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My pad, an official M$ Controller S works fine in Xmugen. Its when I change the video settings in the mugen.cfg or load a character that has incorrect letter casing that I get the joy2key error but the error screen doesn't say anything about the vendor or product ID for the controller. I think instead of the Linux Mugen displaying an error, joy2key gives a error instead (loop error) even though the controller is working fine.
I'm pretty sure this is what's going on now because I've only been using S controllers, and even since removing the memory card, I still get those occasionally. I've gotten better compatability now, but still have controller issues. Something that has been ongoing (and only complicated by the memory card earlier) is that when I have 2 controllers plugged in, whichever joystick I start navigating the menu with first will lock up the dpad after a few seconds. I don't get this with only 1 joystick plugged in, and once again both are S controllers, so I have no idea what it's deal is. I'm also now experiencing a frozen screen when I get to a Vs screen, and I've never had mugen do that before.
As far as the ongoing battle about the Mugen community in general, let me say this: What if other "fan" scenes decided to be stingy with their work and only release it to someone who had something they wanted in return (which is usually the case with Mugen) or if it was pm'd to them? Programming emulators, and dumping roms takes lots of work and time but yet you don't see their authors hoarding them all to themselves sending them to a few people who they feel like responding too. From what I've seen, most Mugen authors are afraid of someone fixing or modifying "their" character and then taking credit for it. Sure, the person who releases the newest incarnation will be the one getting the "credit" but this is usually due to the original author's loss of interest in the matter. Look at Xport's emulators, he didn't build them from scratch, he built upon work that others originally started. Do the original author's get mentioned ever? Not really, your first thought is Xport. Alg5 didn't build this XMugen from the ground up, he took was was available and modified it so that people could get more use out of it. Is Elecbyte somewhere shaking their fist screaming bloody murder that someone modified their program? Who cares.
In the end, I don't want to release a torrent so that people can say "Screw you Mugen fags" or to diss the people that put in hard work to make these characters, but to prevent other people from having to spend all of their time screwing with gigs of files that someone "spent years creating" while I'm going to have to spend weeks just to get it to boot on my xbox/pc. It's the whole "do it yourself, I had to" mentality that really pisses me off. Not everyone has the skills/time/desire to fix something that should already work as they are probably working on some other project that you will eventually or already have "leeched" off them. I'm slaving away trying to get a somewhat working game and probably will be for quite some time when someone else that has the knowhow whipped up something in a few minutes and is happily enjoying themselves right now.
