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Trackball not working when Mame launched through Launchbox


breite07

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Hello,

I'm using MAMEUI .202. When I start Centipede from MAME, my X-Arcade trackball is recognized and works great.

When I use Launchbox to start the same MAME program, I no longer have any control of my X-Arcade trackball. It doesn't respond at all.

I've messed around with the input options within Launchbox/Bigbox, but can't seem to find any setting that will fix this issue.

 

Thanks for any suggestions!

 

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Hello,

When I launch a game in MameUI .202, it starts up right away.

When I launch the same MamaUI .202 through Launchbox/Bigbox, I get a screen that shows data about the rom and then I have to hit a button to get into the actual game.

Are there command line options I should be using with Mame?  This might solve my trackball problem in my previous post as well but I don't know what the command line should be (if any).

Thanks!

 

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I see you already have this fixed from another post and were advised to do the same. Leaving the steps below in case anyone else has the issue.

If you are using MameUI as you said make sure your mame.ini file is located in the root folder of where you have the mame.exe. If it is located in the Ini folder copy and paste it into the main folder where the exe is located. 

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When I read that I thought that was it, but alas no.  Here is what I have.  CORE INPUT OPTIONS
#
coin_lockout              1
ctrlr                     
mouse                     1
joystick                  1
lightgun                  0
multikeyboard             0
multimouse                0
steadykey                 0
ui_active                 0
offscreen_reload          0
joystick_map              auto
joystick_deadzone         0.3
joystick_saturation       0.85
natural                   0
joystick_contradictory    0
coin_impulse              0

 

# CORE INPUT AUTOMATIC ENABLE OPTIONS
#
paddle_device             mouse
adstick_device            keyboard
pedal_device              keyboard
dial_device               keyboard
trackball_device          mouse
lightgun_device           keyboard
positional_device         keyboard
mouse_device              mouse

Under Properties for controllers I have : enable mouse input, enable joystick input.

under controller mapping I have Paddle, Trackball, mouse set to mouse everything else set to keyboard.

 

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Here's mine though I don't have mouse control enabled on this PC I do have it on my HTPC with an X-Arcade Tankstick with trackball.

#
# CORE INPUT OPTIONS
#
coin_lockout              1
ctrlr                     
mouse                     0
joystick                  1
lightgun                  0
multikeyboard             0
multimouse                0
steadykey                 0
ui_active                 0
offscreen_reload          0
joystick_map              auto
joystick_deadzone         0.3
joystick_saturation       0.85
natural                   0
joystick_contradictory    0
coin_impulse              0

#
# CORE INPUT AUTOMATIC ENABLE OPTIONS
#
paddle_device             keyboard
adstick_device            keyboard
pedal_device              keyboard
dial_device               keyboard
trackball_device          keyboard
lightgun_device           keyboard
positional_device         keyboard
mouse_device              mouse

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Actually, I Just enabled mouse on my setup here and did a quick test with Missile Command and it worked.

#
# CORE INPUT OPTIONS
#
coin_lockout              1
ctrlr                     
mouse                     1
joystick                  1
lightgun                  0
multikeyboard             0
multimouse                0
steadykey                 0
ui_active                 0
offscreen_reload          0
joystick_map              auto
joystick_deadzone         0.3
joystick_saturation       0.85
natural                   0
joystick_contradictory    0
coin_impulse              0

#
# CORE INPUT AUTOMATIC ENABLE OPTIONS
#
paddle_device             keyboard
adstick_device            keyboard
pedal_device              keyboard
dial_device               keyboard
trackball_device          keyboard
lightgun_device           keyboard
positional_device         keyboard
mouse_device              mouse

2018-10-17 01_48_56-MAME_ Missile Command (rev 3) [missile].jpg

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So it turns out the ONE game I was trying was the problem. I matched my ini settings with my older version of Mame in Hyperspin and changed the mapping in Mame instead of the individual game and it still did not work, but then I tried centipede and it worked. I went back to Golden Tee and tried other year versions and everyone worked. Go Figure. LOL!

Thanks for help.

 

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  • 2 months later...

I have followed this thread and I am not getting success.  I am hoping someone can help me.  Here is my config from the mame.ini file  I have tried changing the Mouse to a 1 but when I launch anything with the trackball in Launchbox the trackball does not work.  Really wanting to get Golden Tee up and running.  Works fine in Maximus Arcade.

#
# CORE INPUT OPTIONS
#
coin_lockout              1
ctrlr                     X-Arcade
mouse                     0
joystick                  1
lightgun                  0
multikeyboard             0
multimouse                0
steadykey                 0
ui_active                 0
offscreen_reload          0
joystick_map              auto
joystick_deadzone         0.3
joystick_saturation       0.85
natural                   0
joystick_contradictory    0
coin_impulse              0

#
# CORE INPUT AUTOMATIC ENABLE OPTIONS
#
paddle_device             keyboard
adstick_device            keyboard
pedal_device              keyboard
dial_device               keyboard
trackball_device          keyboard
lightgun_device           keyboard
positional_device         keyboard
mouse_device              mouse
 

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