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TopJimmyCooks:
Over the weekend I realized all my spinner games were set on an analog speed of 1 and I was steering by just resting my hand on the spinner and breathing.  I need to slow it down.  Tempest is ok but arkanoid is unplayable.  Cameltry is playable but the graphics are choppy.  I just spent a 1/2 hour reading old threads on mouse/spinners on Z axis and didn't come up with anything I could run with.  It seems like somewhere I read that the scroll wheel was 3x more sensitive than XY or something. 


* Turbotwist 1 with onboard optiwiz
* spinner is on Z, trackball on XY
* windows XP 32
Is there a way to change this in Mame?  Should I let the spinner share X with the trackball, (which works great sensitivity wise)?  Should I change the mouse polling rate with software from some russian overclocking site? find a new mouse driver?  make a new encoding wheel with half the hash marks on it? 

Any help/wisdom is appreciated.


mgb:
Heres something from the wiki. http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Spinner_Turn_Count

I also remember reading some other threads on this somewhere around here

TopJimmyCooks:
I appreciate that, MGB.  I'm fully read up on the state of spinners in 2006  :laugh2:  Seriously, the first thread listed in the wiki is one I spent a lot of time with when I first got the spinner and I enjoyed reviewing it. 

If anyone has info on how to reduce the effective tooth count, change polling rate, etc. let me know, otherwise I'll see if I can have both 1 axis of the trackball and the spinner on the x axis of the optiwiz.  the polling rate change program in the first link under the wiki doesn't work, I guess I can mess with the russian warez version further but it didn't work right off.   could be user error.  would love to know if that's worth looking into in the first place. 

RandyT:

--- Quote from: TopJimmyCooks on January 30, 2012, 12:56:23 pm ---It seems like somewhere I read that the scroll wheel was 3x more sensitive than XY or something. 

--- End quote ---

Actually, it's about 4x.  This is the doings of Windows and the way it handles the Z.  MAME used to handle it properly, prior to the RAW input update.  I understand that a patch is still floating around for later versions.

Poll rates have nothing to do with this, and you do not need to mess around with any of that for a TT2 to work correctly.

RandyT

TopJimmyCooks:
Thanks Randy, its an older TT1 with attached optiwiz board.  I'll do a look for the diff to patch that in mame.

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