Gamepad adapter causing intermittent issues with MiSTer FPGA setup

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Source: Zaparoo / #mister-fpga

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HDnope (@hdnope) - 2026-01-25 23:50 UTC

Yup, there's a gamepad adapter on another port - if I can reproduce it, or identify more info I'll grab that - just wanted to mention it now in case it was happening to others as well.

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wizzo (@.wizzo) - 2026-01-25 23:01 UTC

My understanding is the same_dir option just makes the core read from the cores original folder name instead of the one set by setname. So the core advertises its own ID but uses the original folder for configs/saves/etc. something like that. It’s not well documented. I can’t think why it would do that. But it’s totally your preference whether it’s there or not. There is definitely no way to tell a core to have a feature off to start and then enable it after some time loaded

wizzo (@.wizzo) - 2026-01-25 23:03 UTC

The best you could do is for that card, add some zapscript to wait a bit and then open the menu and actually navigate and change the option. Not ideal but it would work

wizzo (@.wizzo) - 2026-01-25 23:03 UTC

If there’s some particular mgl configurations you’d like available instead of writing the files manually I’m open to adding some additional launchers

wizzo (@.wizzo) - 2026-01-25 23:05 UTC

I’m also open to adding some way to define keyboard macros like you need to change the settings. Because some other people also requested similar to launch games inside 8bit computer images. But it needs some thought about how to work best

wizzo (@.wizzo) - 2026-01-25 23:06 UTC

Do you have anything else plugged in? And can you please get me a log file ideally after you tried to unplug it a few times and it suddenly works. Then get the file without shutting down the mister from the scripts zaparoo