Hi atrac17,
Cheers for the comments on the adapter, I'm so glad the hours of work soldering didn't go to waste!
I know you mentioned at some point you intend to work on a separate firmware which will be compatible with the Ikari Warriors core, ultimately this may end up having to build 2 separate adapters. I'm sure you would have already thought of this if it was possible but is it feasible to code 2 different firmwares on just the one PICO and then have the PICO look for separate unused input pin to be grounded which will instruct the PICO to select different versions of firmware coding, one to cater for SNK68 core games and once grounded jump to the Ikari Warrior firmware code?.
Also something I noticed, due to how the rotational part of the joystick works, i.e. grounding each pin in turn and constantly keeping this pin grounded until a new rotation pin is selected then this results in a small side effect when the adapter is plugged whilst performing a script.
For example, when performing 'update_all' then this ends up producing a keyboard character in the linux window like it's being constantly held down. I think spotUP noticed this condition when using his keyboard mapper program to test his adapter.
I doubt anything can be done about it as that's the nature of the controller's functionality and how the those 12 keys are being assigned to the 12 controller directions within the PICO coding.
I haven't tested fully whether this affects any scripts from working properly, but if it does, then rather then unplug the adapter I may be inclined to install a cut switch to the GND wire of the rotational joystick header in order to switch off the joystick when performing scripts.
Amazing Work! I'm so glad this got Released.
