Add Support for BlissBox 4-Play

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
linux
Domain
game-dev

Research direction

Start with the BlissBox FAQ and the linked RetroPie forum report, then inspect the existing controller-support path in RetroPie-Setup. Determine which 4-Play controller modes and platforms must work, and define completion as reliable support verified with the relevant wired controllers.

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Description

The BlissBox 4-Play is a wired controller adapter which supports pretty much every wired controller known to the emulation community. Currently I believe the device is supported on Windows and Linux based operating sytems, possibly Mac as well.

Here is a FAQ from their site about details:
http://skunx7.wix.com/bliss-box#!home/mainPage

I wrote a post on their forum and it appears that support did exist to some extent on RetroPie but it was never 100% supported.
http://blissbox.freeforums.org/blissbox-4-play-retropie-3-7-not-working-t410.html

This is not a very popular device currently but this is a company which has been trying to grow and spread the word about their device to the emulation community. As an owner of the device, I would say it works very well for Windows. It's not cheap at $120, but it provides a lot of flexibility.

This is the perfect device for the RetroPie Project.

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