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<blockquote data-quote="dmil666" data-source="post: 278888" data-attributes="member: 7265"><p>Heya Jeff,</p><p></p><p>Yeah, the mouse buttons are directly tied to the trackball and the trackball electronics are totally separate from the rest of the controls, hence the two USB cables. When I bought the thing I figured that I could use the mouse buttons for flippers and use everything else for programmable functions, but alas, that didn't work out. The mouse buttons get overwhelmed during play on my system, slowing down and sometimes sticking in the up position, which is decidedly non-optimal for pinball. It might be a conflict with my Logitech mouse drivers (I have two Logitech mice on my system), or it could be the trackball electronics. It was easiest to just ignore the trackball and use the rest of the buttons, so that's what I did (I really hate trying to figure out driver conflicts). If I ever come across another trackball that is better quality and is a drop in replacement I might try it.</p><p></p><p>The script system that you came up with sound pretty slick for dealing with all of the systems that you use. My setup works fine for me right now, but if I get sucked into more pinballs with different layouts I might have to adopt your system too.</p><p></p><p>I didn't physically add more buttons, at least not yet (thinking about it). I just switched places with the microswitches on the side buttons and mapped flippers to two of the top buttons. I'll try to make a graphic of my layout and post it here for you.</p><p></p><p>Heh, my PC setup is in my living room too, also with a 55" 4k TV that we recently bought. I tried adding the TV as my third monitor, but with the other two monitors on my desk and the TV 10 feet away, it was just too weird to use all of the time. Plus I'd have to arm wrestle the wife every time she wanted to watch Netflix...</p><p></p><p>Rancho, eh? I'm just north of Elk Grove so we're pretty close. I got some new switches and buttons coming that I'm going to install into The Tank, and once I've got that working maybe we can do a meet and flip or something.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dmil666, post: 278888, member: 7265"] Heya Jeff, Yeah, the mouse buttons are directly tied to the trackball and the trackball electronics are totally separate from the rest of the controls, hence the two USB cables. When I bought the thing I figured that I could use the mouse buttons for flippers and use everything else for programmable functions, but alas, that didn't work out. The mouse buttons get overwhelmed during play on my system, slowing down and sometimes sticking in the up position, which is decidedly non-optimal for pinball. It might be a conflict with my Logitech mouse drivers (I have two Logitech mice on my system), or it could be the trackball electronics. It was easiest to just ignore the trackball and use the rest of the buttons, so that's what I did (I really hate trying to figure out driver conflicts). If I ever come across another trackball that is better quality and is a drop in replacement I might try it. The script system that you came up with sound pretty slick for dealing with all of the systems that you use. My setup works fine for me right now, but if I get sucked into more pinballs with different layouts I might have to adopt your system too. I didn't physically add more buttons, at least not yet (thinking about it). I just switched places with the microswitches on the side buttons and mapped flippers to two of the top buttons. I'll try to make a graphic of my layout and post it here for you. Heh, my PC setup is in my living room too, also with a 55" 4k TV that we recently bought. I tried adding the TV as my third monitor, but with the other two monitors on my desk and the TV 10 feet away, it was just too weird to use all of the time. Plus I'd have to arm wrestle the wife every time she wanted to watch Netflix... Rancho, eh? I'm just north of Elk Grove so we're pretty close. I got some new switches and buttons coming that I'm going to install into The Tank, and once I've got that working maybe we can do a meet and flip or something. [/QUOTE]
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