How to get Trackball working in BB?

[pman555]

I have done everything I can find online regarding updating the mame.ini file to turn in mouse for trackball and multi mouse, etc. 

 

the odd thing is that I am unable to manually set the x axis and y axis for my mouse when launching Mame from within BigBox, but I am able to set it when I launch Mame on its own. 
 

either way, when I launch a game like Golden Tee 2k from BigBox, the trackball doesn’t seem to be recognized. 
 

any advice? Thanks b

[keithhov]

Someone will likely give you a better answer, but there should be no difference in any controls in mame when you launch from bigbox or when you launch mame on its own..........make sure you don't have multiple versions of mame installed, verify the mame version that bigbox uses is the same as the one that works on its own is where I would start....

[pman555]

Bumping. 
Still can’t seem to get the trackball working in mame games. 

[JoeViking245]

Here's a related post about setting up a trackball with Marble Madness.  I wasn't able to set the X and Y axis using the trackball either. But what I found was, it works with MAME's defaults.  I did need to adjust the sensitivities for that game. (but pretty sure that one is game specific)

 

[keithhov]

I have a trackball and spinner on mame on one cabinet,  and a mouse pc..........minimally somewhere there is an option to enable multiple mice in mame.....somewhere you have to tell Mame to use a mouse as a trackball.... you can edit the config file manually, but i just change the settings in mame menu and make sure to save settings....I would post screen shots but it really depends on if you have older mame or newer mame.

[pman555]

2 hours ago, JoeViking245 said:

Here's a related post about setting up a trackball with Marble Madness.  I wasn't able to set the X and Y axis using the trackball either. But what I found was, it works with MAME's defaults.  I did need to adjust the sensitivities for that game. (but pretty sure that one is game specific)

 

I appreciate the response, but its not working.  I feel like i'm going to pull my hair out.  I feel like i've done everything that i've found online, including editing the config file to enable mouse, multimouse, etc.

While trying to edit the inputs in Mame via BB, it doesn't even recognize the trackball when trying to set the X and Y, even though it already says "mouse X" and "mouse Y".

The fact that the trackball isn't even being recognized within Mame feels like a hint, but I've manually enabled trackball as mouse countless times.

 

Could an issue be that I'm not playing in as an admin user in windows?  

[JoeViking245]

13 minutes ago, pman555 said:

Could an issue be that I'm not playing in as an admin user in windows?  

No. You should never need to run an emulator or LB/BB as admin. In fact, don't do it.

Re-reading your thread, to clarify...

the issue is when you launch an Arcade game from Big Box and while in-game, you TAB into MAME's menu, you can't set any inputs using the trackball.  But if you start stand-alone MAME, load a game, TAB into the menu while in-game, you can map the trackball.

If you do the latter (and everything's ok), when you launch the game from BB, are the in-games controls working?  As in you can play the game with the desired controls?

[pman555]

11 minutes ago, JoeViking245 said:

No. You should never need to run an emulator or LB/BB as admin. In fact, don't do it.

Re-reading your thread, to clarify...

the issue is when you launch an Arcade game from Big Box and while in-game, you TAB into MAME's menu, you can't set any inputs using the trackball.  But if you start stand-alone MAME, load a game, TAB into the menu while in-game, you can map the trackball.

If you do the latter (and everything's ok), when you launch the game from BB, are the in-games controls working?  As in you can play the game with the desired controls?

Basically yes. 
Except for some reason I’m unable to launch games from Mame. I moved them to the launchbox folder for organization, maybe that’s why?

[JoeViking245]

25 minutes ago, pman555 said:

Basically yes. 
Except for some reason I’m unable to launch games from Mame. I moved them to the launchbox folder for organization, maybe that’s why?

MAME doesn't know where you ROMs are.  When you launch the game(s) from LB/BB, the command line parameter -rompath %romlocation% is passed to MAME and the %romlocation% is replace by LB/BB with the path to the ROM you're launching.  Essentially telling MAME where that ROM is located.

That said, you can't (at this point) set the individual games' controls from within MAME.

To launch games directly from MAME...

• Open MAME
• go into General Settings - Configure Folders
• Select ROMs
• Select Add Folder
• Select the drive your LB is on
• Select down to /LaunchBox/Games/Arcade/
  • assuming that's where your ROMs are
• Press TAB so set [the folder]
  • e.g. here, 2 folders are set
  • 
• Return to Previous Menu
• Press Escape
• Select Save Settings
• Press Escape to close that menu

Now, on the left panel (still in MAME's UI), click on Available.  You should see the games that you have in LaunchBox.  You can now launch the game directly from MAME and test to see if you can TAB into MAME's menu and set the trackball.

Hope that all makes sense.

If you are unable to set/map them there, it stands to reason, you won't be able to do it when launching the game from Big Box.