Mame - Use mouse control for trackball, light gun and dial games

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Күн бұрын

Arcade cabinets used some specialist controls such as trackballs, light guns, spinners, dials, etc. to make certain games play more naturally. By default Mame mimics these with keyboard or joystick inputs making the games unplayable.
In this video I'll show you how to set up your mouse to emulate these controls so you can play classics such as Missile Command, Arkanoid and Operation Wolf with ease.
Don't forget to check out my main website for more hints and tips.
bytesnbits.co.uk/mame-mouse-c...
0:00 Introduction
1:18 Mapping your mouse as a trackball, light gun, etc.
8:22 Making sure everything is connected in Mame
11:10 Some demo games - Arkanoid, Operation Wolf, Super Sprint

Пікірлер: 65

@tomconklinvo Жыл бұрын

Hey man! Your videos have taken my retro gaming to an entire new level. Thank you!!!!!!!

@BytesNBits Жыл бұрын

Glad to help!

@tomconklinvo Жыл бұрын

@@BytesNBits By the way, have you done or will you do any game-specific input device videos? There are few games that back in the day utilized more than one joystick or sometimes a steering wheel with a gas pedal, etc. Some have given me fits recently including Crazy Climber, Battle Zone, and Hang-on. Thanks again!

@groichster Жыл бұрын

Excellent as always. I've missed out on a few favourites in MAME as the result of poorly configured controls; this will help :)

@BytesNBits Жыл бұрын

There are a lot of great games that need the mouse. Good to hear you're now playing them.

@aca0808 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for this helpful video!!! I am using MAME for years and always struggling to play those kind of iconic arcade games such as Centipede (trackball device), now when I watch your video closely it is very simple to set it all up and enjoy all those bunch of arcade games!!! 10/10 for this video!!! Cheers mate!!! Sub&Like 👍👍👍✅✅✅✅

@BytesNBits 8 ай бұрын

You're very welcome! Have fun!

@JackalGB Жыл бұрын

Just like how you explained it to me last week. 😄👍 The mouse makes a huge difference. I'm thinking of going one step further and buying a trackball mouse. One that has the trackball in the middle, so it can controlled with the fingers. It might be a decent substitute for the spinner/dial controller too. 😄

@BytesNBits Жыл бұрын

That sounds like a good option. You might find it's not quite as responsive for the light gun games though. If you try it out please let me know how you get on. I was actually looking at them as well this week. There are also arcade trackball modules on eBay for about half the price. No mouse buttons but probably a better gaming trackball.

@JoesGuy 11 ай бұрын

Ugh! Thank you so much. Been trying to map Alien 3 to my mouse in vain up to this point.

@BytesNBits 11 ай бұрын

Glad it helped

@Mr_x_19922 7 ай бұрын

Thx a lot, I wasn't able to find that menu at 4:07

@BytesNBits 7 ай бұрын

You might be using an older version of Mame. Some earlier versions don't have a Mame control panel.

@COZ-1973 Жыл бұрын

Excellent. Thank you.

@BytesNBits Жыл бұрын

You are welcome!

@videoforgeeks Жыл бұрын

I was going crazy not having my spinner working on my Launchbox/Tankstick setup! Thank you for your video explaining the process! Worked like a charm!

@BytesNBits Жыл бұрын

Great! Glad it helped.

@austinmaclean801 Жыл бұрын

I wonder why this didn't work for me on my tankstick.

@ecwnikos Жыл бұрын

i love youre intro.

@BytesNBits Жыл бұрын

Thanks

@dalwindersingh2322 2 ай бұрын

Thank you. Please, could you do a similar video for setting up the controls on Retrobat?

@BytesNBits 2 ай бұрын

I did do a RetroBat video a few weeks ago. Have a look at that.

@frankom8245 Жыл бұрын

Great video and easy to follow. Do you no how to get 2 mouse working for games like point blank? I'd love to play 2 player light guns games. Thanks

@BytesNBits Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure if Mame can handle two mice!

@frankom8245 Жыл бұрын

@@BytesNBits I can confirm you can I tried it recently after watching some KZfaq videos and some trial and error I managed to get 2 wiimotes and 2 dolphin bars up and running for 2 player. Mame has a setting for multimice and some settings for light gun so I tried a few things and it worked. Shame the batteries on my wiimotes didn't charge so well. At least I now no it works ☺️

@BytesNBits Жыл бұрын

@@frankom8245 That's good to know. I hadn't played around with multi player settings.

@shanonberni5032 Жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot man, you've really prevent me from going bald by pulling out all my hairs

@BytesNBits Жыл бұрын

Glad it helped!

