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barranger:
I'm in the (very) early phase of creating my first CP.  I've decided that for my first go at it I'll be attempting a Golden Tee/ Golf CP.  After looking through the board and doing a few searches, I've come up with two questions:

1)  I've seen that many people have used MS Intellimouse hack for the TB.  Has anyone tried using the 5 button optical version of this mouse so that you can have 5 CP buttons connected to it? (From the look of things I'll only need the 5 buttons).

2)  I'll only ever need to have on CP (or cab for that matter); how hard it is to break down a CP and reuse the buttons, Joysticks, and TB?

Thanks a lot in advance and for creating this great resource of info.
Barranger

Minwah:
1) When you say 'optical' I presume you mean the type with no ball?  These can't be easily hacked, afaik.

2) Sorry I don't understand what you mean...

spystyle:
I'm not the authority on this one but I have the idea that people use machanical mice because of the "light chopper/encoder wheel" inside, an optical mouse is a laser device and the laser reads against a pattern, like the grain on your wooden desk, I think the laser has a hard time reading against smooth, non-patterned surfaces (like a trackball, or pool table ball)

As far as I know you take the guts out of your mouse and line up the encoders against the trackball's encoder wheels.

There are many tutorials on the matter, a google search of : trackball + "mouse hack"
should yeild many results, there are also many DIY spinner project tutorials out there, I think the most recent one here was the "bunny top"

There's always Ebay too, some sellers sell control panels that already have a trackball or spinner on them , sometimes as low as $25

an Ebay search of "control panel" in arcade catagory should yeild many results

Can you dig it?
Craig


Here are a few links on trackball to mouse hack :

http://www.mameworld.net/massive/How-to/Trackball_Hack/trackball_hack.html

http://mamewah.mameworld.net/mousehack.html

http://users.adelphia.net/~seanhat/arcade/mousehack.htm



barranger:
Sorry for being stupid (not enough coffee yet) of course it can't be a optical mouse :(

Does anyone know if MS makes a 5 button non-optical mouse?  And if so has anyone hack it yet?  My real question was should the 4th and 5th buttons be any different to hack than the first three?

Thanks again,
Barranger

spystyle:
There's always a keyboard or gamepad hack if you need more buttons than the mouse can supply.

I scanned pricewatch.com and all the 5 button mice were optical. The closest was a 4 button :
http://www.shentech.com/kemo4scmobus.html

perhapse the scroll could be hacked as button 5? or does it already count towords the 4 buttons...

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