Setup RetroArch to redirect MAME games that use Dial and Trackball to Arcade-X Tankstick Trackball

GuruChoc

Thanks a lot for your excellent post, will try it shortly.

Hopefully it may also help me figure out how to get my Tank stick work correctly under mame for 2 player simultaneous games like Bubble Bobble and Sonson and Tonton for example. I can add credits, player one won't start, add another credit and player two will start by itself, but uses the player one joystick to control player 2, very strange.

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mitu

Don't forget @caver's great doc page in the Wiki - https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Spinners,-Trackballs,-Lightguns,-and-other-Mouse-Devices

caver01

Thanks for the mention, but @ markwkidd contributed the more recent updates to retroarch/mame2003. Lots of analog love to share now. Also, don't forget about Advancemame. If you are playing Tempest, Major Havoc, Omega Race, lunar lander, or any other vector games with trackball/spinners, you will get much better vector lines in HD using Advancemame, and mouse support has always been great (though you do need to configure it).

GuruChoc

Thanks for the info guys, I'll have a read.

Most people who have setup the tankstick play single player games, they don't seem to play games where two people can play on the same screen at the same time :( As I said single player mode works fine.

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caver01

@guruchoc said in Setup RetroArch to redirect MAME games that use Dial and Trackball to Arcade-X Tankstick Trackball:

Hopefully it may also help me figure out how to get my Tank stick work correctly under mame for 2 player simultaneous games like Bubble Bobble and Sonson and Tonton for example. I can add credits, player one won't start, add another credit and player two will start by itself, but uses the player one joystick to control player 2, very strange.

That is strange. Are you using the x-arcade driver that supposedly sets up double gamepad devices? I guess it effectively splits the tankstick into two controllers via software. If you are not using it, that might be what you need to do.

GuruChoc

@caver01 x-arcade driver ? Not sure, I have compiled as per this video

is that what you mean ??

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caver01

@guruchoc Sorry, i am not in a position to watch the video right now, but I was referring to the x-arcade driver that is described here:
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/X-Arcade

GuruChoc

@caver01 ah, not seen that one, I'll give it a whirl soon, thanks.

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GuruChoc

@caver01 Tried that, both sticks recognised now, but still the joysticks are swapped around control wise for any game where you can play two players at once, I'll do some more reding.

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GuruChoc

@guruchoc I installed Xarcade2Jstick via the retropie menu, that seemed to do the trick, I can play Bubble Bobble to my hearts content, thanks for the help.

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