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I'm not familiar with the hardware at hand, but an example is how the PS/2 port on a computer is interrupt based. Where you press a button and it informs the cpu of the button press. I was curious if the hardware you're working with has something akin to that.
The SNES uses shift registers on the controller. Polling it requires reading the registers to get the current state.