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[Ikrananka]

Hi Rlyeh, not so much a bug report as some feature requests.

Firstly let me say that fCOL32 in the f-day preview is just awesome. I love the superb splash screen and the new menu system - just excellent.

Now onto the feature requests:

- many of the games only require 4-way directional control. In these games the GP32 8-way directional joystick just does not work well. Sometimes when moving from one direction to another the joystick physically passes through one of the diagonals and then the output seems to get stuck (at least onscreen anyway). This usually results in the onscreen character stopping movement and then getting killed!!!! Is it possible to add a control option to select if you want the joystick to operate as either 4-way (i.e. it ignores/doesn't register the diagonals) or its normal 8-way for those games that need it?

- can you please, please, please add a virtual keypad selector so that when starting a game different difficulties and/or number of players can be selected. At the moment it is only possible to select one player at easy level for all games. Something similar to the implementation in GPColem would be great. If it could be improved so that the keypad could be mapped to some of the GP32 buttons then that would be awesome - many games use the keypad during game play as extra input.

Hope you can find the time to have a look at the suggestions. They could only help improve what is already a superb emulator for my favourite console.

Thanks

Andrew

[rlyeh]

- What games would need the special 4-way direction control option? Say some of them...

- Yes virtual keyboard is planned. Its just I had no time to implement it, so don't worry :-)

[Ikrananka]

Great news about the virtual keyboard - can't wait

With regard to games that only use 4-way control, I will compile a list for you. I will load all of the roms onto my GP32 and check them out while on holiday over the next few weeks. I'll report back asap.

[Ikrananka]

Hey Rlyeh,

Good to hear you're back and setup in your new city.

I'm still playing ColecoVision games using fCOL32 and thoroughly enjoying it. Still would love to be able to select higher difficulty settings though . Any update on the virtual keyboard?

Cheers

Andrew