USB HID and/or keyboard support

[Former user]

Original issue 380 created by Lakster37 on 2014-06-07T22:58:00.000Z:

I recently picked up a Retrode which reads SNES and Genesis cartridges and loads the ROMs over USB acting as a standard USB mass storage device. Because of this, Genesis Plus GX can read the ROM from the cartridge directly (which is pretty cool!). However, it also has two Genesis and two SNES controller ports which can act either as USB HID gamepads or as USB keyboards. Obviously supporting USB gamepads would probably be preferable (considering all of the different USB adapters out there that could also allow for use of "real" controllers) but if USB Keyboard support is easier/more feasible, that would at least allow the Retrode's controller ports to also work.

Here's a link to a post on the Retrode forums which better explains the issue: http://forum.retrode.org/index.php/topic,86.msg710.html#msg710

Note: I saw in the features list that GenPlus already supports USB Mice to emulate the Genesis mouse, but I couldn't find any info about USB game pads (or keyboards), so please ignore this if this feature is already available - I couldn't find any way to make it recognize the USB adapter I have.

[Former user]

Comment # 1 originally posted by ekeeke31 on 2014-06-09T21:48:42.000Z:

USB gamepad are not supported by libogc so it's unlikely they are going to be ever supported by wii homebrew apps. It would require writing specific drivers, which is out of the scope of an emulator anyway.

USB keyboards are supported but I do not own any and i don't have a retrode either so I have no idea how retrode controllers should be accessed through this and no mean to test it.

If you want to play with original MD controller, the easiest solution is to buy either a gamecube adapter or a wii adapter. Here are some links with adapters I use myself:

http://www.raphnet-tech.com/products/genesis_to_wii/index.php
http://www.brunofreitas.com/node/40