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Rturb0:
I am doing some work on my original MAME cab that I built back in Feb 2008.

I originally had a 2-player, 6-button, 1 trackball layout. The Trackball is USB, the other controls are through a MiniPAC(USB).

I then wanted to play one of my old favs, Heavy Barrel. My wife loves Arkanoid as well, so I swapped out  the 8-way Joysticks for a set of Happ Optical Rotary sticks, and hooked them up through an OptiPAC (USB).

The problem is, the rotary sticks work perfectly in Windows XP but as soon as I load up mame they go dead (or at best are very intermittent).  I tried moving the OptiPAC and the MiniPAC to different USB slots (i.e. one is in the front, one is in the back) but it didn't help.

Is there a configuration step I am missing or is there some sort of conflict between the MiniPAC optical interface (which I dont use) and the OptiPAC? The trackball always works fine, so I don't think it is a multi-mouse type problem, but I am at a loss.

I am thinking of switching the miniPAC to an I-PAC2 in hopes they play better together, but if I am just missing a configuration step, that would be even better.

Thanks for any help....

Blanka:
You might wanna try the Minipac over PS/2 first.

u_rebelscum:

--- Quote from: Rturb0 on January 27, 2009, 12:30:58 pm ---I am doing some work on my original MAME cab that I built back in Feb 2008.

I originally had a 2-player, 6-button, 1 trackball layout. The Trackball is USB, the other controls are through a MiniPAC(USB).

... Happ Optical Rotary sticks ...hooked them up through an OptiPAC (USB).

The problem is, the rotary sticks work perfectly in Windows XP but as soon as I load up mame they go dead (or at best are very intermittent).  I tried moving the OptiPAC and the MiniPAC to different USB slots (i.e. one is in the front, one is in the back) but it didn't help.

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What version number of mame are you using?  How are the two optical spinner parts of the joystick wired to the optipac (both on X axis, or one on X & one on Y; spinner or TB ports; which spinner/TB #)?  Do you have -multimouse enabled or disabled?

If it works in windows, it should work in mame, but exactly how depends on above details.

Rturb0:

--- Quote from: u_rebelscum on January 28, 2009, 12:13:12 pm ---
What version number of mame are you using?  How are the two optical spinner parts of the joystick wired to the optipac (both on X axis, or one on X & one on Y; spinner or TB ports; which spinner/TB #)?  Do you have -multimouse enabled or disabled?

If it works in windows, it should work in mame, but exactly how depends on above details.

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Using Mame .123u1 currently. Getting ready to upgrade the pc hard drive and move to .129u2

I have the joysticks both wired to rotary 1 on the optipac.

-multimouse is enabled.

Thanks for the help

u_rebelscum:

--- Quote from: Rturb0 on January 28, 2009, 04:01:37 pm ---... I have the joysticks both wired to rotary 1 on the optipac.

-multimouse is enabled.

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Have you remapped the for the rotaries?  With -multimouse enabled, the sticks will be on mouse 2 (or higher), and mame's defaults only include mouse 1 mapped to player 1, IIRC.  (You TB sounds to be "mouse 1".)  Also, with "both wired to rotary 1", (I hope) one is on X axis, the other on Y, and defaults for dial/positional inputs are the X axis.

The "easier" fix is to disable -multimouse, but if you do ... you still will need to remap player 2's input, and if the TB is moved it will effect the game.

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