[eugenebrooks]

The operator controls for this years game easily exceed
8 digital inputs. If you have a 1 of N selection, you can
do this with a pot on an analog input. You can emulate
the same thing with switches and resistors.

As an alternative to another Cypress board, you could use
the hardware from a USB game stick. eStop Robotics
had one, the CCI, but it is already out of stock. This is
not a surprise as more than 8 digital inputs will likely
be common this year.

If you get another logitech joystick you
will find that the actual USB interface is a small card
that you can carefully extract, reverse engineer the
wiring for and use for 11 more digital inputs, 9 of
which will be accessible by splicing the fine wires,
and the the last two by removing and soldering wires
for two surface mount switches.

The Cypress card/driver does have its gremlins, but it
does not appear that the joystick driver shares them.

Eugene