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From: Elliott Lee <tenchi@netmagic.net>
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Subject: Re: Four way adapter
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 06:42:29 -0800
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James Rutherford wrote:
> 
> 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).

Have you made something print out all the status bits for the
controller buffers and twiddled with the controller to see what
happens?  You have got me curious now...

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  tenchi@netmagic.net
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