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I dont expect this to work. This is because most games use direct hardware registers (CIA chip) that are 'hard wired' to the internal joystickports.
I'm not sure about OS friendly games..
All the classic games use direct hardware access, so no chance using USB joysticks. For the same reason, you still want a Micromys as mouse adapter (or a genuine Amiga mouse), because anything that's not OS-friendly will require something that's attached to the physical mouse port. Further, since Gaming on classic machines is often a matter of frame-precision, USB isn't exactly the best idea, as nothing is as fast as direct hardware access. While USB may take as long as 100ms to update (five PAL frames!), joystick movements are available to software in less than 280ns on OCS/ECS machines, and about 4.4µs on AGA machines. Fire buttons have a delay of 1.4µs - all MUCH faster than USB can ever be.
most games use direct hardware registers (CIA chip)
CIA chips only handle the fire button. Joystick directions are handled by the Denis/Lisa chip. There is no piece of software that can "inject" values into these registers while a non-OS-friendly game is running.
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