trakball troubles

[peedenmark7]

I bought a NEW boxed 5200 trak-ball a couple months back and am finally getting round to using it.

its visibly unused but upon hitting the start button on centipede, the cursor moves all the way to the right and I cant move it at all.. the ball and bearings move freely, all fire buttons work.

 

anything I can clean ?

 

EDITED:

 

okay, found something... I am using best electronics 12' extension cable.

I unplugged the cable and ran the trak ball direct into port 1 [4 port]and it now works fine.

 

wondering if anyone else has experienced this issue with this cable ? It works fine with all of my cx52's

 

also worthy of mention, the trak-ball cosmetically matches my 2 port having the textured finish not smooth glossy plastic like the 4 ports. were there any changes made in the consoles or trak ball units that affect compatibility ?

Edited March 6, 2011 by peedenmark7

[bohoki]

the trackball uses pin 12 the joysticks dont if that pin is not wired in the extension it wont work but the joystick will

 

try plugging it all in again maybe one of the pins was loose

[peedenmark7]

the trackball uses pin 12 the joysticks dont if that pin is not wired in the extension it wont work but the joystick will

 

try plugging it all in again maybe one of the pins was loose

 

 

You are correct...checked the pins & cleaned them... I ended up calling best and they clued me into the cable pin issue... I pulled the ext. cable out of the chain and the trak-ball works flawlessly !

 

does anyone know if a correctly wired cable exists for the trak-ball ? best also mentioned that because there is a chip that needs to fire up in the trak-ball that if a 5200 has a weak motherboard , even with a correct cable it may not work especially the longer it is, or the further you get away from the console as it loses signal or something.. they also suggested that i coil up the cable to mimic a short cable,as apparently this is a trick atari techs used to do. it however made no difference as i still had no cursor movement.

 

You learn new stuff every day !

Edited March 15, 2011 by peedenmark7