Comments on: NESpad/SNESpad: Nintendo Joystick Libraries for Arduino

By: JR

JR — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:07:02 +0000

Hey guys,

I use 0015 with a Arduino Mega and some of the buttons of my snes controller don’t work anymore when using the SNESpad_LED sketch?

X and A button and the SNES_L and SNES_R button don’t work. The rest is still working :)

Using the SNESpad_serial all buttons seems to be responding.

Best regards.

By: Rob Hart

Rob Hart — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:23:33 +0000

Hey Guys,

been using this library in Arduino 0013 for quite a while without any problems but since i’ve upgraded to 0015, it compiles and uploads ok but doesnt seem to be working, can anyone confirm this for me?

Cheers Rob.

By: rob duarte

rob duarte — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:39:58 +0000

it sounds like you probably have it wired correctly, but the library was only written for one game pad. i am still hoping to make some changes to this library to make it more useful – i can easily add the ability to connect multiple game pads at the same time. in the meantime, you should be able to tweak it a bit to work with 2 pads. i am completely swamped at the moment but i can tell you that i would probably take the DATA constant (the pin number for data line) in NESpad.cpp and make it a parameter for the constructor instead. That way instead of doing something like “NESpad nintendo=NESpad()” in your code, you could call it like “NESpad(7)” to make an NESpad object that corresponds a game pad with its data line connected to the Arduino’s digital i/o pin 7. sorry if that’s confusing – i’m hoping to integrate everyone’s comments into this library soon .. maybe during spring break.

By: Marti

Marti — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:40:36 +0000

Hi !

I have find this Arduino library very usefull and easy to use.
Thx

But I would like to connect a second nespad (for two players) on the same arduino board.
Actually I have try to use the same Strobe et Clock output and two data input but it’s not working…
Can you help me?
Thx

By: Arduino Tutorials « Think carefully!

Arduino Tutorials « Think carefully! — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:48:52 +0000

[...] I didnt have any sensors available the next tutorial I tried involved a Nintendo Controller(I just happened to have an old controller lying around) Although I sadly never got it working a [...]

By: rob duarte

rob duarte — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:02:48 +0000

Hey Josh, LC didn’t actually have a problem. That’s what the output of that particular example sketch is supposed to look like. (I’m going to be revisiting this library when I get back to my studio in a week and I’ll include more intuitive example sketches I guess). Did you try the other example? As far as the behavior you described, I’m sure there could be a bug in the library but that would be a pretty major problem and I’d think it would have been noticed by now. (Since the library’s ONLY function is to detect a button press, basically!) :) Are you sure everything is wired correctly? If you have a week to wait for me to get back to California, I can probably be of more help.

By: Josh Clark

Josh Clark — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:55:20 +0000

I am having the same problem as LC. When I run the NESpad_serial file, I get long lines of numbers instead of only 8. Through a little testing, I found out that every time you press a button, it always reports that the ‘A’ button is pressed down, even if it is not. This only happens when I press a button, so the ‘A’ button is not stuck or anything. Any help or suggestions? I kinda need a quick fix for this problem.
Thanks

By: John barin

John barin — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:55:21 +0000

Hello and thanks for this release!!
I have been uploading the sketch in arduino and it works.
Then I have tryed linking arduino to pduino (patch made for arduino to communicate with pure data)
Would someone have an alternative to make the nes pas communicate with any other software and if yes how??
For pure data has it got to do with the Firmata to upload in the arduino board.
Greetings from France.

By: rob duarte

rob duarte — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:52:13 +0000

Thanks for the bug report, Rob. I’ve fixed the problem and I’m uploading version 1.1 of both NESpad and SNESpad right now.

By: Rob Hart

Rob Hart — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 06:44:19 +0000

Hello Rahji,

i have been absolutely loving this library!

only problem it’s doesnt seem to work with the new arduino 0012, throws up a heap of errors (see below)

i wonder if anything could be done about this to resolve it??

Many Thanks Rob!

In file included from C:\arduino-0012\hardware\cores\arduino/WProgram.h:4,

c:/arduino-0012/hardware/tools/avr/lib/gcc/../../avr/include/stdlib.h:80: error: expected unqualified-id before ‘int’

c:/arduino-0012/hardware/tools/avr/lib/gcc/../../avr/include/stdlib.h:80: error: expected `)’ before ‘int’

c:/arduino-0012/hardware/tools/avr/lib/gcc/../../avr/include/stdlib.h:111: error: expected unqualified-id before ‘int’

c:/arduino-0012/hardware/tools/avr/lib/gcc/../../avr/include/stdlib.h:111: error: expected `)’ before ‘int’

c:/arduino-0012/hardware/tools/avr/lib/gcc/../../avr/include/stdlib.h:144: error: expected identifier before ‘(’ token

c:/arduino-0012/hardware/tools/avr/lib/gcc/../../avr/include/stdlib.h:144: error: expected `)’ before ‘(’ token

c:/arduino-0012/hardware/tools/avr/lib/gcc/../../avr/include/stdlib.h:144: error: expected ‘,’ or ‘…’ before ‘(’ token

c:/arduino-0012/hardware/tools/avr/lib/gcc/../../avr/include/stdlib.h:144: error: expected initializer before ‘)’ token

c:/arduino-0012/hardware/tools/avr/lib/gcc/../../avr/include/stdlib.h:176: error: ‘__compar_fn_t’ has not been declared

In file included from C:\arduino-0012\hardware\cores\arduino/WProgram.h:6,