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# Gamecube ASCII Keyboard Controller Usage Example
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This is a very bare-bones project that shows how to read the [Gamecube ASCII Keyboard Controller](https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/ASCII_Keyboard_Controller)
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using devkitPPC and libogc (from [devkitPro](https://devkitpro.org/), of course)
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Currently, libogc contains no support for reading keyboard input from this keyboard controller, and only somewhat
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"wonky" support for detecting it. Though, to be fair to the libogc authors, my feeling of "wonky support" for detecting
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the presence of a keyboard controller could very well just be due to libogc's SI API being undocumented.
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The **only** working example of any Gamecube code that could read this keyboard is located in the [gc-linux sources](https://github.com/DeltaResero/GC-Wii-Linux-Kernels/blob/GC-Wii-Linux-Kernel-3.15.y-EOL/drivers/input/si/gcn-si.c)
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but, since it is a driver implemented in the Linux kernel, it basically re-implements the SI functionality that libogc
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provides so it is of _somewhat_ limited direct use, but still useful to read anyway.
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The only other pieces of documentation for this keyboard controller can be found on the
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[Yet Another Gamecube Documentation](http://hitmen.c02.at/files/yagcd/yagcd/index.html) website. Specifically,
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[section 9](http://hitmen.c02.at/files/yagcd/yagcd/chap9.html#sec9) and [section 5.8](http://hitmen.c02.at/files/yagcd/yagcd/chap5.html#sec5.8)
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are both useful. However, the explanations can be fairly light for the un-initiated (a.k.a. me).
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Anyway!
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The code in this repository is the result of bashing my head against this. It has **only** been tested on real
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hardware. More specifically, on my launch-day Nintendo Wii and keyboard controller model ASC-1901PO. I have not done
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any testing on Dolphin whatsoever.
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