Looking at the described protocol it seems the SNES controller uses a simple 16-bit parallel-in-serial-out shift register - and a quick Google confirmed that.
This means the timing is almost certainly quite loose, and there's a pretty decent chance you might even be able to poll it as the 1kHz "needed" for "serious" gaming. And it'd be pretty trivial to offload the readout to the MCU's SPI peripheral.
This means the timing is almost certainly quite loose, and there's a pretty decent chance you might even be able to poll it as the 1kHz "needed" for "serious" gaming. And it'd be pretty trivial to offload the readout to the MCU's SPI peripheral.