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[Paco]

Hey there! I'm using the standard sequence for reading the controller:

[Brunni]

It seems that sceCtrlReadBufferPositive waits the VBlank, so it's very slow, but sceCtrlPeekBufferPositive doesn't. Else, they are identical (sceCtrlPeekBufferPositive also fills your SceCtrlData). So what you should do is simply:

[Fanjita]

If that doesn't work, you could always consider using the controller latch functions. I haven't seen any documentation on how they work, but having looked at some of the values output alongside the standard ctrl read functions, I think it's something like this:

There are latch types for various key operations : make (press), break (release), I forget the others.

You clear the latches on the type you're interested in, using the setLatch function, then at some later point in time you can just read with the getLatch function to see if the appropriate button was pressed (the button bit masks are the same in the latch functions as the read functions).

I guess this is only useful for keypresses where you don't care too much about realtime response (i.e. it only tells you if they pressed a key since you last reset the latch, rather than if it is currently held).

One other thing you could experiment with : perhaps the setSampleCycle call controls the wait for vblank?

[Paco]

[Fanjita]

It's useful for not consuming too much CPU when waiting in a "please press a button to continue" loop, I guess.