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    Mouse/spinner activation

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      Hawkeye448
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      Hello all.

      Can anyone help re as im really tearing my hair out over this now. I just cannot figure out how I activate a mouse or a spinner.

      Found a few how to's on the net but none of them seem to be succesful for me.

      Ive got a Ultimark spinner through an I-Pac and the closest to success i get is once typing cat/dev/input/mice on the PI is a left and right twist of the spinner does react with digits coming up on the screen. Evidently the spinner can be seen and its Mouse 1.

      Also a normal PC mouse will react also

      Appreciate only select Mames can use spinners. lb-Mame2003 (is that also known as Mame Liberto?) and Advance mame 94 but I enter what is required in the configs -rc for the suggested MAMEs but none of them end up seeing a Spinner in the games Tab inputs area when twisting the dial. Am i missing another activation process somewhere?

      Once this is done ive also got a trackball to do which I thought would act identically to the mouse but that one isn't reacting inside cat/dev/input/mice.

      Lastly, I have a double potentiometered DIY star wars yoke using the board of an aged sidewinder joystick. I dare say a download of drivers will required on that one but does anyone know if it would be physically possible for the PI to cope with that?

      Many thanks

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        Hawkeye448
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        Hi.

        Can I beg for someone's assistance here. Im spending hour after hour on the internet trying to figure out how to do this. No joy

        I have got to the point where I can see all of my USB devices are in the lsusb list . That's a mouse, spinner a racing wheel and the Sidewinder joystick board in the star wars yoke. I have got a trackball as well but I think that's hopelessly analogue and its not findable. I will not worry about that so much.

        I just cannot figure out what the next stage is. How to activate all these things. Can someone please tell me how its done?

        many thanks

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          rbaker @Hawkeye448
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          @hawkeye448

          https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Spinners,-Trackballs,-Lightguns,-and-other-Mouse-Devices

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