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New counters should be added to MegaZeux to allow games to directly read joypad axes/buttons instead of relying on key mappings. Mainly, this would allow games to take advantage of analog joysticks to a greater degree than is possible with the current key mapping system.

/*

joy!active         (read-only)  Return 1 if the joypad is available, otherwise 0, or -1 if the joystick requested is invalid.
joy!.*             (read-only)  Action reading. The first parameter is the joypad number (1-16) and the second is an action name or an axis name.
                                Returns [0,1] for an action, [-32768,32767] for an axis, or -1 if the control requested is invalid.

*/

Because direct joypad reading could conflict with the built-in joypad key mapping, there should be a way to disable mappings altogether:

/*
joy_simulate_keys  (write-only) When set to 0, disables the default MZX joypad key mapping behavior except for the joystick menu.
*/

edit: updated to reflect actual counters implemented in this pull request.

This post has been edited by Lachesis: 13 July 2019 - 07:58 PM

Updating status to: Approved
Updating severity to: 1 - Low
Updating version to: 2.92

Updating status to: Implemented
Issue fixed in: 2.92

Implemented as part of GIT e55e0108.

Moving to: Archived Requests