List of WHDLoad slaves with enhanced joystick/joypad support

[earok]

(Apologies, this list is unfinished, I'll try to tidy it up and finish it off over the next few days)


Here's an attempt to compile a list of all WHDLoad slaves that have added second button support (CD32 or Mega Drive pad etc), or have been updated in some way to be less keyboard dependant (eg Jaguar XJ220 has the ability to skip the language selection screen). Please let me know what's missing or incorrect on the list.

Thanks to everyone who pointed out missing entries!

1. 1943 Bomb and menu controls
2. Aaargh (Arcadia) Second button support, keyboard still required for arcade actions?
3. Action Fighter Pause, abort and quit controls
4. After the War Full joystick control for CD32
5. Agony 2-button joystick support (displays spells like spacebar)
6. Aladdin Extensive CD32 pad support
7. Alien 3 Space bar weapon change has been remapped to CD32/Megadrive Joypads
8. Alien Breed Extensive CD32 pad support
9. Alien Storm Support for smart bomb, pause, quit, abort and skip level
10. Anarchy Support for smart bomb, pause, quit and abort
11. Another World 2nd/blue joystick button can be used alongside to "C" to enter a code
12. Aquanaut Cycle weapons, quit, pause and abort
13. Astro Marine Corps Support for second fire button (grenades)
14. Baal Display, refuel, weapons modes, quit, pause and abort
15. Ballistix Second button support to access to option screens
16. Bart Vs The World Trainer options, pause, quit and abort
17. Battle Squadron Menu options
18. Blastaball (Arcadia) Two button joystick control (keyboard still required for arcade controls)
19. Bloodwych General CD32 pad support
20. Car Vup Special weapon, pause, brake, quit
21. Cavemania Blue button for jump
22. Chuck Rock Jump, pause, quit, trainer options
23. Commando Pause, quit, trainer options
24. Cosmic Spacehead Selecting command
25. Creatures Pause, quit, trainer options
26. Count Duckula Quit, pause, abort options
27. Crackdown Quit, pause, super bomb, abort, center
28. Cybernoid
29. Cybernoid 2
30. Damage
31. Defenders of the Earth Extensive CD32 pad support
32. Demon Blue
33. Dennis
34. Desert Strike
35. Dizzy Panic
36. Dyna Blaster Extensive pad support, including remote bomb and trainer
37. Elf
38. Gauntlet 2
39. Ghosts 'n' Goblins 2nd button for jump, added throwing back while jumping abitity
40. Giana Sisters
41. Golden Axe
42. Gold of the Aztecs
43. Fighting Soccer Extensive CD32 pad support
44. Fire and Brimstone
45. Flashback
46. Harlequin
47. Heroes of the Lance
48. Hong Kong Phooey
49. Horror Zombies from the Crypt
50. Hybris
51. Immortal Second button controls
52. Jaguar XJ220
53. Kid Gloves 2
54. Killing Game Show
55. Legacy
56. Lionheart
57. Lionheart Demo
58. Mega Lo Mania
59. Mega Twins
60. Menace
61. Midnight Resistance
62. New Zealand Story
63. Ninja Mission (Arcadia) 2nd button support for sword attack
64. North and South
65. Ork
66. Pegasus
67. Project X Special Edition
68. Rainbow Islands
69. Road Wars (Arcadia)
70. Ruff N Tumble
71. RVF Honda
72. Satan Second button support
73. Shadow of the Beast 3 Extensive CD32 pad support
74. Shinobi
75. Silkworm Two button control for Jeep
76. Skull and Crossbones
77. Slam Tilt
78. Snow Bros
79. Space Assault Extensive CD32 pad support, including smart bomb
80. Storm Lord
81. SWIV
82. Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles (Mirrorsoft/Probe)
83. Thexder Second button activates shield
84. Time Soldier
85. Toki
86. Toobin
87. Treasure Island Dizzy
88. Virtual Karting 2
89. Vixen
90. Watchtower
91. Xenon
92. Yo Joe
93. Zool
94. Z-Out Extra pad controls for player 1

[liviux76]

Great list, thanks.
I think that R-Type and R-Type 2 as well support 2 buttons.

[Solo Kazuki]

Ghosts 'n Goblins - 2nd button for jump, added throwing back while jumping abitity
Ninja Mission (Arcadia) - 2nd button support for sword attack

[Shatterhand]

R-Type 2 had 2 button support without WHDLoad, it's built in the game.

