I found a way to Hide Mouse perfectly! BUT

[Demon-Seed]

Hey
I have been working on getting my cabinet to run without seeing windows etc..... the info on the board has been very helpful.. I got it all working....
see bios 1st, then custom Demoncade loading screen, then right into Mamewah.. all windows xp screens, logon screens, taskbar etc is gone!

only problem was mouse.. I messed with transparent mouse icons but when windows boots it still flashed a white mouse for second or two no matter what i did...

I read how to disable the mouse and it removed it totally!!! heres how I did it in xp:

For all non-germans:

"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Mouclass" to 4 to disable the mouse.


You can alternativly use for Win 95/98

c:\windows\rundll.exe mouse,disable c:\windows\rundll.exe keyboard,disable


OKAY now the big BUT..it worked perfect....however ZSNES would not run.. all other emus run perfect no problems.. with ZSNES it would give a directx input error. as soon as I changed the mouse to back on it worked.. I am guessing that directx looks for something?? I am not sure.. if anyone can solve that part it should work fine...... did for me just not with ZSNES.


good luck
JIM

[u_rebelscum]

....however ZSNES would not run.. all other emus run perfect no problems.. with ZSNES it would give a directx input error. as soon as I changed the mouse to back on it worked.. I am guessing that directx looks for something?? I am not sure.. if anyone can solve that part it should work fine...... did for me just not with ZSNES.

I don't know how to solve the problem, but sounds like ZSNES uses directInput for mouse input (like mame), but crashes if it can't find a mouse (unlike mame).  Not good error checking on ZSNES's part, if that's what' going on.

What does the error say?

[jcrouse]

Well, not a resolution but be aware (if your not) that a new version of ZSNES came out a couple of days ago. It's a long shot but if your not using it already maybe it will solve your mouse issue.

John

[JB]

....however ZSNES would not run.. all other emus run perfect no problems.. with ZSNES it would give a directx input error. as soon as I changed the mouse to back on it worked.. I am guessing that directx looks for something?? I am not sure.. if anyone can solve that part it should work fine...... did for me just not with ZSNES.

I don't know how to solve the problem, but sounds like ZSNES uses directInput for mouse input (like mame), but crashes if it can't find a mouse (unlike mame).  Not good error checking on ZSNES's part, if that's what' going on.

Well, zSNES has required a mouse for a long time, so it's not really surprising.
I THINK you can use the DOS version, and pass the command-line options to disable the frontend, and it'll work with no mouse. Dunno if there's anything remotely similar for the win version.

[Demon-Seed]

Hey
Its not a big deal to me I still use the mouse in mamewah..maybe some others can try and advise