MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: help with running MAME in DOS command line mode please

mame centipede -mouse

Will enable your mouse as analog controls when you play Centipede.

Second question... You would need to recompile, with the additionally required GUI source and tools, in addition to the normal MAME source and tools, to have the GUI version recognize your newly added game.

> I'm trying to do some messing around with MAME and I'm needing to run a very old
> version (MAME .135, 32 bit). But I imagine my question is still the same for the
> current version.
>
> I need to run in DOS prompt command line mode. My problem is, for Atari trac-ball
> games, like Missile Command and Centipede and Millipede (and I'm guessing any other
> game that uses a trac-ball), I have to use the keyboard arrows to move the cursor
> around.
>
> What paramater do I set to enable the mouse when running through the DOS command line
> mode? If I used MAMEUI32, it's easy to map keyboard functions, but I don't know how
> to do it from DOS.
>
> My other question, and I think I know the answer to this ("you can't do it"), without
> recompiling MAME or MAMEUI32, is there a way to get the GUI to recognize a new game
> that isn't in MAME (.135). Let's assume you've recompiled MAME and added the proper
> driver (it works on command line mode). I'd like the GUI to recognize the game too,
> so I could play it through the GUI.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe (joemagiera at Ameritech dot net)
> [email protected]

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