New start Trackball & spinner help

[Lupin]

Raspberry pi 4 (Retropie 4.7)
Raspbery Pi Imager V1.4: RetroPie 4.7.1 (RPI 4/400)
ultimarc U-HID Full Keyboard & Gamepad (including analog and digital controls)
SpinTrak USB

Starting with basic RetroPie image (See above) adding only advmame & Mame2010 & 3 roms.
Mouse index as tested in shell showing as 2. Mouse in RetroArch menu showing as on/enabled.
Working fine with tempest under advancemame V3.9
Testing arkanoid & centiped (2010 & lr-fbneo) but no luck..

Looked at these topics for more information:
"Setup RetroArch to redirect MAME games that use Dial and Trackball to Arcade-X Tankstick Trackball "
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/15819
&
"Using spinner and trackball on Pi4 mame2003"
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/25771

Still no luck.

Odd thing is when I open RetroArch menu to check mouse index and mouse setting. You can move pointer with trackball & spinner.

This problem with trackball & spinner driving me crazy.

Can anyone tell me where I going wrong?
Starting with basic image from this web site, can someone give me steps to take to get trackball & spinner working with Mame2010 or fbneo (Which ever easier)?

P.S. Wonder if mame2010 problem might be use to change in commands:
mame2010_mame_current_mouse_enable = "enabled"
mame2010-mame_current_mouse_enable = "enabled"
Use of "_" or "-"?

[barbudreadmon]

@lupin Aside from the RetroArch basic mouse/trackball configuration, FBNeo requires you to set the appropriate device type in Quick Menu > Controls, more information at https://github.com/libretro/FBNeo/tree/master/src/burner/libretro#mapping

[IanDaemon]

Have those individual ROMs been corrupted?

[Lupin]

@barbudreadmon
HALLELUJAH success.
Thanks for information.
For some reason shell shows mouse index as 2, but only works when you set RetroArch main menu/options/input/User Input Binds User 1 Mouse index TO 5?

Setting mouse index per game. Where does setting need to be saved and file format?

[toto2000]

Hi we wrote a complete guide on how to setup both a spinner and a trackball at the same time, so that the configurations are persistent and will apply to a whole game folder.
The idea is to set up a default retroarch config for mame/fbneo that will configure one of these devices as the default mouse (for example, the trackball), and create then just a file for rom folders that will be spinner specific.

For example, you have a roms/mame folder -> all games in there will work with the trackball by default, thanks to the global default config. Then you have roms/mame/spinner then for this folder, you will have to generate a retroarch "content configuration file" that will apply just for this folder, and set the mouse_index to the one of the spinner.

Trap: the retroarch menu will not let you save mouse_index configs, but will create the config files. You will have to add manually a line with player1_mouse_index = 2 for example...

We wrote a detailed guide (in french, use deepl.com to translate) with screenshots, etc. And we use it on several Retropie arcade cabinet that we built, that have both trackball and spinner in the control panel.

• Trackball and Spinner persistent configuration guide HOWTO (Google Doc, french)