Since you're going to use win98...


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Posted by u_rebelscum on 21, 2001 at 1:46 AM:

In Reply to: Help on what to do posted by Tom Wende on 19, 2001 at 7:33 PM:

I'm of a little different angle here. Multiple panels is a good idea, but your panel doesn't sound too "busy".

Fitting 4 trackballs + 4 joysticks + buttons will either be a tight squeeze or a big panel, but your panel doesn't sound that bad (besides changing player 3 & 4 to four buttons).

My trackball points rely on you using my Analog+ mame ( http://rain.prohosting.com/urebel/download.html). It allows mame to see and use the 4 trackballs, and requires win98 or winMe (so this would restrict which frontends you could use), and USB trackballs. Official mame can only see one "mouse" (all mice data are combined) in windows, and two in dos if you set up your mouse drivers correctly.

Not many games need 4 trackballs. Rampart uses 3 trackballs; many more use 2, Cabal and Marble Madness are examples.

However, you could use the trackballs in place of analog joysticks or spinners as well as for trackballs.
And the trackballs won't get in the way like spinners or extra joysticks would.

Like others said, I'd use a keyboard encoder. To use the multiple trackballs you would need USB trackballs (+ my Analog+ mame).

FYI, I'm building a 2 player, with trigger joysticks, 2 triggers per joystick, 2+2 buttons per player (2 on each side of joystick), + one spinner panel. In the future I want to build: a 4 player panel (like your's minus the trackballs), a 3 trackball panel (for all trackball games), a 2 or 3 spinner panel, a 3 steering wheel (360 degree) panel, and a 270 degree steering wheel/360 degree wheel/analog yokestick-3 pedal-4 gear-1 throttle sit down cabient, but (if you couldn't tell) these are all in the dream faze right now. And only the 4 player one works well with the official mame; the rest need inprovements in mame's analog input handling (thus, why I'm working on my Analog+ version of mame)

: Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help me on how to build my MAME cabinet. I don't have any trouble with the cabinet, but I don't know what to use for my controls interface. I want to have it be 4 players, where each player gets a joystick and a trackball and 6 buttons. I'm not sure if i'm supposed to use a keyboard hack or what. The system I'm putting it on is fairly new and has USB ports. Also, what MAME program should I run and what front-end should I run on the system, which will be running Windows 98SE

: Your help would be greatly appreciated




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