MAME - how to use mouse with Arkanoid

[xevious1974]

Hi all!
I have tried to search the answer but...cannot find it!

I'd like to use my mouse in some Mame games, like Arkanoid.

I have seen in mame option that I can assign Mouse to Paddle control.

In game, under controls, it says that I can use mouse x to control. But at the end my mouse does not work...

I am a totally newbye, I ask if mouse can be used and how to set it.

Thank you for your time!

 

[sundogak]

@xevious1974I would check your MAME.INI file and look for the following header:

 

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

 

If you want a mouse to be used for dials (which is what Arkanoid used) then change the dial_device entry to mouse as follows.

dial_device               mouse

If you don't want to change all your games using dial to a mouse then you can make a separate "arkanoid.ini" file and place in your Mame INI folder.  You would simply but that one line in there and MAME will take that as priority over your main MAME.ini file but leave all other settings the same. 

Edited April 18, 2020 by sundogak

[xevious1974]

@sundogak thank you very much!

 

I had not mouse in dial_device...that was strange, I have inserted it via option in mame and saved but it wasn'nt saved...

Anyway now it is perfectly working! THANK YOU!

And ty also for the specific on the separate file, it is very interesting, if I want to create a specific ini file I have to name it like the rom?

 

In--->  # CORE INPUT OPTIONS  I have:
#

mouse                     0
joystick                  1
lightgun                  0
multikeyboard             0
multimouse                0
 

I let the value to zero?

 

Best regards and thank you again!

 

I have a question also for the wheel but I'll do a separated thread.

 

 

[Headrush69]

4 hours ago, xevious1974 said:

mouse                     1
joystick                  1
lightgun                  1
multikeyboard             0
multimouse                0

You likely want the above. This is just letting MAME you want to use those devices. The previous entries that sundogak posted tell MAME which one of your devices to use when emulating those devices in MAME. 

If you have multiple mouse devices, like a spinner, trackball, mouse, Windows normally  treats them as one single device. In that case you want to use multimouse 1 and within MAME, each device will appear as a different mouse device.