x-arcade tankstick trackball to work with mame (centipede,etc)

ncookit

For my searches, I was unsuccessful at figuring out how to get the x-arcade tankstick trackball to work for mame games like centipede, etc. It currently works just fine for Day of the Tentacle so I know the retropie sees it.
[retropie 3.6 on a pi v3]

If there is some configuration I'm missing, can anyone point me to it?

Otherwise, if it is not working at this time, could it be considered as a feature request?

cheers.

caver01

@ncookit If the x-arcade tankstick trackball is typically recognized as a mouse, you can set it up in AdvanceMAME. Check this thread:

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/106/trackball-working-in-mame4all-but-not-advmame

seank

I have this problem as well. I tried modifying the advmame.rc as suggested, but any time the following code is present roms won't load and simply exit:

input_map[p1_trackballx] mouse[0,x] mouse[1,x] mouse[2,x]
input_map[p1_trackbally] mouse[0,y] mouse[1,y] mouse[2,y]

Any suggestions?

dankcushions

i can't help with advmame, but mice and trackballs are supported in mame2003. see https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/lr-mame2003#mousetrackballanalog-controller-support

seank

Thank you. I actually did just start playing with mame2003 but I am still having trackball problems. I tried Centipede and the trackball works in the y-axis but not the x-axis! I don't know why.

I have my Tankstick set to mode 1 which is supposed to emulate standard pc keyboard and mouse. I tried it on my Mac and the trackball does work.

Any thoughts?

dankcushions

@seank hmm, make sure this is set to disabled:
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/lr-mame2003#2-player-dialspinner-devices

if it appears as a regular mouse device it should have just worked by default.

seank

I have spent more time trying to get my trackball to work with no luck. I have plugged it into my Mac and it appears as a mouse and seems to work just fine. When I plug it into my Raspberry Pi and try it with Centipede and LR-Mame2003 the y-axis seems to work but the x-axis does nothing.

I also plugged a regular mouse into the Raspberry pi and it works as expected in Centipede, both x-axis and y-axis.

This is very frustrating.

Any more ideas anyone?