trackball setup UGH........

[govee]

My setup is XP, MAMEWAH, MAME 61 and 120, Minipac, Spinner and trackball from Ultimarc. The trackball and spinner used to work( no idea what I did to change that) in mame. Both controls work in XP and Mamewah (not spinner).  I have done numerous searches that netted ini changes or game inputs change attempts, all to no avail. I really need some instructions on how to get this done, I really miss Missile Command and Tempest!


Thanks

[Jdurg]

Have you set up MAME to accept multiple mice?  Both a trackball and a spinner will be looked at as mice in MAME.  If you don't have MAME configured to accept multiple mice, it won't work properly.

[u_rebelscum]

If you don't have MAME configured to accept multiple mice, it won't work properly.

Depends on what "properly" means.  I'll bet he'll be happier with -multimouse disabled.

Mame 0.61 and mame 0.120 have many differences in the options, so they will need separate mame.ini files (if they don't already).  One that hasn't changed is the -mouse option.  Make sure it is enabled in both versions.

0.120 has the -multimouse option, 0.61 doesn't.  The -multimouse option enabled "splits" the mouse type input devices so mame sees each separately.  The -multimouse option disabled "combines" all mouse type devices so mame treats them as one, just like the windows desktop cursor, and older versions of mame that didn't have the -multimouse option.  Since you have 0.61, disabling -multimouse ("multimouse 0" in mame.ini for 0.120) will make both version act the same.

If you've tried what's been said on using mouse devices in mame, I'll just be repeating it, but...
Enable mice by changing "mouse 0" to "mouse 1" in the mame.ini file.  If you don't have a mame.ini file, type "mame -cc" at the commandline in the folder holding that mame.  (repeat for other version of mame.)

More help will need more info on your setup (and what you've tried if you don't want us to tell you to repeat them).

[govee]

I am in Chicago on business and will look this weekend.  I am certain I have looked at the -mouse switch but do not remember anything related -multimouse. I will take a close look at the ini files and check what it says for mouse and multimouse.

Thanks for suggestions

[govee]

 
Well after taking another look at my setup I realized it was not the setup (Mouse 1) that was my problem. I had been playing with Linux and copied my mame folders to a shared drive so that the roms would be accessable for both OS. I forgot that I had not deleted them from thier original location. Jump foward 3 or 4 months...... You can make changes to an ini file all day but if it isnt in the right directory.... 



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