Trackball control help please

[Apollo]

OK so my Happ trackball interfaced with USB Opti-Pac works just fine as a mouse but when I try to use it in a game I get nothing. What's up? I am using windows command line MAME & Mamewah how do I change the settings of each game so that trackball will control it?
Thankyou

[Goz]

I think you need to edit mame.ini

### Input device options ###
mouse                   1

I could be wrong. It 2:22am and I probably shouldn't be posting.

-Goz

[Apollo]

Can anyone confirm this and if so where the hell is the mame.ini file?

[REBIRTH]

Yes (at least 95% sure).  95% of the time, this is the issue.  In the Mame directory there is a file called "mame.ini".  You can edit it with notepad, it will probably say

### Input device options ###
mouse                  0

now - just change that 0 to a 1.  It comes standard with that set to a 0, and if it is still zero you would have no mouse control within Mame.  

[JustMichael]

Can anyone confirm this and if so where the hell is the mame.ini file?

changing mouse 0 to mouse 1 will allow mice (trackballs, spinners) to work.  As for where the Mame.ini file is, this is dealt with in the docs that come with Mame.  In the "windows.txt" file the option to create the Mame.ini file is the first option listed and it says:

-createconfig / -cc

   Creates the default MAME.INI file. All the following configuration
   options can be permanently changed by editing this configuration file.

You will have to run Mame from a command line with either -createconfig or -cc option.