Posted By
MIK
on 2021-07-05
12:12:28
 |  Re: Joypad for plus/4
I'm not 100% sure but I believe 90's console pads do it the other way around, as in a chip in the pad sends a number to the machine. So it doesn't matter how many buttons a pad has because a direction or button in any combination has a number which the computers software interprets as a command. From what I recall, a game might skip say 3 out of every 9 commands sent from a pad to maintain comunication speed...
It's all above me though as I'm not a coder and are just thinking out loud..., if say the Select line in a Plus4 could be used in some way then maybe a chip in a pad could make use of it and with software to make sense of it then any thing could be possible (maybe).
I'll get my coat. 
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