0004307: Buttons of my PS2 joypad seem to be not correctly detected, in that I cannot

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Machine

A1200

CPU

68060 + PPC

CPUSpeed

ChipSet

AGA

GFXCard

Voodoo3/Mediator

ChipMem

256 KB

FastMem

256MB

Workbench

OS 3.9

KickROM

40 - Kick 3.1

KickSoft

Selfmade

WHDLoad

18.6beta

imported

yes

Attached Files

Deliverance.zip (1,859 bytes) 2020-04-18 01:13
RuffNTumble.zip (2,555 bytes) 2020-04-18 01:21

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note ~0008054 funkazzista (reporter) 2020-04-05 18:14	Hey JOTD! I'm sorry for being this late, but my Amiga finally got fixed and I finally was able to test both v1.4 and v1.5 of your slave. I can confirm to you that v1.4 works just fine with my joypad and I can play the game (even if with only 1 one button), while with v1.5 no button seems to be recognized when pressed, either with "blue/2nd button act like UP" option on or off.

note ~0008055 JOTD (developer) 2020-04-05 18:19 Last edited: 2020-04-05 18:20 View 2 revisions	at this point I suggest that you use JoyTest program from aminet to test your joypad: http://aminet.net/package/driver/input/JoyPortTest.lha That's how I found out that my joypad wasn't working except for the red button (no kidding!). I picked a new joypad and everything worked. This PS2 joypad comes with an adapter I suppose? are you sure CD32 protocol is supported?

note ~0008063 funkazzista (reporter) 2020-04-06 10:37	Jeff, I tested that JoyTest program both with lowlevel.library checked and unchecked, and all of my PS2 controller buttons are detected just fine. Please notice that my PS2 controller works with all the other WHDLoad slaves supporting at least 2 buttons I tested, for example all the recent ones released by CFOU! work without any problem. It's only v1.5 of your Deliverance slave that doesn't detect buttons at all: even weirder, I've just tried playing it with a Honeybee controller and that just works instead (except for the UP direction that still makes the character jump, but maybe that's on purpose?)! So, should this problem be too hard/weird to look into, I guess I can always change controller only for this particular game.

note ~0008086 JOTD (developer) 2020-04-08 23:32 Last edited: 2020-04-08 23:35 View 2 revisions	strange. The code I use is very standard. Maybe timers are off, going to check. Honeybee controller is very similar to standard joypad. And yes, up has been left in because it was too difficult to handle all the moves/ladder/fight if disabled. In the meanwhile, it would help if you tested my recent releases with joypad support too.

note ~0008226 funkazzista (reporter) 2020-04-17 11:52	Hello Jeff, I've tried some of your recent releases and here are the results when I tested them with my PS2 controller: - Chaos Engine ECS -> buttons work fine, even start/pause button! - Chaos Engine AGA -> buttons work fine (but on my system game is slow as hell, completely unplayable) - Chaos Engine CD32 -> there's a huge lag in button presses and they seem to get recognized only when I keep button pressed - Ruff'n'Tumble -> same problem as Deliverance, cannot even start the game - Oscar AGA and ECS -> jump with second button works! - Commando -> both buttons are detected just fine! Just like with Deliverance, when tried with the Honeybee controller all problems listed above were gone (except for the AGA version of Chaos Engine which is obviously still sloooooow).

note ~0008232 JOTD (developer) 2020-04-17 16:00 Last edited: 2020-04-17 17:50 View 2 revisions	thanks for those details. It makes a lot of sense to me. @CFOU may be interested in reading this as well. It means that I have to read the joypad buttons during the VBLANK interrupt, not somewhere else, or it may be incompatible with some adapters. So I think I'm able to fix Deliverance, and others you mentionned, without even being able to reproduce the issues. Well, it appears that Ruff'n'tumble is already reading during vblank so maybe false lead.

note ~0008234 JOTD (developer) 2020-04-17 17:47 Last edited: 2020-04-17 17:49 View 3 revisions	in the meanwhile, have you tested Chaos Engine latest version (2020-04-16) ? or a previous version? If not can you test the latest version? AGA version of Chaos Engine is slower than ECS & CD32 because it runs in chip memory. I have hacked CD32 version so it can run in fast but that's a hell of a job. BTW do you happen to switch the controller while the game is already running? my early slaves detect the controllers at startup, and never again.

note ~0008269 JOTD (developer) 2020-04-18 00:41 Last edited: 2020-04-18 01:21 View 2 revisions	Can you test the attached beta Deliverance slave v2.0? And I also attached a fixed Ruff N Tumble, can you test it? If this doesn't work please open a separate issue for each game.

note ~0008354 funkazzista (reporter) 2020-04-20 13:57	Re: Chaos Engine My tests were based on v2.0 of the slave: I've now tested v2.1 and unfortunately I have to say that the new version seems to have worsen even the ECS version because now game gets stuck on "GET READY" logo and when it finally disappears, button presses behave just like in the CD32 version (i.e. huge lag in their detection). OTOH I'm glad to tell you that with those new slaves both Deliverance and Ruff'n'Tumble seem to work pretty well with my PS2 controller: thank you a lot, Jeff! :)

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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
Issue History
2019-12-05 14:51	administrator	New Issue
2019-12-05 14:51	administrator	Status	new => assigned
2019-12-05 14:51	administrator	Assigned To	=> JOTD
2020-02-15 17:28	JOTD	Status	assigned => feedback
2020-02-17 09:33	funkazzista	Status	feedback => assigned
2020-03-03 07:10	JOTD	Status	assigned => feedback
2020-04-05 18:14	funkazzista	Note Added: 0008054
2020-04-05 18:14	funkazzista	Status	feedback => assigned
2020-04-05 18:19	JOTD	Note Added: 0008055
2020-04-05 18:20	JOTD	Note Edited: 0008055	View Revisions
2020-04-06 10:37	funkazzista	Note Added: 0008063
2020-04-08 23:32	JOTD	Note Added: 0008086
2020-04-08 23:35	JOTD	Note Edited: 0008086	View Revisions
2020-04-17 11:52	funkazzista	Note Added: 0008226
2020-04-17 16:00	JOTD	Note Added: 0008232
2020-04-17 17:47	JOTD	Note Added: 0008234
2020-04-17 17:48	JOTD	Note Edited: 0008234	View Revisions
2020-04-17 17:49	JOTD	Note Edited: 0008234	View Revisions
2020-04-17 17:50	JOTD	Note Edited: 0008232	View Revisions
2020-04-18 00:41	JOTD	Note Added: 0008269
2020-04-18 00:42	JOTD	File Added: Deliverance.zip
2020-04-18 01:13	JOTD	File Deleted: Deliverance.zip
2020-04-18 01:13	JOTD	File Added: Deliverance.zip
2020-04-18 01:21	JOTD	File Added: RuffNTumble.zip
2020-04-18 01:21	JOTD	Note Edited: 0008269	View Revisions
2020-04-20 13:57	funkazzista	Note Added: 0008354
2020-04-20 14:55	JOTD	Status	assigned => closed
2020-04-20 14:55	JOTD	Resolution	open => fixed

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