Mouse polling rate overclock with Adafruit

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Hi, im interested in overclocking old Microsoft mouses without having to rely on the incredibly cumbersome signed drivers + atsiv.exe method. I have found that you can use an USB dongle thanks to Hid Remapper. I have seen the videos and read the github, and seems like Adafruit is the easiest one. My question is:

  1. Has anyone tried this combo of old Microsoft mouse (WMO, Intellimouse, mostly) with this board? Did it work?

  2. How do you do this? From what I understand, you have to plug the board directly into the computer, press some buttons (while the USB is plugged in the computer?) and copy the .uf2 file there:

If you get the Feather RP2040 USB Host board from Adafruit, the device is ready to use, you just need to flash it with the right firmware (remapper_feather.uf2). Hold the “Boot” button on the board, then press the “Reset” button. A USB drive should show up on your computer. Copy the UF2 file to that drive. That’s it.

What is not clear to me is, assuming you do this with the board plugged into an USB on the computer (I assume this is the case), then for how long do you press the “Boot” button? is something supposed to happen? How do you know this booting process finished? Same goes for the “Reset” button, do you press those buttons once and wait? for how long? Because im not sure if it has a beep, or a light in there or something, to indicate something, that this process is finished.

Well let’s say I manage to drag and drop the file there. I close it, unmount device and that’s all?

Then I basically, plug the mouse in there on the other end of the board with (I think) an USB-A to USB-C cable (because the USB-A end is used to plug it into the computer), go on this website (HID Remapper Configuration) (I would be interested in how to download the files locally but for now, let’s focus on overclocking the mouse) and then put polling rate to desired hz (500hz in this case), then “Save to device” and that’s it?

Please let me know if im missing something. I think im not getting the way to plug the mouse in the board right. From the pictures, I see an USB-A end, and another USB-C end, so im assuming im going to need a cable there.

And I would be interested if like I said anyone has tried this with these mouses.

Thanks

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The important thing is that the BOOT button is held while the RESET button is pressed and released. Hold BOOT for like a second after releasing RESET and you’ll be fine. There is no beep, but a drive will appear on your computer.

Yes, the drive will disappear by itself, you don’t unmount it.

The USB-C port goes to the computer, you plug your mouse into the Type A port.

And yes, that’s all.

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But here you said that if it’s new you don’t have to do anything:

So the way I see it is that you just plug it and drop the files and thats it.

Luckily my MOBO has one USB-C port but in many computers that is not the case so I guess I would need an USB-C to USB-A adapter cable there.

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Okay im going to give this a go, hope it works. If someone has tried this please let me know.