Update to bsnes v041r03? release.

New WIP.

This adds support for hats and analog buttons, and fixes the centering
code so that it never ends up minimized on Linux at startup. Just went
back to putting the window offscreen before centering, as thanks to
the delay in propagating window messages in Xorg, you don't even
notice the flicker on Linux.

You can now have up to 8 hats, 16 axes, 16 analog buttons and 96
digital buttons. Just to future proof things. If your controller has
more than that ... then I demand you send it to me before I'll support
it.

SDL input for Linux should work fully: hats allow four unique inputs,
axes two and analog buttons one. It calibrates to tell the difference
when you start the emulator.

DirectInput doesn't work so well. The DIJOYSTATE2 struct has a ton of
analog inputs, but only lX/lY map to the first stick, and lRx/lRy to
the analog buttons. But I can't even detect those properly because for
some bastardized reason, polling them at startup returns 0, 0. It
isn't until the user presses at least one button that the controller
'snaps out of it' and returns the proper +32767,+32767 for the two
buttons.

On the bright side, DI treats POV hats like POV hats. It allows up to
four, so that's what you get. You'll have to deal with that or the
first analog stick for Windows.

Unless there's a DirectInput expert here, not sure I can fix this. The
other inputs are not in DIJOYSTATE2 at all. Yet somehow the control
panel applet can sense them.

Mapping is fully inclusive, for joypad buttons and UI shortcuts, you
can use keyboard buttons, mouse buttons, joypad buttons, joypad axes,
joypad hats, joypad analog buttons. For mouse / super scope axes, you
can use mouse axes and joypad axes. Buttons aren't bi-directional and
lack the precision to support the mouse / SS / Justifier to any usable
degree, and analog buttons are uni-directional.

> Have you thought about rendering plugins for sound, input, video?


Would rather not. Cross-platform dynamic library support is terrible.

> Hmm must be "spin the black circle" as far as I can tell.


Yeah, here. I posted about it here a while back. Probably should've
mentioned the name.

> Yeah. That cheating nonsense discourages me from really playing any
> online games with top scores like that. It sucks all the fun out of
> it.


It's usually okay when it's painfully obvious. I cleared every level
at least a dozen times, and took advantage of every collision quirk
there was to get time there. For there to be a > 30 second leap
between #4 and #5 (and #1-4 all from the same person), it's pretty
obvious that he was cheating in some way.

I consider the best time to be 03:58, and 04:06 (edit: 4:01:97 now) is
close enough to make me happy :D

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