How to launch Neatmouse with certain games.

[Paul Allen]

Hi, I've spent the last month building a launchbox front end for an arcade cabinet i've built and it's working pretty good so far. But i'm not sure how to implement Neatmouse with certain games in Supermodel and Model2 emulator so the light gun cursor can be controlled with the joystick, i've come across Neatmouse that looks like it may do this if I configure the controls correctly. I'm running an iPac2 board in standard Mame keyboard config so I think Neatmouse looks like I should be able to map the joystick keys to cursor movement. I just need to know how to add this to additional apps so it launches with the game and closes on exit. Or would I need to run an Auto hotkey script?

[fromlostdays]

I'm not sure what neatmouse is and I don't use an iPac, but if neatmouse is just a program you need to run at the start of a game, you would use additional apps.

• Right click the game, click "Edit"
• Go to the additional apps tab
• Go to "Add Application"
• Name it (Whatever you want)
• Point to the neatmouse exe and check "run before main applacation".

That will launch the EXE before the game launches.

However, I don't think closing the game will close it. For that you will have to use an AHK (I think) and that's a little above my head. 

 

 

Edited February 6, 2020 by fromlostdays

[Headrush69]

Since Neatmouse has several key options for enabling, why not just set it to run at startup, and than in WiniPac set a shift key to one of those activation keys?

I don't use Neatmouse myself, but I'm guessing you will need to set fairly high acceleration if available to make using a joystick instead of a mouse feel somewhat decent.

[Paul Allen]

I worked it out in the end but cheers for your help. Neat mouse wasn't smooth enough with the cursor movement so I tried mousefighter instead and that worked a treat. Just had to write an ahk script to launch it and activate it straight away, then add it as an additional app to run on launch of certain games. I can now play Sega model 2 light gun games with the model 2 emulator using my joystick. 

I'm trying to get my cabinet working so I don't have to press different keys to activate things in certain games, I just want to be able to press play, have the game load up and all the controls just work.