AdvanceMame and Mouse/Trackball

Lamaman1971

Hey Folks, I know this has been done to death (if you search I started a thread many moons ago on the same topic) Anyway - after a break from RetroPie I came back to it and Im struggling with AdvanceMame 1.4 again - my trackball isnt working!

Here are the pertanent parts of my config from the /opt/... .rc file :

device_mouse raw
device_raw_firstkeyhack no
device_raw_mousedev[0] /dev/input/mouse0
device_raw_mousedev[1] /dev/input/mouse1
device_raw_mousedev[2] /dev/input/mouse2
device_raw_mousedev[3] auto
device_raw_mousetype[0] ps2
device_raw_mousetype[1] ps2
device_raw_mousetype[2] ps2
device_raw_mousetype[3] pnp

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

(ive cat /dev/input/mouse0 and its definitely mouse0). I have tried addiding the full plethora of mouse[0,x] mouse[1,x] etc etc too.

Anyone got any thoughts? Whats changed? Im stumped. Ive tried USB Mice, Trackpads and my trackball - advancemame seems to be ignoring me! lol

Any help, as always, gratefully received,

Mark

Lamaman1971

This is now resolved.

Chitownsparky

How did you get it resolved?I am having issues with my trackball also

caver01

@Chitownsparky If you haven't gone through it, the Spinners and Trackballs wiki takes all of the important/relevant details from multiple posts and compiles them into a detailed step-by-step that explains everything, especially for using AdvanceMAME.

Lamaman1971

Ok - the Wiki is fine and explains everything you need for AdvanceMame. The issue was all of my own making..

In advanceMame's TAB menu I was looking to configure analogue X and Y for games such as Missile Command etc but no matter what I did it wouldnt see Mouse0 - or any mouse type HID device in Mame. However, had I tried to actually USE the trackball in the game, irrespective of this, I would have found it was working perfectly! Very Embarrassing.

The changes described in the WIKI for the AdvanceMame.RC config files are spot on - no question. Just dont forget to modify both if you plan to use both versions of the emulator.

caver01

@Lamaman1971 said in AdvanceMame and Mouse/Trackball:

In advanceMame's TAB menu I was looking to configure analogue X and Y for games such as Missile Command etc but no matter what I did it wouldnt see Mouse0 - or any mouse type HID device in Mame. However, had I tried to actually USE the trackball in the game, irrespective of this, I would have found it was working perfectly!

It's good feedback, actually. I tried to write that wiki to be as clear and thorough as possible. You can definitely make your sensitivity adjustments in the GUI, but I should add to the description that you won't be able to make any mouse selections there--just know that they do work if properly configured in the .rc file. That's worth adding, as it might have saved you some time.

Lamaman1971

@caver01 I dunno - at some point I must have configured it like that - a year or so ago.....I guess most sensible folks would try the mouse out in the game itself before hacking through the advancemame config over and over! ....nvm