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PC trackball, as a controller, not a mouse?


mothergoose729

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I have been looking for months but I haven't been able to find a trackball controller, compatible with the PC, that registers input as a controller (so dinput or xinput ideally), not as a mouse. 

Does anyone know where I can find something like that? The closest thing I have found is an atari 2600 trackball with an adapter. It will work, but I would prefer something a bit newer and less expensive. In a perfect world it would also have three hardware buttons. 

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Likely not unless you want to design your own hack or look up a dedicated arcade supplier for a cabinet unit. If you do want to roll your own, this is your microcontroller: https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/

Otherwise, you'd have to figure out how to map a trackball mouse device to the game/emulator you want to use and couple it with an interpreter like Joy2Key, xpadder, or pinnacle game profiler.

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