Rhialto
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Post by Rhialto on Jan 7, 2020 21:59:05 GMT
I noticed a weird thing on my Maxi. I set it to boot to "classic mode" instead of the caroussel. Then I wanted to play Boulder Dash. But I got no further from the initial screen where you must click a joystick button to start. I supect the joystick setting (in which port it is supposed to be inserted) is wrong at this point. To test the connection to "classic mode", I changed the boot mode to the caroussel, rebooted, and then indeed I could play Boulder Dash again. Then I went to "classic mode" and back again, and then I couldn't. I didn't try other games, but they might be affected as well. I suspect this is something like settings not being reset to defaults after leaving "classic mode"... or perhaps even after some other games. I didn't test this either.
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Post by jj0 on Jan 8, 2020 8:01:49 GMT
I noticed a weird thing on my Maxi. I set it to boot to "classic mode" instead of the caroussel. Then I wanted to play Boulder Dash. But I got no further from the initial screen where you must click a joystick button to start.
I supect the joystick setting (in which port it is supposed to be inserted) is wrong at this point.
To test the connection to "classic mode", I changed the boot mode to the caroussel, rebooted, and then indeed I could play Boulder Dash again. Then I went to "classic mode" and back again, and then I couldn't.
I didn't try other games, but they might be affected as well.
I suspect this is something like settings not being reset to defaults after leaving "classic mode"... or perhaps even after some other games. I didn't test this either.
Dammit! Now you've gotten me hooked on Boulderdash again!  I don't see this behaviour, when I boot to Classic mode, exit to the carousel and start Boulderdash I click the joystick button twice and the game starts. Did you make any changes to the BOULDER-DASH.TSG? |
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Rhialto
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Post by Rhialto on Jan 8, 2020 20:41:46 GMT
Dammit! Now you've gotten me hooked on Boulderdash again! ;) I don't see this behaviour, when I boot to Classic mode, exit to the carousel and start Boulderdash I click the joystick button twice and the game starts. Did you make any changes to the BOULDER-DASH.TSG? Interesting! Now that I tried it again today, I could not reproduce it anymore. So maybe I saw a ghost, or the problem is more complex. Before I tried it again, I thought there might be a difference in firmware version (I have not upgraded yet and still have 1.3.0-amora running). I only changed the root password via the UART. For the rest I only "looked around".
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Post by eddepad on Jul 20, 2020 18:58:17 GMT
Sorry to bump this post. But the above is easily to reproduce. If you use ONLY the keyboard to navigate (in caroussel or usb drive with shift arrow-left) and then when the game starts you use the joystick for the very first time, then your joystick won't work. I contacted support a while back and they said if you only use the keyboard to navigate and start a game, it's default to use the keyboard in the game as well, so the joystick won't work. EDIT: but what really happens in the background, is that the joystick ports are swapped. If you set Boulderdash on port2 for the joystick (or a game like BruceLee), you can use the joystick even if you navigated and started the game with only the keyboard  I'm not sure if all this is a feature or a bug  |
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I'm not sure if all this is a feature or a bug 
