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LÖVE ported to the web using Emscripten, updated to the latest Emscripten and LÖVE (v11.5)
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Could not initialize SDL joystick subsystem (Gamepads not supported) on firefox #41

Open abhimonk opened 3 years ago

abhimonk commented 3 years ago

My game does not use any joystick-related functionality, it only uses love.keypressed and love.keyreleased. When building (using the -c flag) and running in firefox, I get the following error in a popup window:

An error occurred before the game window could be initialised. Please check the console!

When checking the console, I see the following message Could not initialize SDL joystick subsystem (Gamepads not supported)

The game runs fine in chrome with the -c flag, no issues. This only seems to happen on firefox. Is there a special way I need to handle input to resolve this? I've checked my project and I don't have any gamepad support enabled, I only use basic keyboard functions from love2D. Is there a way around this? I'm using firefox version 91.0.

EDIT: On second look, it seems to work fine on itch.io with the web version, despite throwing the above error when running it through a local webserver. Perhaps it has something to do with my local server? I'm using npx http-server to run the game locally in a browser, but when I run it through itch.io, it seems to work fine.

kalbfled commented 3 years ago

I ran into this issue too: Ubuntu 20.04, Firefox 91.0. My game also works on Itch.io.

rameshvarun commented 2 years ago

This is likely due to browsers limiting certain APIs to be available on HTTPS origins only.

You can work around this by adding t.modules.joystick = false to your conf.lua