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by Birdman
Wed Feb 19, 2020 5:50 pm
Forum: RaspberryJAMMA Hardware Questions
Topic: Cannot get trackball to work
Replies: 7
Views: 5775

Re: Cannot get trackball to work

Hi Everyone, Wanted to close this one out. Bottom line was my trackball was bad. I ordered a new trackball, plugged it into the USB, and it worked right out of the chute. So, I now am using the JAMMA interface to connect to my joystick and a USB port on the pi to connect to my trackball and all is g...
by Birdman
Fri Feb 07, 2020 11:14 pm
Forum: ARpiCADE Support
Topic: Completely confused - Galaga menu
Replies: 4
Views: 3066

Re: Completely confused - Galaga menu

Hi Everyone, Just wanted to check back in and close this one out. I could not, for the life of me, figure out what changed in the settings that kept having the joystick jump into the game menu. So, I punted, and re-imaged my micro-SD card back to its original state and all is working fine again....S...
by Birdman
Mon Feb 03, 2020 4:39 pm
Forum: ARpiCADE Support
Topic: Completely confused - Galaga menu
Replies: 4
Views: 3066

Re: Completely confused - Galaga menu

Hello, Still completely confused on this one. I completely edited my hotkeys.ini so it looks like this: # Hotkeys config file # Only player 1 controls can be used at this time # To disable a shortcut delete the line, do not comment it out # Limited joystick axis support as follows # Joystick down = ...
by Birdman
Fri Jan 31, 2020 4:23 pm
Forum: ARpiCADE Support
Topic: Completely confused - Galaga menu
Replies: 4
Views: 3066

Completely confused - Galaga menu

Hello, Again a noob here. My Setup: 1) Sorry, I don't know which file to look at to know what build I have of software, but I just received it a week ago, so I'm pretty sure my ARPICADE build is the most recent 2) I purchased an ARPICADE RASPBERRY PI MULTICADE JAMMA PCB ADAPTOR FOR ARCADE MULTIGAME ...
by Birdman
Fri Jan 31, 2020 1:32 pm
Forum: RaspberryJAMMA Hardware Questions
Topic: Cannot get trackball to work
Replies: 7
Views: 5775

Re: Cannot get trackball to work

Thanks a bunch for your reply. You bring up some good debugging that I need to do. Thanks for highlighting that the board connector is for the kick harness and won't work with a trackball...that narrows down the one trackball I need to focus on :-) I need to pull the ball out of my system and plug i...
by Birdman
Thu Jan 30, 2020 9:31 pm
Forum: RaspberryJAMMA Hardware Questions
Topic: Cannot get trackball to work
Replies: 7
Views: 5775

Cannot get trackball to work

Hello, Noob here. A week ago I purchased an ARPICADE RASPBERRY PI MULTICADE JAMMA PCB ADAPTOR FOR ARCADE MULTIGAME from HighScoreSaves and I am using a Raspberry Pi 3 b+ setup. For the life of me I cannot get my trackball to work. I have 2 different lighted trackballs from here: 1) https://www.diyre...