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Avrus:

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Also, has this ever worked for you -- or is this the first time you're trying it?  ...

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Avrus, both work if the optipac dipswitch is set to one player.  (See OP's first post.)

So it's not the TB to optipac, or optipac or PC connections.

Something else is up.

Mamushka, with the optipac in p1/p2 mode, and -multimouse enabled (set to 1), and -verbose enabled, does mouse show adding both mice?  (The lines will start: "Input: Adding Mouse #x...")

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Well in this case "work" is a bit subjective.  Both providing input as Axis 1 is not the same as both providing independent input.  That's why I was asking him to check the jumpers. 

Avrus:
Any luck?

Mamushka:

--- Quote from: u_rebelscum on July 25, 2008, 04:54:11 pm ---
--- Quote from: Avrus on July 24, 2008, 05:28:04 pm ---...
Also, has this ever worked for you -- or is this the first time you're trying it?  ...

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Avrus, both work if the optipac dipswitch is set to one player.  (See OP's first post.)

So it's not the TB to optipac, or optipac or PC connections.

Something else is up.

Mamushka, with the optipac in p1/p2 mode, and -multimouse enabled (set to 1), and -verbose enabled, does mouse show adding both mice?  (The lines will start: "Input: Adding Mouse #x...")

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OK you officially lost me  :P What is "-verbose enabled"? Please note, I am a Mechanical Engineer so I don't understand much beyond "righty tighty, loosey lefty"  ;)

John

Mamushka:

--- Quote from: Avrus on July 28, 2008, 01:00:57 am ---Any luck?

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Not yet, still talking to Andy from Ultimark. Apparently it "should" be working. I'm sure I'll get it eventually, I'm just wondering how stupid I'll look when I figure out what I have been doing wrong :P

John

u_rebelscum:

--- Quote from: Mamushka on July 28, 2008, 08:11:28 pm ---
--- Quote from: u_rebelscum on July 25, 2008, 04:54:11 pm ---Mamushka, with the optipac in p1/p2 mode, and -multimouse enabled (set to 1), and -verbose enabled, does mouse show adding both mice?  (The lines will start: "Input: Adding Mouse #x...")

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OK you officially lost me  :P What is "-verbose enabled"? Please note, I am a Mechanical Engineer so I don't understand much beyond "righty tighty, loosey lefty"  ;)

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Ah, forgot you're using mameUI which doesn't have that option in the UI.  The -verbose option is a common option for commandline apps to "print out lots of info to the commandline,", but mameUI doesn't output to commandline, either.  Makes it a little harder to see what mame/mameUI is seeing. ;)

You could either download the commandline mame, or run mameUI from the commandline.

To run mameUI from commandline (note I don't have Vista):
-Open the mameUI folder in windows explorer.
-Highlight what in the address box, and copy (ctrl-C) it.
-Open a command prompt (I think start -> all programs -> accessories -> command prompt, but I don't have Vista yet, or read this maybe if you can't get to the command prompt)
-Type "cd " (including the space), right click the mouse in the command prompt windows, click paste.  The address you copied earlier should appear. 
-Press enter.  You should be in the mameUI folder.
-Type "mameui32 -verbose marble > verbose.txt"  (marble can be any TB game you have.)
-Start game, and exit (esc key).
-Open the resulting file verbose.txt (IOW double click the file that just appeared in the windows explorer.) 
-Look for the lines I mentioned in earlier post.

And since downloading normal mame will probably take about the same steps + the setup, I suggest trying the above first.  I know the above works for

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