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u_rebelscum:

--- Quote from: Ed_McCarron on October 19, 2007, 09:32:29 am ---Does the optiwiz present as a mouse to windows?  I swore there was something in accessibility for re-orienting your mouse...

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In addition to what csa3d said, I doubt the rotation with driver will help in mame in the current mame.  Mame now uses RawInput, and it's very likely that the driver does the rotation after RawInput (but it might be before).

Of course, you can remap the axes inside mame.  Tab, game (general), player 1 (probably), trackball X analog, enter, spin trackball, repeat for Y axis.  But won't help outside mame, such as in the FE. :-\

Again, as csa3d said, it's not hard to swap boards and the wires on one of the boards (or you could move just the 4 wires).

diverdown:
FIXED
Did exactly that - ground off the nylok nuts holding the trackball to the plate (couldn't just undo them as the bolts are not actually attached to the mounting plate and the whole bolt and nut turned - grr) GOD I LOVE DREMILS

removed the base of the trackball

swapped the sensors over so x became y.

admired the simplicity and beauty of the gutz of a trackball

put it all back together

cut the yellow and green wires and swapped them around

plugged it back into PC

recut the yellow and green wires and joined them back the way they were

cut the brown and blue wires and swapped them

plugged it back in

VOILA





--- Quote from: csa3d on October 19, 2007, 09:42:18 am ---Even if you do find a software fix.. if you do not have a roller at the top of the trackball, it spins very differently when trying to get it to spin up very quickly.  Give it a try and if that doesn't bother you, this fix might be for you as well.

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csa3d

 I cant remember where the rollers are now but I assume thay are in the  wrong place (like left and base instead of right and top)  Does this actually affect game play and if so how?



And now to work out this Led Wiz gizmo - that looks confusing....

csa3d:

--- Quote from: diverdown on October 19, 2007, 07:46:17 pm ---
csa3d

 I cant remember where the rollers are now but I assume thay are in the  wrong place (like left and base instead of right and top)  Does this actually affect game play and if so how?



And now to work out this Led Wiz gizmo - that looks confusing....

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If you have your trackball back together, give it a good, hard test spin in the up direction.  Note the spin.  Now try it again for the down position.  Note the spin.  You should find that one of those directions has a longer spin time.  The one that does, is the position of the roller.  Since the trackball is more or less free floating in there, the long roller gives it a more sturdy surface area to contact for fast spin.

Gameplay?  I don't know.  I  am trying to NOT hook up my machine until I'm done (I could end up taking as long as Missle Command to finish up :) )  I did however, hook up the control panel to a pc to verify the axis.  Based on the spin test from above, I'll assume golf and bowling games will play lame if the horizontal roller is not towards the monitor.

The ledwiz wasn't hard to install (finished that the other night as well).  The hardest part for me was trying to remember which 1 of the 4 wires that come with the RGB drive where what.  I also initially plugged the common wire bundle into the ground instead of the +5v slot.  Once you have that figured out, it all sorta works.

-csa

diverdown:
ta I gave it a spin. I assume it will need some time to get the grease displaced in the bearings. It spins ok in up and right, but sluggish in down and left - ahh well I will probably really use it as a mouse in windows/jukebox etcx anhowq.

Thanks all for your help

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