Posted by bob on February 25, 2002 at 11:41:33:
In Reply to: Re: Anyone hacked a laser mouse to work as a good spinner? posted by u_rebelscum on February 24, 2002 at 18:22:24:
: 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.
Hadn't thought of that. I would want to make an adjustment screw then, so I could change the angle of the sensor. You could get it pretty close by eyeballing it, but if the sensor assy. was on a piece of wood with a hinge at one end and a bolt at the other end you could make pretty fine adjustments.
You could test it in windows by just spinning it in one direction. When the cursor hits the edge of the screen, it will stop, but if there's any off-axis, it would slowly drift up or down
Bob