Tankstick -Why no trigger on joystick? Re: Mame / Marble Madness / Trackball?

jonceramic wrote:
On Oct 6, 10:31 pm, David Rogoff <da...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
mundom...@xxxxxxx wrote:
> If you can use your regular mouse in the game but not the trackball,
> try this from the X-arcade website.

> 6. Trackball: If you have another mouse/touchpad connected to the PC,
> you may need to make the X-Arcade™ Trackball the default mouse. The
> easiest way to do this is to disable the other mouse/touchpad in
> Device Manager (The X-Arcade™ Trackball shows up as "Samsung" mouse),
> then re-enable it. If you have a USB mouse, you can simply unplug it,
> reboot, and then plug it back in again. Otherwise you will need to
> change all of the default mouse buttons and movements to the X-Arcade™
> Trackball manually.

> Here is what they say to enable using a mouse....

> 4. In MAME™, open Options (at the top), then "Default Game Options",
> select the "Game Controllers" tab; and set your "Default input layout"
> to "X-Arcade"™ from the drop-down list.
> ***(on this same tab, click the box to "Enable Mouse Support" for
> trackball use).***

Thanks to you and Philip for the help. It's now working! Is there a
good site with a list of MAME controller settings for different games?
I'm now trying Lost Tomb and am stuck. It should be like Robotron: one
joystick controls movement and the other "fires." I know the default on
the TankStick is for the left joystick (in numlock mode) to be keypad
2,4,6,8 and for the right one to be f,d,r,g, but those don't do anything
in the game.

Thanks again,

David

David, you just hit "tab" and map it to each game. It's standard and
built into every version of MAME. Don't worry about what mode or
anything.

Input (This game) is your friend....
http://strategywiki.org/wiki/MAME/Playing

Thanks Jon.

I thought that's how to do it, but the PC I was using acts really weird and won't do anything when I hit enter after selecting the mapping! On my other PCs it works fine. Very strange.

Anyway, now that that works, I'm left with having to modify my TankStick. Why didn't they use joysticks with fire/trigger buttons????? One of the main reasons I bought this thing was for multi-joystick games, but it sucks. If I'm playing Battlezone, I have to keep moving my hand off one of the joysticks to fire. If I'm playing Tron, it's the same: one hand is on a joystick and the other is on the trackball. What were they thinking?

Has anyone modded the joysticks to add trigger buttons tied in parallel with a couple of the other buttons?

David
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