Can't get groovy mame to notice lightgun or any mouse devices

[Segaboy7]

Hi all

I've seen this has kinda been addressed in some other posts but
Haven't seen a solution.  Groovy mame refuses to notice any mouse devices even after turning on mouse in the settings.  I want mouse devices to work so I can use my Retro Shooter Reaper on Groovy Mame. By default It sees it as a keyboard.  I can get it to work as a joystick but it doesn't work well.  I even have a .CFG file in the crtl folder that shows it how it supposed to be assigned and still wont work, and yes I edited the .ini to tell it to use it.  Regular Mame it works fine but Groovy Mame refuses to see any mice devices.  I'm at work right now and will add photos later of how it's reading devices.  This is Groovy Mame 0261 but the newest version is doing the same.

My specs are

Windows 11
Amd R9 390x using CRT Emu driver
Amd 3600
16gb ram

[haynor666]

You could try to change mouseprovider to dinput or win32

[purbeast]

I know this is an old thread but I had an issue getting my mouse to be recognized by groovyMAME as well even though I had everything to mouse.

What fixed my issue was in the Input config, it had multiple controls set for the X-axis.  It was set to Joy X or Mouse X or something else.

I pressed delete to remove everything, and then I reset it to JUST have Mouse X in there.  I did the same for the Y direction.

After doing that, the mouse worked fine. This was for light gun games I was having this issue.  I was actually trying to get my mouse to work so I could calibrate it with the mouse, then switch everything back to joystick, which my light gun registers as.

Maybe give that a try, if this is still relevant, since this thread is pretty old.