Multitap support?

[Holzhaus]

Multitap seems currently not supported: I'm unable to play Bomberman with more than 2 players, although It does work with the snes9x-next core. Is this a planned feature?

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[barbudreadmon]

I think 9bfbd02 is supposed to fix this, but no clue how it is supposed to work. This is an annoying issue since snes9x/snes9x-next libretro cores have multiple issues on rpi2 right now (segfaults with -O3, freezes on a few multitap games, ...)

[FD-]

Just to correct what @barbudreadmon wrote above: The linked commit was not supposed to fix problems with multitap, and it didn't.

[FD-]

It would be nice to get some information about what could be expected from the current multitap implementation: In the code, it seems like it would be supported, though I couldn't get it to work.

In order to also allow proper mapping of controllers, I backported the controls code from the snes9x master into snes9x 2002. I was able to get it as far as correctly telling games when a multitap input device was connected. However, games don't seem to recognise input from the controllers that are attached to the multitap.

I have uploaded my attempts to GitHub. Do you guys probably have any ideas what I might have missed?

(I'm aware that you probably wouldn't like to see c++ introduced into the code base, but I just noticed snes9x 2010 has a c version of that code (controls.c) that should be relatively easy to use instead, once general functionality has been proven.)

[FD-]

Any news on this?