Joypad Code Executed At Startup?

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puppydrum64
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Joypad Code Executed At Startup?

Post by puppydrum64 » Mon May 24, 2021 2:14 am

I was fiddling with the Joystick test rom for Neo Geo and ran into this problem, but I seem to recall something similar happening to me on Commodore 64 and Gameboy Advance so I'm not sure which board this belongs in but anyway...

The Joypad routine doesn't check the buttons on Neo Geo (I believe it had 4 but I don't quite recall) and I wanted to see if I could add that functionality in. I decided to use something simple- have the background color change when you press A. Weird thing is, when the game boots, the background has already changed before pressing any buttons! If I comment out the part where the background changes when pressing A, the background appears as normal. To keep things brief, I will only include the original palette setup code and the input handler. I haven't done anything with Commodore 64 or GBA in a while but I seem to remember having the same problem on those systems as well (I've never had this happen on the NES and I think it's because its controller works differently)

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	;        -RGB			;Color Num:
	move.w #$000F,$401FFE	;0 - Background color
	move.w #$0FF0,$400022	;1
	move.w #$00FF,$400024	;2
	move.w #$0F00,$400026	;3
	move.w #$0FF0,$40003E	;15 - Font
	
...	
	btst #0,d3
	bne JoyNotUp		;Jump if UP not pressed
	subq.w #1,d1		;Move Y Up the screen
JoyNotUp: 	
	btst #1,d3
	bne JoyNotDown		;Jump if DOWN not pressed
	addq.w #1,d1		;Move Y DOWN the screen

JoyNotDown: 	
	btst #2,d3
	bne JoyNotLeft		;Jump if LEFT not pressed
	subq.w #1,d0		;Move X Left

JoyNotLeft: 	
	btst #3,d3
	bne JoyNotRight		;Jump if RIGHT not pressed
	addq.w #1,d0		;Move X Right
JoyNotRight: 	
	btst #4,d3			;Jump if A not pressed
	bne JoyNotA
	;        -RGB			;Color Num:
	move.w #$0006,$401FFE	;0 - Background color
	move.w #$0FF0,$400022	;1
	move.w #$00FF,$400024	;2
	move.w #$0F00,$400026	;3
	move.w #$0FF0,$40003E	;15 - Font
JoyNotA:
	btst #5,d3			;Jump if B not pressed
	bne JoyNotB

JoyNotB:
	btst #6,d3			;Jump if C not pressed
	bne JoyNotC
	
JoyNotC:
	btst #7,d3			;Jump if D not pressed
	bne JoyNotD
	
JoyNotD:
	move.w d1,(PlayerY)
	move.w d0,(PlayerX)
	
;X Boundary Check - if we go <0 we will end up back at &FF
	
	cmp.w #40,d0
	bcs PlayerPosXOk		
	jmp PlayerReset		;Player out of bounds - Reset!
PlayerPosXOk

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