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

[Stephen Anthony]

On August 23, 2007 02:26:26 pm Simon Roby wrote:
> 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).

The problem is, the controllers work in other applications in Windows, 
but not the one that's having problems.  I'm waiting on feedback from 
the users to see if SDL is the issue (it's possible those other 
programs don't use SDL at all, and access the Windows joysticks 
directly).

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

I agree, and I have no problem telling them that.  I'm just trying to 
verify that that's what is actually happening.  I really can't see how 
SDL wouldn't receive joystick button events unless the USB device 
itself was faulty somehow ...

Thanks,
Steve