getting spinner to work in Retropie

sdepace

I have an arcade setup using Retropie and recently installed a spinner. I can't seem to find a way to map the spinner for use in Super Breakout. I have confirmed that the spinner is working and comes up as mouse 1. Super Breakout works in both mame 2000 and advmame 1.4 and works with less color in mame 2003. I've tried them all and can't seem to find how to get it to work. I tried someone post on how to configure the rc file in advance mame but that didn't work either. Anyone have any success or answers?

UDb23

@sdepace Does it work with other spinner based roms like Tempest ?
What's your interface ? Also please specify your system information and Retropie / cores version.

UDb23

Also, have you checked the wiki:https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Spinners,-Trackballs,-Lightguns,-and-other-Mouse-Devices

sdepace

@UDb23 Yes I read that but it still didn't help. I'm running retropie 4.4 with a raspberry pi 3 and Emulation Station. The spinner is by thunderstick and uses a USB board. I tested tempest and it doesn't work either. When I test in the terminal with cat, I get a response, so its working. When I load a game and hit the tab key to adjust "input this game", it doesn't see it. If I go into retroarch, I hit the bind input 1 and changed it to mouse 1 but then I still can't change the player 1 paddle left or right to the spinner....it doesn't see it.

I hope this makes sense as I'm fairly new to retropie.

Thanks

UDb23

@sdepace
did you already tried checking "retroarch-core-options” conf file in the Retroarch directory ?
It should have this setting:
mame_mouse_enable = “enabled”

sdepace

@UDb23 I just checked and yes its there mame_current_mouse_enable = "enabled"

sdepace

@sdepace do I need anything in the retroarch.cfg other than
input_player1_joypad_index = "0"
input_libretro_device_p1 = "1"
input_player1_analog_dpad_mode = "0"
input_player1_mouse_index = "2"

sdepace

@sdepace still testing and I also see when I do the cat test the spinner shows up as Mouse 1. When I do the advmame 1.4 the output is mouse 2. is this normal?

mitu

@sdepace What other devices you have connected ? If you run cat /proc/bus/input/devices, what's the output ?

sdepace

@mitu OK I finally figured it out. The spinner I bought has some dip switches that needed to be set. Without that the numbers were too small to work on retropie. Thanks for your help.

mitu

@sdepace I actually didn't do anything :), glad you got it sorted out.
Is this the spinner you have ?

UDb23

@sdepace happy to hear you solved.

sdepace

@mitu yes