For some reason none of my Mega-Drive pads work with WHDLoad, the 2nd button doesn't work. Even with games that ORIGINALLY supported 2 button pads like R-Type 2 and Apidya. (Though R-Type 2 sometimes work, sometimes doesn't, I dunno why. Apidya I could never make work )

[earok]

Originally Posted by Solo Kazuki

Ghosts 'n Goblins - 2nd button for jump, added throwing back while jumping abitity
Ninja Mission (Arcadia) - 2nd button support for sword attack

Thanks mate

[Retro-Nerd]

Aladdin

- CD32 joypad buttons supported. Now fighting, jump and throw apples is mapped to the joypad. Plus the typical quit/some trainer options via pad.

[earok]

Originally Posted by Retro-Nerd

Aladdin

- CD32 joypad buttons supported. Now fighting, jump and throw apples is mapped to the joypad. Plus the typical quit/some trainer options via pad.

Whoops. Stupid of me to neglect that one

[jotd]

This 2-button thing has no end: it seems to depend on the joystick. The code to read the 2nd button is also mysteriously randomly working/not working.
Same thing goes for CD32 pad / honeybeed and the infamous "tst.b $bfee01" routine that works mostly on CD32 but not on all amigas. Been fighting a while with this, and kind of gave it up.

If you want to see some other slaves with 2nd button support submit a mantis bug (please tag it with "2nd button")
ATM 9 items in the base:

FirstSamurai
SecondSamurai
Ziriax
ChuckRock2
Stardust
MoonshineRacers
GhoulsNGhosts
UniversalWarrior
Silkworm

[Shatterhand]

The real weird thing is when it doesn't work with games that need no WHDLoad to support 2 button. R-Type 2 and Apidya both worked with my 2 button stick back in 1992 on my A600 with no WHDload or anything, and they aren't working with WHDLoad.

Ghosts 'n Goblins - 2nd button for jump, added throwing back while jumping abitity

Throwing back while jumping make the amiga version near arcade-perfect. Whoever did this deserves a medal

[jotd]

Have you tried with NOVBRMOVE?
Could be an interrupt problem. If it works like this, would be worth telling Bert

[Shatterhand]

No, don't even know what "NOVBRMOVE" is

[jotd]

A tooltype/switch for whdload.
It prevents WHDLoad to install a relocated VBR which monitors/redirects to original vector table.
Without it, no debugkey, sometimes no quitkey, no monitoring, but also less interferences.

ex command line

whdload rtype.slave PRELOAD NOVBRMOVE

Ghost n Goblins jump&turn: that would be me

[Shatterhand]

I'll try that later.

For now, here is your medal:

[Shatterhand]

Originally Posted by jotd

If you want to see some other slaves with 2nd button support submit a mantis bug (please tag it with "2nd button")

Is this ok ?

http://mantis.whdload.de/view.php?id=3344

[Shatterhand]

I formatted my CF and installed the new version of WHDLoad.

It seems like the 2nd button is working OK with this new version.

In the other hand, R-Type 2, Mortal Kombat and Apidya which used to work is not working (Apidya gave me a lot of static instead of the great music in the title, then crashed before loading the 1st level. Mortal Kombat crashed before showing up anything, R-Type 2 showed me 3 fading in-fading out white screens, then crashed).

I still have to find out if I did something wrong when installing stuff (I put all the Kickstarts files I used to have on the devs:kickstart folder), or if this new version is more troublesome for my setup indeed.

[Retro-Nerd]

A lot of games needs Fastram. So get a turbocard or at least a small memory expansion. Mortal Kombat e.g. needs 1 MB Chipram and additional 2 MB for preload.

[Shatterhand]

This is new? Because it used to work on my old version of WHDLoad. All those games were working on the previous version I had (which I believe was very old)

[Retro-Nerd]

Mortal Kombat too?

REQUIREMENTS: - Slave requires WHDLoad V10+. - Disk game requires 1Mb chip mem (+1.95Mb other memory for preload option)

I formatted my CF and installed the new version of WHDLoad.

Have you set the proper Max Transfer value of 1fe00 after the format? Otherwise you get corrupted files and most games won't work anymore.

[Retro1234]

I wouldn't use your MD pad anymore get a known working pad and check and make sure your not shorting anything.

[Shatterhand]

Yeah, I loaded Mortal Kombat before. But I didn't use the preload option.

No, don't even know what Max Transfer is or how I do setup it up. Do I need to copy the games again after I change this setting ?