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The official Innovation FIRST answer is that the 2003 controller supports autonomous, and if you get the 2002 controller upgraded, it will also support autonomous. But through the course of our testing we used old robot controllers and were surprised to see that they worked in autonomous mode. IFI may have modified the firmware somehow, but the old controllers certainly run autonomous code. As Jeff said, the auton_mode flag is just a bit in PB_mode and that bit is set correctly in older controllers.

Just be warned that since autonomous isn't officially supported in older controllers, you may see unexpected behavior.