2018-01-05, 15:09
Bliss-Box 4-Play is a a new universal gamepad adapter is now nativly supported by RetroArch, any chance for Kodi support too in a similar way in order to support four players on one of these converter boxes?
"RetroArch has support for many adapters and the ability to add countless more, however, it does so by mapping per adapter. Similarly, the 4-Play also supports a large number of controllers but outputs them as one device. Previously, RetroArch could not map each game pad because of this. Fortunately, the 4-Play was designed with this in mind and has a built in API any project could take advantage of without the need of drivers. In this update of RetroArch each pad seen by the 4-Play is read in to RetroArch appending the pad type to the cfg file found during controller detection.
This is just the beginning and there is a road leading to amazing potential with the 4-Play adapter. Using the same API mechanism, we could expect to see but not limited to: native game pad communication with Gamecube and Dreamcast, direct memory card support and LCD screen writing, support for all 12 Playstation 2 pressure buttons, and more. The latest version of the 4-play firmware is required and you must configure your 4-play with the API tool available on the Bliss-Box page for download.
In addition the new firmware from Bliss-Box gives each player a unique USB ID. This allows players to be specific to the physical ports. Each USB name has a number indicating the player order."
Bliss-Box 4-Play currently supports the following controller ports but more controller ports can be added with new cables and firmware updates:
- https://www.libretro.com/index.php/bliss...n-is-here/
- http://skunx7.wixsite.com/bliss-box
- https://www.facebook.com/blissboxadapter/
"RetroArch has support for many adapters and the ability to add countless more, however, it does so by mapping per adapter. Similarly, the 4-Play also supports a large number of controllers but outputs them as one device. Previously, RetroArch could not map each game pad because of this. Fortunately, the 4-Play was designed with this in mind and has a built in API any project could take advantage of without the need of drivers. In this update of RetroArch each pad seen by the 4-Play is read in to RetroArch appending the pad type to the cfg file found during controller detection.
This is just the beginning and there is a road leading to amazing potential with the 4-Play adapter. Using the same API mechanism, we could expect to see but not limited to: native game pad communication with Gamecube and Dreamcast, direct memory card support and LCD screen writing, support for all 12 Playstation 2 pressure buttons, and more. The latest version of the 4-play firmware is required and you must configure your 4-play with the API tool available on the Bliss-Box page for download.
In addition the new firmware from Bliss-Box gives each player a unique USB ID. This allows players to be specific to the physical ports. Each USB name has a number indicating the player order."
Bliss-Box 4-Play currently supports the following controller ports but more controller ports can be added with new cables and firmware updates:
- Super Nintendo Entertainment System ( snes )
- Nintendo Entertainment System ( nes )
- Nintendo Virtual Boy
- Nintendo 64 ( n64 )
- Nintendo GameCube ( gc )
- Nintendo Wii Remote Expansion Port
- Sony PlayStation/PlayStation 2 ( psx ps2 )
- DB9 (Sega SG-1000, Sega Master System, Sega Genesis, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga CD32, ColecoVision, Mattel Intellivision, Amstrad GX-4000, Panasonic 3DO, Bally Astrocade, Sinclair ZX Spectrum)
- Sega Saturn
- Sega Dreamcast ( dc )
- DH15 (Atari 5200, SNK Neo Geo AES)
- Atari Jaguar
- NEC PC Engine / TurboGrafx 16 (Full/Mini)
- NEC PC-FX
- GCE Vectrex
- Apple Bandai Pippin ATMARK