Re: Anyone hacked a laser mouse to work as a good spinner?

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: : : I haven't done it, but I notice that if you put anything infront of the sensor, it reads it, so I was thinking of just printing something like this: : : : |||||||||||||||||||||||||| : : : on a piece of lable stock and sticking it to a round thing. Would be much simpler than hacking a regular mouse, I would think. : : : Bob : : : South Carolina : : : : You probably dont even have to do that... as it sees Any surface movment. The only problem i could forsee... it how to hack them. I think they are all one piece... and Im not sure how far away from the surface they have to be to read. : The other problem is that if you don't mount the mouse sensor perfectly level, it will be sensing a diagonal movement rather than just along the X axis ("left & down" and "right & up" for example). And in the official mame, you can't make the game ignore the mouse Y axis, so games that use the Y axis also will play "funny". Racing games like Super Sprint, for example, might speed up more on right hand turns than straight, and slower on left hand turns. Games with just the X axis, like arkanoid, will be fine.

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