On some earlier version (don't remember exactly which one) I would be able to use the joypad to acess the dropdown menu options. I would set a joypad button to "load game", and if I'd press it, then cancel out of the load game window, the first dropdown menu would be down. From there I'd be able to use reset, save/load state, pick state, etc. This was convenient because that way I'd have all those functions under one button (I only have 2 free joypad buttons after assigning all regular SNES controls).
In recent versions, however (I think from 1.36 all the way to the latest WIP), after cancelling out of the load game window, there are no dropdown menus down, and no other way to access them via the joypad. So I have to press escape on my keyboard to get to them, making the whole joypad controlled menu feature pretty redundant.
Would it be possible to make it so that the first dropdown menu is down after acessing the load game menu using an assigned button, like it was before?
A more "clean" option, of course, would be to add the ability to assign a joypad equivalent of the escape button, but that would require GUI work I suppose.
On a somewhat related note: if you save state using the dropdown menu, the savestate screenshot will have the Zsnes menu and the y/n prompt overlapping it, thus making it hard to recognise. If this is too bothersome to change, never mind I said anything.
Joypad controlled menus.
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Joypad controlled menus.
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Programs like JoyToKey can allow gamepad keypresses to emulate the actual pressing of a key (on the keyboard). You could assign a key to escape.
I always figured the option to control the GUI with the gamepad allowed you to move the mouse pointer position with the x/y axes. That's not the case? I've never used that option since I'm quite accustomed to shifting my focus from device A to device B.
I always figured the option to control the GUI with the gamepad allowed you to move the mouse pointer position with the x/y axes. That's not the case? I've never used that option since I'm quite accustomed to shifting my focus from device A to device B.
JoyToKey works great, thanks for the suggestion!
No, the option to control the GUI with the joypad merely allows you to move the red bar around, and switch between the dropdown menus. There is no way to manipulate most of the actual menu windows with the pad, nor can you actually GET to the dropdown menus from the game using the joypad. So it's not very useful.
That leaves the savestate screenshot problem I guess. Though, that is more of an annoyance than a problem.
No, the option to control the GUI with the joypad merely allows you to move the red bar around, and switch between the dropdown menus. There is no way to manipulate most of the actual menu windows with the pad, nor can you actually GET to the dropdown menus from the game using the joypad. So it's not very useful.
That leaves the savestate screenshot problem I guess. Though, that is more of an annoyance than a problem.
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