SDL MAME 64 control question OSX Yosemite

[ladysephiroth]

I'm trying to map spinner (and eventually trackball when I get it put together) to the respective games in MAME (spinner for Breakout and Tempest, Trackball for Centipede and Bowling) and I can't get it to auto map.  Whereas when I mapped my controller I'm using while I build my panel, i just had to click the button or the d-pad direction and it would find it, I can't get it to do that for the analog stuff.  I know it's working, the OS recognizes it and the mouse cursor moves when I spin it, but I can't find anything on how to map it under MAME.  Help?

Thanks!

[PL1]

I'm trying to map spinner (and eventually trackball when I get it put together) to the respective games in MAME (spinner for Breakout and Tempest, Trackball for Centipede and Bowling) and I can't get it to auto map.  Whereas when I mapped my controller I'm using while I build my panel, i just had to click the button or the d-pad direction and it would find it, I can't get it to do that for the analog stuff.  I know it's working, the OS recognizes it and the mouse cursor moves when I spin it, but I can't find anything on how to map it under MAME.  Help?

Thanks!

One minor correction: Spinners and trackballs are optical (mouse) devices, not analog (potentiometer) devices.

MAME should automatically recognize the optical devices if "mouse" is enabled (1) in mame.ini.

#
# CORE INPUT OPTIONS
#
coin_lockout              1
ctrlr                     
mouse                     1
joystick                  1

"mame -cc" (-cc=create config) generates the mame.ini file.


Scott

[ladysephiroth]

Thank you for the semantic correction! I'm still learning the ropes here

I'll look for that in a bit and report back.  Coffee first, mess with computers second

[ladysephiroth]

So I did this on my laptop and it worked great, but when I went to do it on my media machine, it didn't.  Only difference is in the media machine I moved the MAME directory from my user directory to the root of the HD so that multiple users can access it (I have an admin logon that I use to mess with the machine and a user logon for when I take it places)

Does the .ini file need to be in a certain place?  AFAI can tell it's making it in the MAME directory that's on the root drive, does it need to be somewhere else? 

[PL1]

Does the .ini file need to be in a certain place?  AFAI can tell it's making it in the MAME directory that's on the root drive, does it need to be somewhere else?

"mame -cc" should generate he file in the correct location -- either the "mame\" or "mame\ini\" folder. (depending on MAME version IIRC)

If there is a "mame\ini\" folder, the mame.ini file should be in there.

Two other things to keep in mind:

  1. If that type of device (mouse/trackball/spinner) isn't plugged in, MAME will not offer it as a default option.

  2. If you changed any control input settings for a specific game, that will override mame.ini and defaults -- return the inputs to default settings using Enter, ESC (sets it to "none"), Enter, ESC. (resets it to default)


Scott