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From: James Rutherford <hexheroes@writeme.com>
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Subject: Re: Four way adapter
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 13:49:49 +0000
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Robert Swan wrote:

> This is a request for something new from sony to add to our libraries.
> I'm very happy with everything we have except our lack of support for
> the four joypad adapter.
>
> ...
>
> Ill write to Jim'll fix it if it doesn't happen :)

I went out and bought a multi-tap yesterday, in the desperate hope that
maybe I could figure out how to get it working (as someone seems to have
already got somewhere with the lightgun).

Suffice to say, the multi-tap boomerang will be joining the Codewarrior
frisbee in my affections, which is a bit of a shame.

For what it's worth, the way the multitap doesn't work (certainly for
the Yaroze libs) is as a different controller type, concatenating all of
the pad results.

When you plug the thing in, it acts as if controller A is plugged into
port 1 and memory card A is plugged into mem-socket 1 - No other
discernable effects.

I guess there is the possibility that the multitap sends back each
information packet on different VSyncs, but I haven't tried this and am
not too hopeful that I could get it working.

Anybody got any bright ideas...?

James (~mrfrosty).