Null controller option

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In the input settings each port must be set to pad or teamplayer. There is
no "nothing plugged in" option. This (maybe?) affects at least one game,
X-men 2. In this game the controller settings determine the character
selected for the first level. This may be related to GM2.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by dammi...@hotmail.com on 24 Mar 2009 at 7:52

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This duplicates functionality specified by the GM2 movie file format.

Original comment by Upth...@gmail.com on 24 Mar 2009 at 8:05

• Changed state: Duplicate

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I think I misused the Duplicate status there. Really this is it's own issue 
which GM2
should be marked as being blocked by.

Original comment by Upth...@gmail.com on 24 Mar 2009 at 8:16

• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Priority-High, Type-Enhancement

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For what is worth, the X-Men 2 game is only indirectly affected by this: 
characters are actually selected based on a hardware timer which is 
consisitently initialized in Gens but was unpredictable in the real console 
(being related to the TV synch signals). The presence/absence of controllers 
(or 6-button controllers), as well as software routines in the game to filter 
"invalid" input (L+R and U+D) slightly changes timings, causing the hardware 
timer to have a different value and giving a different character.

This should still block issue 5, though, but simply because GM2 format 
specifies it.

Original comment by marz...@gmail.com on 28 May 2014 at 4:58