ControlBlock aan rapid button presses

[Anonymous]

I have the ControlBlock setup and wired.

2x 8Way Joysticks and 18 buttons wired (9 for each player), Sticks, buttons and microswitches come from X-Arcade

All the buttons work fine. I can play games like Sonic, Mario, etc..

When I try playing games like Street Fighter, it seems like the system doesn’t recognize rapid button presses.

Example 1: If you choose a player like EHodna or Blanka and rapidly press a punch button, they should do a special move, instead is like I’m just tapping the button.

Example 2: If I choose a player like Ryu/Ken and try to do a special move that involves dragging the controller quickly across multiple directions, it almost never works. It’s like I am just hitting each direction individually.

Is this a delay issue or limitation with the ControlBlock? Is there a setting anywhere to correct it? Or is it an issue with my Joystick/Buttons/Micro-switches?

Thanks.

[petrockblog]

This might be a timing issue with the ControlBlock driver.

Maybe the delay at

https://github.com/petrockblog/ControlBlockService/blob/master/src/controlblock/main.cpp#L72

Should be set to a (much?) smaller value!? You can modify that value and re-run the compilation and installation of the driver.

[Anonymous]

Can you elaborate on how I would update/recompile?

[petrockblog]

I have decreased the delay now and updated the master branch (https://github.com/petrockblog/ControlBlockService/commit/1c14e7f4a35832e21136cd4ddf40ca748557f748). You can Re-install the ControlBlock driver just as described. I have set the delay from 75 ms to 50 ms – this comes with a slightly higher CPU load, but also increases the sampling rate for polling the controller states.

Is it working better for you now?

[Anonymous]

Sorry, work keeps me for spending as much time on this as I want.

It does seem to respond much better now after uninstalling and reinstalling with the update.

Much thanks for the assistance.

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