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Title: Configuring mame to accept Mouse Z for spinner
Post by: Czapala on February 02, 2007, 07:57:11 am

I apologize if this has been discussed or answered before.  But my quick search (before I run to class) did not give any straight forward answers.

I have Mame 1.06 and was wondering how to configure my Spinner to work in Mame.  It is a Turbo twist set for Z axis with a trackball hooked up to the X & Y axis.  Everything, 3 buttons, trackball, and even spinner (side scroll) work in windows, so I know it works.  I just need to get it to work in mame for games like Tron and Tempest ... etc.

Is there a straight forward way? maybe in the mame.ini?

Thanks for any info you can give me.

Title: Re: Configuring mame to accept Mouse Z for spinner
Post by: Czapala on February 02, 2007, 10:28:23 am

Actually if somone could point me to a "MAME configuration for DUMMIES" site, that would help.

I just thought about Centipede.  When I was getting my trackball to work, Centipede was the FULL screen.  Wasn't that game a "vertical" game?  So apparently I need to know how to change that too !  sheesh!

Title: Re: Configuring mame to accept Mouse Z for spinner
Post by: u_rebelscum on February 02, 2007, 04:06:52 pm

Quote from: Czapala on February 02, 2007, 07:57:11 am

I apologize if this has been discussed or answered before.  But my quick search (before I run to class) did not give any straight forward answers.

I have Mame 1.06 [0.106] and was wondering how to configure my Spinner to work in Mame.  It is a Turbo twist set for Z axis with a trackball hooked up to the X & Y axis.  Everything, 3 buttons, trackball, and even spinner (side scroll) work in windows, so I know it works.  I just need to get it to work in mame for games like Tron and Tempest ... etc.

Is there a straight forward way? maybe in the mame.ini?...

Actually if somone could point me to a "MAME configuration for DUMMIES" site, that would help.

The cfg (or ctrlr) handle remapping inputs.  MameFAQ h03 (http://www.mame.net/mamefaq.html#h03) & h05 (http://www.mame.net/mamefaq.html#h05) goes into great detail on remapping, and that FAQ answers a lot of questions.  They may be worded differently than you wound ask them, so a quick search might not find the question, though. :-\

Basically, you would remap the dial inputs in "Input (general)" to the Z axis.


Another great info source is EasyEmu (http://www.mameworld.net/easyemu/).  An okay source comes with mame in the docs folder; windows.txt describes the options.  And if you questions, usually these forums are friendly to almost any Q.