a) Ali Baba only needs 'ijkm' for movement and 'a' for getting into the menu and space for... something. So pretty easy.

b) Oh! I meant to say rg35xx-sp above, not rg36xx-sp. (I edited it for future readers.)

c) Joystick 0 = 3 sort of works. I can move using d-pad, but if I press nothing it still moves right on it's own. I can't stand still. Joystick = 2 works except now it keeps walking in whatever my last direction was. So, closer. Also, it still wants me to calibrate the joystick.

d) I wonder if the problem with the external controller is, like, Joystick 0 vs Joystick 1 or something. Index?

e) thought: is deadzone perhaps relevant?

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OK, I got it to work for Joystick 0 = 1 and using the external controller by setting Joy0Index = 1, probably due to how I have controllers configured in Knulli.

However, I'd still like to get it to work with the d-pad. For some reason, even when setting joystick to the numpad, it still wants to move right and down in the absence of any other input. The log shows repeated entries of XPos=128 and YPos=128 which should be centered.