[SDL] Any reported problems with SDL and USB adaptors for PSX, Genesis?

[Simon Roby]

On 8/23/07, Stephen Anthony <sa666666 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone been having any problems with SDL 1.2.12 and USB adaptors for
> Playstation and/or Genesis controllers?  I've been getting a number of
> reports on these devices, but I still haven't narrowed the problem
> down.  The reports tend to be with WinXP.  The problems are usually
> that SDL doesn't register button presses; axes seem to be fine.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve

Those adapaters are usually of poor quality since they're always
unauthorized by the console companies and usually come from Hong Kong
or some other bootleg-friendly country. Usually problems with those
adapters occur because of bad programming of their internal firmwares
(that probably doesn't respect USB standards).

Personally I have a 2 port Playstation adapter (the one that's also a
gun adapter) and I've often had problems on systems with UHCI
controllers (usually Intel chipsets).

Anyway if it's a hardware problem there's not much SDL can do about this...
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- SR