Adding gamepad/joystick support -- testers needed, calling everyone who owns a gamepad...!

Currently the only controller supported is Logitech Dual Action!
If you own a gamepad or controller other than Logitech Dual Action, please run this test program!


FIRST
Attach gamepad/joystick/etc to computer
download/unzip/run the executable
you should see a screen listing the name and capabilities of your controller (if more than one is attached, only the first will be recognized)
press Esc to quit

NEXT
Look for a file named stdout.txt and copy and paste the contents of it into a new file. This file contains a summary of the information which appeared when you ran the test program. (Complete this step even if the screen didn't display correctly!)

NEXT
For each button on your controller, list which SNES input it corresponds to (see below). If your controller's buttons aren't numbered, run the test program again and watch the display; each button will change from 0 to 1 while it is held down.

FINALLY
Post the whole thing as a reply.


The twelve SNES inputs are:
A, B, X, Y, L, R, START, SELECT, Left, Up, Down, Right.
(technically there's a 13th input, but we won't use it here.)

L and R are the shoulder buttons.
SELECT is on the left, START is on the right.
If ABXY were mapped to the dpad, Y would be Left, X would be Up, A would be Right, and B would be Down.

It's fine to have multiple controller buttons correspond to the same SNES input.
It's also okay if you don't provide inputs for Left, Up, Down, or Right (you'll be using axes/hats instead of buttons).
If you don't want a particular button to be used, that's okay too.


Here's an example of what I'm looking for:

This post has been edited by xn--e5x on Jan 1 2009, 09:29 PM

Attached File ( Number of downloads: 3 )
 controller_test.zip

More SDL Programmers? Oh boy.

Perhaps it is you who is the "more" programmer!

...also I can't offer any support for your gamepad because you didn't post one.

K, I did an Ubuntu Test to see if the EXE was even able to run under WINE, and unfortunately, I get this error:

Of course, I didn't plug in any controllers, so that could possibly be a problem. And I did try it with libpng12-0.dll in the same directory as the EXE, and with libpng12-0.dll in the system32. Neither worked.

tl;dr This does NOT work under WINE.

Never mind.

This post has been edited by Hohoo on Dec 30 2008, 06:41 PM

He uses SDL, but then again, that uses DirectX under Windows so...

Hey xn-e5x! You using C/C++? If so, I can recompile for GNU/Linux!

I think he's using VB.

I seriously doubt there's a SDL Port for VB.

I obviously need more sleep.