Would you choose 4 Player or Rumble support?
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Would you choose 4 Player or Rumble support?
My 4 player code is already done, I have not been able to release the DC port yet as I cannot get port 3 to work, just ports 1,2, & 4.
After a quick discussion with Roel, Beats of Rage programmer, its come to my attention that the original Beats of Rage supports all 4 dreamcast pads (though only two players).
However the Rumble pack version that OpenBOR is compiled with seems to only support pads one and two (and pad 4 with a hack, but not pad 3).
I'm not sure if this is the pad code or the compiler used in the toolchain, but if it came to the crunch, would you guys be willing to give up rumble support (at least temporarily) to allow 4 players?
After a quick discussion with Roel, Beats of Rage programmer, its come to my attention that the original Beats of Rage supports all 4 dreamcast pads (though only two players).
However the Rumble pack version that OpenBOR is compiled with seems to only support pads one and two (and pad 4 with a hack, but not pad 3).
I'm not sure if this is the pad code or the compiler used in the toolchain, but if it came to the crunch, would you guys be willing to give up rumble support (at least temporarily) to allow 4 players?
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The reason I ask is that before, I released a version of OpenBOR without rumble support and immediately got a bunch of people complaining about the lack of it.
I'm not 100% on this yet, I need to verify this tomorrow, but I believe the modifications made to BOR to allow the rumble pack actually broke the reading of the pad 3 and 4, so its quite possible it may never return. I'd like to think that once I have the 4 pads working again as they did in original BOR then I should be able to reinstate it, but I'm working with someone else (Neil Corlett's) code and my DC programming skills aren't as sharp as they are for DOS/Windows.
On the plus side, I finally retreived my DC and 4 pads from my parents house back in the country so I can test code myself now instead of sending it over the net to whoever is awake at the time. Hopefully I should be able to report back to you guys tomorrow with good news.
I'm not 100% on this yet, I need to verify this tomorrow, but I believe the modifications made to BOR to allow the rumble pack actually broke the reading of the pad 3 and 4, so its quite possible it may never return. I'd like to think that once I have the 4 pads working again as they did in original BOR then I should be able to reinstate it, but I'm working with someone else (Neil Corlett's) code and my DC programming skills aren't as sharp as they are for DOS/Windows.
On the plus side, I finally retreived my DC and 4 pads from my parents house back in the country so I can test code myself now instead of sending it over the net to whoever is awake at the time. Hopefully I should be able to report back to you guys tomorrow with good news.
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I know I own at least 6 rumble packs, but it would be good for more people to play at once than to have a little shakin' goin' on.
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