Spinners?

[virtvic]

What's the cheapest way to get a spinner in mame? The ultimarc ones are REALLY expensive?

Are there any usb alternatives or is the better way to use an arcade spinner and an optipac?

 

[big10p]

I've seen people hack an old mouse before, if you want cheap. I used to have an ultimarc USB spinner but found the slight lag to be too annoying, so sold it on. Newer makes/models may be better. Not sure if the lag was due to the USB interface or MAME though, TBH.big10p2019-02-18 13:11:33

 

[minwah]

The only other USB one I know of currently is this:

http://groovygamegear.com/webstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=86&products_id=268

...but that would likely work out more expensive than the Ultimarc one.

You could make one and use an Optipac (or mouse hack as said before).

Shame Oscar Controls isn't still going. He made some nice spinners, more akin to real arcade spinners than the newfangled ball-bearing-spin-forever type ones.

 

[AnDyC]

Spintrak user here, have never experienced any lag.

 

[ZedEx48K]

I could do you a Spintrak (with weight) cheaper? (will still need the control board from Ultarcade)

 

[DanP]

I use a Spintrack straight into my Pi2Jammas and they work perfectly.

 

[Luigi]

I have a small pcb with USB where you can connect a regular spinner. I used it for testing some spinners but it was never used in a cab. I can take a photo if you're interested.

 

[virtvic]

A kind soul is sending me a unit, thanks all!

 

[Ropi Jo]

I've used the mouse hack to add 2 x USB wheel-mouse spinners to mame. It seemed the PC sometimes lost the location of the mice and it was a pain to get them working again. I re-worked it to use a single mouse with the X axis to one spinner and the y axis to the other. This worked better, but still got issues with the PC 'losing' the mouse. This was probably made worse as I also had a PS2 trackball that was seen as another mouse. Plus, the massively over-populated CP was awful.

My new in-progress build is using an opti-pac to handle all spinners and trackballs on inter-changeable CPs, so will hopefully be more stable.

Ropi Jo2019-02-20 14:13:25