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    Tankstick Trackball Not Working in advmame

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    • caver01C
      caver01 @mgrabow
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      @mgrabow Why are you opening a new thread as a reply to the post you cited?

      Trackball works great in AdvanceMAME if you configure it properly, but it has also worked in lr-mame2003 for a long time. It works even better now, due to recent updates. Check the wiki page which walks you through the details.

      Now, the real problem is using a third-party image. As soon as you run into trouble, nobody can help you because none of us know what X-arcade might be doing with their image (over and above just violating the license agreements). They obviously have a configuration they think works with their hardware, but there is no way to know what else could be going on.

      My 4-player cocktail style cabinet built as a custom "roadcase"

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        mgrabow @caver01
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        @caver01 Thanks. the trackball test proved good.

        But there are some assumptions made on the users skill level in the retroarch part...

        *Configuring RetroArch emulators for multi-mouse use

        Input Drivers: As of September 2017, there is only one RetroArch input driver for Linux with support for multi-mouse: udev.
        Determining mice index numbers

        Make sure that your RetroArch input driver is set to udev
        Start a RetroArch emulator with the option --verbose to generate a detailed log. Verbose mode is selected via the runcommand
        The resulting log is saved to /dev/shm/runcommand.log*
        

        make sure it is set to udev? how?

        start retroarch with the option __verbose.. How

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        • caver01C
          caver01 @mgrabow
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          @mgrabow You can enable verbose logging using the Runcommand. I dunno where you would set UDEV. I have never had to do so. I expect it is the default on a Pi, but RetroPie gets used on other platforms, so perhaps that note is there for folks who might have done something non-standard.

          My 4-player cocktail style cabinet built as a custom "roadcase"

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            mgrabow @caver01
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            @caver01 been googling it.. not sure how to start retroarch using the "runcommand"

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              mgrabow
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              figured it out....Needed to set the mouse index to "0" in opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

              did this in notepad from winscp.

              cant for the life of me remember how I set to retroarch to run in verbose. I stumbled on a menu for that but cant find it..

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              • mituM
                mitu Global Moderator @mgrabow
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                @mgrabow It's in the Runcommand launch menu, see the https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Runcommand/#runcommand-launch-menu page. There is an option called Launch with verbose loggingin the list, choose that option when running the ROM and then check the /dev/shm/runcommand.log from WinSCP while the ROM is running.

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                • caver01C
                  caver01 @mgrabow
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                  @mgrabow said in Tankstick Trackball Not Working in advmame:

                  @caver01 been googling it.. not sure how to start retroarch using the "runcommand"

                  You gotta check the links and read that documentation. See how my reply had Runcommand in blue? I gave you a link to the documentation mitu cited above. I makes no sense for me to explain Runcommand when it is all written better in the documentation.

                  My 4-player cocktail style cabinet built as a custom "roadcase"

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                    mgrabow @caver01
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                    @caver01 I appreciate the help and I did read the link and did not find what I needed.

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                    • caver01C
                      caver01 @mgrabow
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                      @mgrabow Did you try using Runcommand at launch, and in the menu that appears, enabling verbose mode?

                      My 4-player cocktail style cabinet built as a custom "roadcase"

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                        mgrabow @caver01
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                        @caver01 I had mentioned before that I was able to find it in one of the menus but I cant for the life of me find it again... verbose mode appears no where the link several people have refered be to. I was successful in getting the trackball to work. Now I am just documenting how I did it. I just cant find that launch in verbose mode...

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                        • caver01C
                          caver01 @mgrabow
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                          @mgrabow It is in the popup menu when you use Runcommand.

                          My 4-player cocktail style cabinet built as a custom "roadcase"

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                          • caver01C
                            caver01 @mgrabow
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                            @mgrabow said in Tankstick Trackball Not Working in advmame:

                            verbose mode appears no where the link several people have refered be to.

                            The option is in the Runcommand menu, but the screenshot/example of that menu is likely old and does not show that choice as an example. However, if you use Runcommand, L "Launch with verbose logging" is an option.

                            My 4-player cocktail style cabinet built as a custom "roadcase"

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