Teensy: Keyboard vs Joystick Decision

[chiz]

@Wermy
I see where you're coming from.

Also, one of the reason (and advantage?) using the Teensy as game pad is you get a different and separate button mapping for actual keyboards and another configuration for game pads. I was disoriented at first when I attached a real USB keyboard and EmulationStation was not responding to the arrow keys. That's when I realized bec. I mapped the "keyboard" mapping to the Teensy which uses the alphabetic characters.

I was trying out the Teensy as USB keyboard initially with Terra Cresta in MAME, and this is where I noticed I can't move diagonally. I will re-flash the Teensy with USB keyboard and will re-visit that game.

@Fleder
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I responded to your USB game pad thread. And again, I'm not totally ditching the idea but will probably go the Teensy route at the moment so I can complete the project but I still consider the USB game pad implementation for a later build.
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[Popcorn]

One thing I've noticed is that C64 emulation is impossible without a keyboard. I think this is going to be a deeper question of what emulators we can and can't support using a keyboard vs gamepad. Hmmm

[Robots86]

i think dos games will be the same

[CandyManCriminal]

Frame that board once you replace, it's art

[Fleder]

Frame that board once you replace, it's art

Or better, sell it to me

[Robots86]

Anybody know how i go about programing the teensy as a gamepad?

[Fleder]

Anybody know how i go about programing the teensy as a gamepad?

Anyways, regarding the USB game pad code... It's readily available and can be opened in the Arduino IDE under the menu, File -> Examples -> Teensy -> USB_Joystick -> Buttons

Once opened, flash the Teensy without any modifications and your game pad should be immediately detected under Windows.

[Robots86]

Thanks for the reply. When i was looking earlier the option i could see was for USB keyboard/joystick or something like that. But i couldnt figure out how to access the joystick code. Will have another look later.

[Fleder]

Thanks for the reply. When i was looking earlier the option i could see was for USB keyboard/joystick or something like that. But i couldnt figure out how to access the joystick code. Will have another look later.

Hope that helps: https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/td_joystick.html
Or this: https://learn.adafruit.com/usb-snes-gam ... the-teensy

[Robots86]

Thanks for the links having a read over it now