Joystick support via -joydevX, etc. will only work if player 1 uses a joystick that way. Also, there's no way to map joydevs 3 and 4 from the command line. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Get a ROM for your favorite multiplayer game. 2. Ask snes9x to use a joydev for player 2 but not player 1: for example, snes9x -joydev1 /dev/null -joydev2 /dev/js0 "Tetris Attack.ZIP" Actual Results: snes9x will print the message "joystick: No joystick found." and ignore the joystick. Expected Results: snes9x should use the joystick for player 2. (It may optionally complain that /dev/null isn't a joystick using version 1.0 or better of the driver.) Fixing this is simple; I have a patch ready, which I'll attach once I've had the opportunity to test it.
Created attachment 66213 [details, diff] bugfix
Hmm, and the patch is for which ebuild?
Oh, sorry about that! This is for =games-emulation/snes9x-1.43, and is meant to be applied after the existing patches (just add the line epatch "${FILESDIR}"/joydevs.patch at the end of src_unpack()).
Has this patch been sent upstream yet?
Yeah, I just did that. http://www.snes9x.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?p=12585#12585 Thanks for your patience...
thanks :)
Patch still applies cleanly atop snes9x-1.43-r1. Nobody really seems to care, however... should this be closed as UPSTREAM?
Well, there's 4 members of the games team (with one being a dev less than a month) and there's ~800 games packages. Needless to say, it might be a while before we get to it. It has nothing to do with caring and 100% to do with lack of time. We'll get to this bug eventually, as we will with all bugs filed. Sometimes it just takes us a while, especially on packages which we don't personally use. Have a little patience, please. Yes, I know it has been a really long time since you've posted this bug, but we also have over 500 other bugs to go through, quite a few older than this one.
looks like 1.50 includes this fix
