FBAlpha, support Mouse?

sk8ersublime · 9 Dec 2016, 04:06

I am trying to get FBAlpha to work with my trackball cabinet as it seems to have a more accurate MAME support. The website for FBAlpha states that it should support keyboard and mouse, however I cannot for the life of me get the mouse to show up as an option in the User Input in the RetroArch menu.

Has anyone been able to achieve this? The trackball is working as a mouse when I test it in the console.

edmaul69 · 9 Dec 2016, 05:30

@sk8ersublime you might have to use the standalone non retroarch version for it to work.

sk8ersublime · 9 Dec 2016, 16:19

Yea, I was hoping it would work since mame2003 is working fine with the trackball. Hoping someone had been able to get it to work. I guess I will need to just use a mixture of both EMUs unfortunately

Marcoqwerty · 26 May 2018, 16:38

@edmaul69 said in FBAlpha, support Mouse?:

@sk8ersublime you might have to use the standalone non retroarch version for it to work.

What is the standalone version? i have the same issue to play with my spinner (mouse X axis) with lr-fba

OliB · 12 Dec 2018, 07:30

No chance to get mouse/trackball running @ current version lr-fbalpha (FB Alpha v0.2.97.43 5e771b0). I've read somewhere a lr-fbalpha (FB Alpha v0.2.97.44 Version should work with mouse trackball - but I couldn't find a ready to use update..

mitu · 12 Dec 2018, 17:42

@OliB If you install/update the lr-fbalpha package from the RetroPie-Setup menu, it will get you v0.2.97.44 - even though the title says v0.2.97.44. Alternatively, you can update from source and this will get your the latest version available. Note that you'll need a compatible ROM set for the new version, so make sure you have the right ROMs for this new version.

OliB · 13 Dec 2018, 06:42

@mitu said in FBAlpha, support Mouse?:

v0.2.97.44

THX. But I couldn't find the correct lr-fbalpha...44 Romset... I've to search more intensive before I do the update...

barbudreadmon · 13 Dec 2018, 09:43

@OliB Your best bet is to build it with clrmamepro from MAME & HBMAME 0.204 romsets, you won't find a ready to use fba 0.2.97.44 romset.

Clyde · 13 Dec 2018, 10:18

@mitu said in FBAlpha, support Mouse?:

it will get you v0.2.97.44 - even though the title says v0.2.97.44.

Shouldn't the numbers be different, or do I misunderstand you? :)

barbudreadmon · 13 Dec 2018, 11:12

@Clyde i think he means it is a pre-release, notice the - behind. That's also why you won't find ready to use fba 0.2.97.44 romsets yet. Best practice if you want to be able to build any mame/fba romset with clrmamepro is to have latest MAME/HBMAME roms + rollback roms. They aren't hard to find, however it's about 100Go of data.

Clyde · 13 Dec 2018, 13:26

@barbudreadmon Ah, ok. I thought it to be a dash to separate both statements.

OliB · 13 Dec 2018, 16:04

@barbudreadmon

I never had done this before - No experience with that.... So I'll try to get informations... Especially searching the necessary Tools for MAC .

barbudreadmon · 13 Dec 2018, 16:46

@OliB said in FBAlpha, support Mouse?:

Especially searching the necessary Tools for MAC

clrmamepro works through wine (https://www.howtogeek.com/263211/how-to-run-windows-programs-on-a-mac-with-wine/)

OliB · 14 Dec 2018, 07:45

@barbudreadmon
THX , I already know that. Meanwhile I've setup a VM with Win10. I 'll try clrmamepro.
THX a lot....

OliB · 14 Dec 2018, 07:48

@barbudreadmon

Okay. If I understand it correct: First, I need 0.204 romset and then "convert" them by using clrmamepro, correct?

THX

barbudreadmon · 14 Dec 2018, 08:22

@OliB said in FBAlpha, support Mouse?:

First, I need 0.204 romset and then "convert" them by using clrmamepro, correct?

Yes.

And the HBMAME romset is only necessary if you are interested in homebrews & hacks.

OliB · 14 Dec 2018, 08:27

@barbudreadmon said in FBAlpha, support Mouse?:

@OliB said in FBAlpha, support Mouse?:

First, I need 0.204 romset and then "convert" them by using clrmamepro, correct?

Yes.

And the HBMAME romset is only necessary if you are interested in homebrews & hacks.

Thx again. I 'll give it a try over weekend.

Clyde · 14 Dec 2018, 09:33

@OliB said in FBAlpha, support Mouse?:

Okay. If I understand it correct: First, I need 0.204 romset and then "convert" them by using clrmamepro, correct?

And you may also need a "rollback" set for 0.204 that contains all roms from older versions that were replaced, modified or removed in newer versions (edit: an older rollback set may work, since it will be only missing the deprecated roms up to 0.204).

barbudreadmon · 14 Dec 2018, 10:17

@Clyde said in FBAlpha, support Mouse?:

And you may also need a "rollback" set for 0.204 that contains all roms from older versions that were replaced, modified or removed in newer versions

That's true if you want to build a romset for an old version of mame, however, theoretically, fbalpha only use the newest romsets.

Clyde · 14 Dec 2018, 10:53

@barbudreadmon Yes, if I read the release notes for fba 0.2.97.43 correctly, it supports the roms for mame 0.197. I didn't find such information for 0.2.97.44, though.

Lacking deeper knowledge about fba, I just wanted to mention the rollback sets in case some of their content is needed nonetheless.