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Dmod:
I tried wiring up my USB trackball/mouse with the mouse buttons connected to the player 1 buttons.  I thought this was nifty way to eliminate some extra buttons from my cabinet until I tried to use Daphne and found I couldn't remap the controls to use the mouse buttons.

So, I'll pose it as a general question:
Where's the best place to wire those darned mouse buttons?

TOK:
In my first CP, I made the mistake (one of many  ;D ) of using a separate set of buttons for the mouse. When I rebuild it, I'm going to include them as the second row (buttons 4, 5, 6) of a Street Fighter style layout.

Buttons 1 through 3 will use the MAME defaults, the rest will have to be remapped. Since I don't play fighters except when company is over, I find that I don't use the second row much anyhow.

shorthair:
I was looking at my panel the other day and it looked to me that left and right were part of the trackball and went straight out to the USB with it.  The center - well all of them - can be wired this way, too, but on mine they wired it to another button or something. (How often is someone going to use the mouse wheel on a panel?...actually, cos I use Mame32, I would...but I haven't changed it over yet.)

So, I'm wondering why you wired them to somewhere else?

acevedor2:
I have found that a $20 wireless keyboard and mouse work much better.  Just my .02

Dmod:

--- Quote from: shorthair on March 18, 2007, 08:29:04 pm ---So, I'm wondering why you wired them to somewhere else?

--- End quote ---

It sounds like your panel has dedicated left and right mouse buttons.

The question is really aimed at panels that don't have dedicated mouse buttons where the mouse inputs are connected to buttons that serve a different primary function (e.g.  P1 and P2 start).

In both cases, the wiring goes to the trackball and out the USB port just like you stated.

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