@Aywren Knowing Nintendo, the Switch 2 will most likely disappoint gamers who can only think in terms of speed and graphics power. I’m looking forward to the mouse functionality and, hopefully, better joysticks. The latter is a deal breaker for me unless they cut the price of new Joy-Cons in half.
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Turns out my PC was too recent to play nice with a PCI Sound blaster game port; older Dell with Debian 12 and janky setup to the rescue. I managed to successfully test all 5 analog joysticks and half the gamepads at least as two button game controllers.
Tandy joysticks keep popping up as I unpack. Didn't realize I'd collected so many over the years.
Okay, I have two PCI SoundBlaster cards with a gameport - both cards work fine as sound cards on Ubuntu 24.04, but no success using a joystick on the gameport.
Anyone know of a live usb Linux distro version that supports the legacy gameport? Preferably something that is less than 15 years old. Only doing this to test old joysticks/gamepads so it doesn't have to be good at anything else.
Thank you.
Edit: please only answer if you have personal experience with the above (PC gameport controllers on Linux); looking up possible solutions on search engines and testing them out is something I've already done, which is why I'm asking here.
Brain and heart not in it today, so I bought stuff I don't need - a lot of old joysticks on goodwill. There's only two of them I actually want, will sell the rest after I test them once they get here.
The weirdest joystick you'll see today
I was bored and learned something new about Hall Effect joysticks...
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