VMM has been discontinued and is no longer in development by its original author. I will accept merge requests from contributors and those are welcome. Thank you for your support and I wish the next set of authors all the best on this endevour.

🐭👾🖲️ Virtual Multi-Mouse 1.1.3

VMM, combines your spinner, trackball, mouse into a virtual multi-mouse! VMM is designed for Batocera Linux for use with Emulation Station and RetroArch.

This software auto configures trackball, spinner, mouse into one virtual device. Multi-Mouse works with Batocera v35 or later. Recently tested on Batocera v35, v36 and v37. 1.1.3 adds service support for beta 38.

🐭👾🖲️ Ready to Enter the Multi-Verse?

1. From Batocera, type F1 function key to enter the File Manager
2. Navigate to /Applications and open Xterm

curl -sL https://github.com/StarPLayrX/Virtual-Multi-Mouse/archive/refs/heads/main.zip -o vmm.zip
unzip vmm.zip
cd Virtual-Multi-Mouse-main/MM
chmod 755 install.sh
./install.sh -install
./install.sh -restart

🐭👾🖲️ Want to Leave the Multi-Verse?

2. Type F1 to enter File Manager
3. Navigate to /Applications and open Xterm

cd Virtual-Multi-Mouse-main/MM
./install.sh -uninstall
./installsh. -reboot

🐭👾🖲️ Manual install instructions for Batocera v38 and later, execute in terminal:

1. From Batocera, type F1 function key to enter the File Manager
2. Navigate to /Applications and open Xterm

cp mm.sh /userdata/system/scripts/mm.sh
cp multimouse.sh /userdata/system/multimouse.sh
cp custom.sh /userdata/system/services/vmm
chmod 755 /userdata/system/scripts/mm.sh /userdata/system/multimouse.sh /userdata/system/services/vmm
batocera-services enable vmm
batocera-services start vmm

🐭👾🖲️ Credits

• Virtual Multi-Mouse developed by StarPlayrX aka Todd Bruss
• Installer service update for Batocera 38 by n2qz

🐭👾🖲️ Reference Material

• https://github.com/KarsMulder/evsieve
• https://github.com/kempniu/evmapy
• https://opensource.com/article/18/11/udev
• https://wiki.batocera.org/launch_a_script
• https://forums.libretro.com/t/configuring-ra-for-multi-mouse-spinners-lightguns-tackballs/12619E
• https://forum.batocera.org/d/6652-being-able-to-use-trackball-and-spinner-using-per-mouse-index