Rotary encoder to act as directional buttons for games

[Ewhizz]

Hi!

I am just wondering if anyone knew whether its possible to program a rotary encoder to be used as a controller input for Odroid-go emulators like Gameboy, NES, etc.

If anyone could point me in the right direction in terms of editing the controller code for the emulators on an Odroid go device I would greatly appreciate it!!

Thanks very much

[odroid]

Just curious,
Which games do you want to play with a rotary encoder?

[Ewhizz]

Outrun for example would be cool with rotary controls, or any simple racing game for that matter

[odroid]

I see.
But I have no idea how to push the encoder events to the emulator input handlers either.

[mctom]

Probably you'd want to emulate taps of left and right arrows as you turn an encoder knob. It's tricky because encoders do not send pulses, but 2-bit gray code waveforms. Thanks to this, the receiver knows which way the encoder is turned.
Whatever reads these waveforms will have to emulate pulses of some credible length in 10-100ms range, which might be tricky. You don't want to just add sleep() to that procedure and hope for the best...

I would probably build hardware that converts encoder waveforms into pulses and wire it parallel to left and right buttons. Hardware is always the solution.

[crashoverride]

If anyone could point me in the right direction in terms of editing the controller code for the emulators on an Odroid go device I would greatly appreciate it!!

For the official build, all the emulators use the same API for input.
https://github.com/OtherCrashOverride/g ... id_input.c

Custom controllers can be implemented by replacing the code here:
https://github.com/OtherCrashOverride/g ... .c#L36-L85

Note that since there are no shared libraries on ESP32, each emulator will need to be recompiled.