# Analog joystick on the PyGamer

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**Category:** Arcade\
**Created:** [August 14, 2019, 3:46pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/analog-joystick-on-the-pygamer/444 "2019-08-14T15:46:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![kwx](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/kwx/32/1545_2.png) [@kwx](https://forum.makecode.com/u/kwx)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2021, 5:54pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/analog-joystick-on-the-pygamer/444/11 "2021-02-26T17:54:23Z")

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> [@auxin](#):
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> When it crashes it is just freezing completely up. I can’t bring up the menu and it doesn’t give the frowny face either.

I sometimes got apparent hangs on a PyGamer also when trying to use the “analog in test” program, the numbers simply stopped updating. This is inconsistent, just now it failed the first time I tried it, but then hasn’t hung again for the next several attempts.

Here’s my numbers:

center: ranges around -10 to 2,14 to 17  
… and now it hung again as I tried to get readings.

Is there anything we can do to diagnose this or to help get this working more reliably? I’d love to add analog joystick controls to [Space Rocks 3D](https://forum.makecode.com/t/space-rocks-3d/6334/33).

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