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love it!

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Nicely done.

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O……M…….G!! SO AWESOME!

funny thing. I have the same thing you have and I emailed Andy, but he really didn’t have an answer. I’m so happy your fixed this. I’m ecstatic actually!

So…can you link the new firm ware for others to use or is it just for you???

Thanks millions for figuring this out.

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HOW oh HOW do I get this to be my loading screen?!

I’ll look around.

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I don’t really want it as a touch screen.
I think I want a smaller one anyway. Like the 3.2″.
I’m still thinking about it.

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Yup.
Mame4All will not work with a Trackball. I’ve tried and tried.
AdvMame works with the trackball. So I put all my trackball games in that mame folder and then I use mame4All for everything else.

Only problem I have is centipede doesn’t work.

Before you stress out anymore do it that way. I worked on this for weeks!

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I didn’t buy it yet. I was hoping to get some answers before I commit.

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ya I hear ya. It sure is frustrating but it’s all I can figure out.

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Would switching over to the 4-pole 3.5mm jack from HDMI solve the lag problem?
My TV doesn’t have the option to switch to game mode movie mode. So I too am having a bit of lag when playing NES games…amongst others.

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Mame4All will not support a trackball or mouse as far as I’ve been told, and it holds true so far. AdvMame does. Rom set .94 is what I use for that. That’s ALL I can figure out.

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At the prompt.

..to determine which /dev/input/mouse# device is being assigned, you can do

cat /dev/input/mouse0
or
cat /dev/input/mouse1

and see if characters appear when moving the trackball.

Press ^C to stop.

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First off do yourself a favor and download PuTTY. It’ll save your life.
Then. See this link.

How to key map mapping the keyboard for the I-PAC or other keyboard duplicator.

That’s what I did.
In the beginning I think I was configuring the wrong file and that’s why nothing worked hence the title of my post…I was get’n pissed.

Anyway..I’m still trying to get my Trackball to work. I’ve been a little busy and haven’t gotten back to my arcade in a few days. I’ll try tonight and keep you posted.

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Well thank you!

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I always wondered that myself as to why there are billions of MAME emulators and different roms sets.

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OK…SO…
I started over. Again.
This time I put the ROMS in the respective folders. 037b11 back in MAME4ALL
and the .94’s back into AdvMame folders. Oh and I think I must have put the inputs in the wrong .cfg file. Because that’s all good too. The only problem now is my TrackBall. I just can NOT get that to work. I have one more thing I’m going to try before I just not use it at all.
In short…All the buttons are responding now and all my games are working now. The only odd thing is when the ROMS load there’s and error saying it might now work but then it loads anyway.

Moral of the sorry. Don’t give up. Take a Breath. Keep reading. Keep Trying.
Here is what I have come across and I saved the link in my favorites.

Retropie 2.3 and IPAC2 arcade controller

How to key map mapping the keyboard for the I-PAC or other keyboard duplicator.

Everyone on here is awesome. THANK YOU!

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I really want my trackball to work.

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OOOOHH!! ok, ok…I’ll check it out when I get home.

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I did that too. The configurations don’t stay. I have to reconfigure it every time I play a game. weird right?

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…oh and I’m loading all my roms into the Arcade folder. Maybe I should go back to the old way and put them in the corresponding emulator folder. *shrug*

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1. Does your Pi boot to EmulationStation?
Yes. All is good there.

2. Can you see the ROMs under the appropriate emulator? If not, I would suggest checking compatibility, here for FinalBurn Alpha and here for MAME.
Yes.

3. Does the controller work on the EmulationStation home screen? I’ve not used the iPac 2 so I can’t help you with any specifics where. However have you read this thread? Alternatively, a temporary solution might be using a different controller. I’ve got a couple CSL gamepads, they’re not ideal for MAME and arcade stuff but you can assign the buttons however you like.

I’m using Happ arcade buttons. Old school arcade no controller. Everything works in the Emulationstation menus. When I enter any rom it’s says my iPac2 is not set up. I’ve updated the firmware for the iPac2. I’ve add all the inputs for player 1 under the retroarch.cfg. I’ve set up the buttons in the mame menu using the TAB key but they don’t stay. I’ve tried using the Retroarch setup screen but my buttons don’t work so I can’t set anything. My trackball doesn’t work at all. It did for a while when I loaded up the .94 roms for AdvMame but now it doesn’t. I switched back to the 037b11 rom set for mame4all but now those don’t work at all. With AdvMame not all the games work. So I tried lr-mame2003 and that works but I can’t configure the buttons in Retroarch so it doesn’t REALLY work. I’ve also updated to RetroPi 3.5.
I dunno what to do anymore. Maybe I’m just doing it ALL wrong. I wish I could just send this thing out and have it all done for me because I dunno what to do anymore.

4. Do the ROMs boot? If so, have you setup you controller to take credits? I was stuck trying to use the default keys for ages, for which I suggest reading.
See above.

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I really with I could get my ulimarc trackball to work.

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Same boat. I’ve read all kinds of articles and watch a few YouTube channels but nothing seems to fix it.

EDIT: Check this out. I’m going to dive into it when I get home see if it works.

How to key map mapping the keyboard for the I-PAC or other keyboard duplicator.

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I have an diPac2 and mine did the exact same thing…it just eventually went away. I dunno. I didn’t do anything to it.

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Nothing. Still nothing. I did EVERYTHING.

so defeated.

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Maaaannnn ok…

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is this going to enable the trackball to work on an y emulator then?

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Awesome awesome awesome…thank you!

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Oh and for the file “advmame-0.94.0.rc” I put all that code at the beginning of everything. Is that correct or should I append it at the bottom?

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Yup, Mouse0.

One thing though. It doesn’t come up as TEXT it’s weird characters. Maybe I should try mouse1…Mmmmmm.

BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD!!

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OK!!! SO!!!
I switched roms.
I entered in all that code.
Nothing.

I switched BACK to the .37b11…
I tried every MAME emulator and still…
Nothing.

I give up.

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Check this out.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=38058

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No I didn’t have to do anything with the sound. It seemed fine. I’ll run it again when I get home and double check for ya.

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OK…I started completely from scratch. Retro Pi 3.5. Fresh new flash drive.
Still nothing. I tried centipede on ALL the emulators. Nothing. I haven’t tried the .94 roms yet and I haven’t tried adding the…….

device_keyboard raw
device_mouse raw

device_raw_mousedev[0] /dev/input/mouse0
device_raw_mousetype[0] ps2

input_map[p1_dialx] mouse[0,x]
input_map[p1_dialy] mouse[0,y]

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

….yet….so tonight I’ll see.

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I run all my MK with lr-mame4all. Works perfect, sound and all. Only problem I’m having is mapping the keys. That I can’t figure out.

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FIXED! I had the old info on the flash drive.
Formatted and good to go!

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