hoopz on January 22, 2010, 07:03:31 pm: You generate a mame.ini file but using the command mame -cc

Search "mame -cc" or post back if you can't get it to work.

Edit: search WITH the quotes or else you'll get eleventy bazillion results.
Title: Re: Spinner trouble
Post by: lowrider3121 on January 22, 2010, 07:29:12 pm: still no luck
Title: Re: Spinner trouble
Post by: Hoopz on January 22, 2010, 07:31:43 pm: Quote from: lowrider3121 on January 22, 2010, 07:29:12 pm
still no luck

What OS are you using?
Title: Re: Spinner trouble
Post by: lowrider3121 on January 22, 2010, 07:43:51 pm: os is mamewah and mame is MAME 0.136 Windows command-line binaries. pc is win 2000
Title: Re: Spinner trouble
Post by: Hoopz on January 22, 2010, 07:48:32 pm: Do you know how to pull up a command prompt? It looks like an old DOS-style window?

I don't know how Win 2000 handles that.
Title: Re: Spinner trouble
Post by: Hoopz on January 22, 2010, 07:49:18 pm: Windows NT, 2000 and XP users

1. Click Start.
2. Click Run.
3. Type cmd or command and press enter.

can you do this?
Title: Re: Spinner trouble
Post by: lowrider3121 on January 22, 2010, 07:51:04 pm: sure can
Title: Re: Spinner trouble
Post by: Hoopz on January 22, 2010, 07:54:46 pm: Quote from: lowrider3121 on January 22, 2010, 07:51:04 pm
sure can

Ok, good. Not trying to treat you like a four year old.... :)

Where is your mame folder located?

Something like in the C:/ drive? Or c:/games/mame? Or where?
Title: Re: Spinner trouble
Post by: lowrider3121 on January 22, 2010, 07:56:04 pm: C:\juegos\mame
Title: Re: Spinner trouble
Post by: Hoopz on January 22, 2010, 07:58:55 pm: Good. If you know that, you can do this pretty easily.

In the command prompt window, type:

cd\
It should take you to C:\

Now type cd juegos

You should now be at c:\juegos

Now type cd mame

You should now be at c:\juegos\mame

EDIT - Hit ENTER after each step so cd\ ENTER
Title: Re: Spinner trouble
Post by: lowrider3121 on January 22, 2010, 08:01:57 pm: okay there now
Title: Re: Spinner trouble
Post by: Hoopz on January 22, 2010, 08:05:34 pm: Quote from: lowrider3121 on January 22, 2010, 08:01:57 pm
okay there now

Almost done.

Just type mame -cc ENTER

Then go to your mame folder itself. You should now see the mame.ini file. Open it up. It should open in notepad or whatever text editor Win 2k came with. Look for a line that says Mouse 0 (or mouse 1). If it's 0, change it to 1 and save the file before closing it.

Your spinner should work now.
Title: Re: Spinner trouble
Post by: lowrider3121 on January 22, 2010, 08:11:00 pm: it works thank you so much
Title: Re: Spinner trouble
Post by: Hoopz on January 22, 2010, 08:11:53 pm: Quote from: lowrider3121 on January 22, 2010, 08:11:00 pm
it works thank you so much

:cheers:

Glad to help. What are you playing now? Tempest, Star Trek, Arkanoid?