How To Install Arcade Joystick

• #2

Zilch??? I was able to observe the schematics to catechumen a trackball game to run on a joystick only not the other way around. Could it be every bit unproblematic as providing power to the trackball and wiring up the up/down/left/right wires accordingly? I searched on Happ's website, and it would appear that you either have the typical "arcade trackballs" and so the USB/PS2 multifariousness (for use with PC'south). What i want to do is run a trackball on jamma games that ordinarily employ joysticks. Surely SOMEONE has done this before???

Lee

• #3

Here is the wiring schematic from the standard vi wire trackball connector:

Black to Ground
Red to +5V
Yellow to 2d player UP
Greenish to 2d player DOWN
Dark-brown to second player LEFT
Blue to second actor Right

Opposite information technology.

• #5

Perhaps i wasn't 100% clear equally to what i am looking to do. I am wanting to employ a trackball in place of a joystick on a jamma game that was originally designed for use with a joystick and the standard 4 inputs from an viii-fashion referenced to ground. Since there are "10" and "y" signals plus the ii "clock" wires for each, I did non know if in that location was a way to directly wire each up/downwards/left/correct wire upward straight to a particular trackball. In your description, you are talking about wiring it upward to the "player two" portion of the jamma harness, so i suppose that perhaps you lot are referring to hooking upwardly a trackball to one of the Chinese 60-in-i boards or something?

Lee

• #half dozen

Maybe I'thousand misreading everything posted then far, but it seems to me that Kraj's link from priglmeier'due south folio (to a higher place) is exactly what yous desire. From the link:

The trackball used in this game connects to where a joystick would have been; what was: upward, down, left, and right is at present x-direction, y-direction, x-clock, and y-clock, respectively (dir and clk for short).

• #7

I only went dorsum and re-read the folio. Information technology is referring to how you wire a tracball into a jamma harness on games that are designed for trackballs (such as the bowling game used in the example). Golden tee or world form bowling seem to be the types of games that are referenced.

In these cases, the games are programmed specifically for use with a tracball. I am wanting to see how a tracball tin be installed/used in a game that was programmed for a standard joystick interface...

Lee

• #viii

OK. In that location are just 6 wires for a trackball.
Black is basis.
Red is 5v.

Instead of a joystick, utilise the following wires on the trackball for the up/downwards/left/right action.

Yellowish Up
Green DOWN
Brown LEFT
Blue RIGHT

This volition put you where it sounds similar what you desire!

I did this on a DK and thought it was fun for about 5 minutes. Then those damn barrels got in the way....

Source: https://forums.arcade-museum.com/threads/how-to-replace-a-joystick-with-a-trackball.175616/

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