Mupen 64 & Mouse Cursor - how to hide?

[zorrobandito]

I've been trying a few different N64 emus because Project64 was displaying some weird 'shadow' textures in some games (e.g. Pilotwings). I tried the very old Mupen64 and it runs very well - no ugly GUI clashing with my front-end - but annoyingly it displays a mouse cursor in the middle of the screen. This is not a problem with my front-end (MAMEWah) or any of the 30+ emulators I run but I cannot get rid of it.

I've searched these boards looking for a simple solution but most seem to involve registry hacks (or the equivalent TweakUI hacks) that change the mouse into a small black dot, which I don't want to do because administering the box would be a hassle. I tried nomousy.exe but I can't run anything else until it quits and I still want to program the J-Pac and run the emulator.

Is there a solution for Mupen64?

PS I tried running Mupen64plus but I get an insta-crash on my XP cabinet (it works OK on my Vista laptop).