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Matthew Stanley dde268dc0f input: decouple analog stick from D-pad in analog pad mode
The default controller map folds the left stick onto the D-pad bits
(up=dpup,lefty- … right=dpright,leftx+) so the stick acts as a D-pad
for digital-only games. In ANALOG pad mode that fold is wrong: the
stick already drives the analog axes, and on a real DualShock the
stick and D-pad are independent. A dual-analog title that uses the
D-pad as its own control therefore saw phantom D-pad presses from
every stick movement — and constant presses from stick centre drift.

Ape Escape is the concrete victim: it is locked to analog, its D-pad
left/right rotates the camera, so walking with the left stick (or a
drifting Series-X stick at rest, past the 12%/4000 deadzone) spun the
camera with no D-pad input. Reported by VGEsoterica.

Fix in the framework (class fix, all analog titles inherit): resolve
the effective pad type before building the button word, and when the
pad presents as analog this frame, suppress the LEFTX/LEFTY/RIGHTX/
RIGHTY axis sources as button contributors. Trigger axes (L2/R2) and
button sources are unaffected; digital mode keeps the stick->D-pad
fold (its only outlet there). The physical D-pad still drives the
D-pad bits, so Ape's camera rotate works from the D-pad as intended.
Stick/axis output is byte-for-byte unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-13 12:54:28 -07:00
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