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Just spent a happy couple of hours with this, it's great. Mind officially blown, well done and good luck with the next steps.

Some initial thoughts from moving about in it. These are really small things but I wrote them down in case it helps:

- Some 'Read Me' notes in the folder would be helpful. Took me a while to realise I needed to use JoyToKey for my joysick inputs, and had to look in the 'Feedback' forum to solve framerate slowness by changing the config. Alt+Enter for fullscreen was also helpful once I'd read it.

- 'B' to exit menus rather than navigate to exit?

- Hold direction to scroll through letters at name input, rather than tap?

- Options menu (for eg. screen, controls) at Pause screen?

- Indicate where the score you just got is located in the score table after input?

Luxury stuff:

- Slowdown feature in replays?

- Scanlines filter, a bit like in Cho Ren Sha? Would look amazing with these graphics.

Cheers!

boghog4 years ago

Thank you! I'll make sure to write down some notes for that QOL stuff, all very handy and shouldn't take too long to implement. Though, why did you have to use JoyToKey? Does your joystick only use direct input without xinput support? I had to remove dinput because it was buggy, but software like x360ce should be sort out dinput compatibility.

DS_914 years ago

My joystick is a Qanba Q4Raf. Acording to JoyToKey the stick is set up as the right stick on a pad, rather than the left stick. Not sure if that makes a diff, but either way it wasn't being picked up by the game.

Couple more thoughts from last night's session: Pause replays (to write notes!), stay in replays menu after Delete (and maybe Y/N for delete?), reset hi score table. Luxury: save states, or step into replays (as in Akai Katana).

boghog4 years ago

Gotcha. I actually haven't added analog stick support yet so that would explain it, is there maybe a stick-to-dpad mode you could toggle?

Also good suggestions, most of it is on the list, besides savestates which while awesome would require a ton of work. Though I do plan on having "practice mode presets" of sorts that will serve a similar function.

BrianReboot4 years ago (1 edit)

I'm using a custom-made joystick (made by me) and uses direct input so I too had to use JoyToKey. It took me a bit to realize that it was the controller after testing with my xbox controller which worked. A readme would be nice for those having trouble, then giving up.

+1 on the scanlines filter

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