@Dimaz42 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the insight, man! though in MAMEUI somehow using the in-game settings doesn't work, so gotta modify directly in each_game.ini file. The games that I've changed the controls to mouse were Time Crisis (lightgun) and Alien 3: The Gun (adstick)

@BytesNBits 7 ай бұрын

Hope you get it all working OK

@Dimaz42 7 ай бұрын

@@BytesNBits yup, it works great now 👍🏻

@Lycanthrokeith Жыл бұрын

Nice video! Is there any way to get both guns firing at exactly the same place with one mouse? I'm trying to do this for Lucky & Wild. Thanks for any help.

@BytesNBits Жыл бұрын

Hi. I'm not sure. You can try mapping the mouse to both gun controls, but I guess it will just make them move in sync around the screen rather than at the same location. If you've got a graphics tablet this might work but I've not tries it. Maybe map the mouse and move to one of the screen corners. this might put the two cursors in the same place. Only guessing here though!!

@Lycanthrokeith Жыл бұрын

@@BytesNBits Thanks for the reply. I do have a drawing tablet, didn't even think about that. Somehow, I managed to get the effect I wanted with the mouse through sheer fudgery. No clue how I did it.

@mwelle1 Жыл бұрын

Sorry, it's not the .cfg file but the .ini file where you put multimouse 1

@TruestMusic 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for this I've been wanting to know how to do this. Can you also make a video to show how to setup aimtrack lightguns as well please like this video.

@BytesNBits 3 ай бұрын

If it emulates a USB mouse it should just work. If you've got the gun and a mouse plugged in you'll need to make sure Mame is looking at the right one. Try it first with just the gun plugged in to confirm it's working. Then try to sort out having both plugged in together. I think you can select this in Mame.

@timbergreywolf2 Жыл бұрын

Hey the racing game that came up 2nd to last in video, i played in the past longggggggggggg time ago, what is the name of it?

@BytesNBits Жыл бұрын

Super Sprint - have fun!

@PenumbraPlays 10 ай бұрын

I'm trying to get my mouse to work for G.I. Joe - Real American Hero in MAME. The game originally used a joystick and 2 buttons. Is there a way to do this with that control scheme? Thanks.

@BytesNBits 10 ай бұрын

You can try mapping your mouse to the joystick directions in the game menu. Press TAB and then inputs for this game.

@themystx2 6 ай бұрын

can you map the mouse wheel to the spinner/dial?

@BytesNBits 6 ай бұрын

I'm not sure. I haven't tried it.

@siljeff2708 Жыл бұрын

There is no option for Save Machine Configuration? All I see is Save System Settings, and this is wiped as soon as I leave the menu

@BytesNBits Жыл бұрын

You might be yusing an older version of Mame. the one in the video is fairly current. Were you able to go through the controll assignment steps? There should be some save option at the end of that process.

@pelecyphora1 6 ай бұрын

Joypad setup to play Hamburgrtime

@jsamuja1276 Жыл бұрын

I'm using mame in retorarch and f1 gets me to the retroarch settings but the tab key won't open mame settings. Can someone help?

@BytesNBits Жыл бұрын

There's usually a keypad combination that opens the Mame menu in a Libretro core. Try select+start or select+X on your gamepad. Or have a look in the controls section of the Retroarch menu.

@JussiTuukkanen 11 ай бұрын

anybody know how to fix the garbled pixelated text in the mame menu, and the search box typing random characters when using up/down arrows to navigate and the right click with mouse on game not working in the menu ?

@BytesNBits 11 ай бұрын

I haven't seen these issues. What version of Mame are you using?

@JussiTuukkanen 11 ай бұрын

@@BytesNBits it says ( current ) in core in retroarch

@JussiTuukkanen 11 ай бұрын

@@BytesNBits hi there, could you tell me what version of Retroarch and Mame are you using ? I tried this with a fresh install on another machine, and arkanoid returns ( zip ) and it did the same thing again.. so i m guessing it would then be the game file that does this to Retroarch or something, just wondering what versions do you have where the Menu is actually readable ( lol ) :)

@hazertxc Жыл бұрын

Excellent video it helped me a lot, thank you. I'd like to do the same thing for Time Crisis : Project Titan on ePSXe but I can't manage to do it. Can someone help me pls ?

@BytesNBits Жыл бұрын

I think you can setup lightgun emulation in the controller config area. Set the controller type.

@hazertxc Жыл бұрын

@@BytesNBits After some research I managed to make it work, if someone's having the same problem you need to select " SLEH-0007 NAMCO G CON" in config gamepad, then launch the game and press F5 to change the controller type. Thank you very much for answering me so fast, keep up the good work and have a good one.

@BytesNBits Жыл бұрын

@@hazertxc Great. Thanks for the tip.