dshadoff
commented
4 months ago Follow-up for item 2) above: liberis/libpcfx uses "in.w" (input whole word from a port) to read joypads, and both half-words are read fine by mednafen, so it must take certain memory ranges and assume that full-word accesses must be broken into multiple halfword accesses for those ranges.
1) When controller scan in in progress (~100usec in length), bit 0 (value 1) is high, and bit 3 (value 8) is low.
Current expectation is that these transition simultaneously (i.e. "value 1 -> value 8", not "1 -> 0 -> 8", and not "1 ->9 -> 8").
This needs to be confiirmed on an actual machine. If there is a transitional value, it would be held only for a brief moment which may be difficult to witness, so current implementation is an adequate representation.
2) Mednafen does not appear to have full-word read/write io-handler implementations for controller ports.
It is not clear whether these operations take place as (multiple) implicit halfword-read/writes, or whether they produce bad results.
Needs to be investigated.