maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - Sega Saturn Emulator WORKING on N900!

	cddiede	2011-08-31 , 19:17
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Originally Posted by Temporal

[Not a rant on this emulator in particular]

Why are the arrow keys always the directional? I mean, at least for me, someone that started with games in video games, it is so much easier to map the arrows to wasd or esdf and the action buttons to the directional buttons...

Is it just me? Games that map the directional to the arrows are "useless" as in "unplayable" to me |:/

[/not a rant]

Unless I have a Game Gripper or something, I get lost visually on which keys are my directional keys when using WASD on the N900.

The keys aren't offset like they are on a full desktop keyboard and the keys are too small for me to rest more then just a thumb on so my thumb drifts and I lose track of which keys are the direction buttons.

Two benefits of using the arrow keys on the N900:

visually distinctive (they have arrows printed on them)

They are on the edge of the keyboard (you can "feel" your way to them without looking).

But of course the best solution is the have a config screen where you can map your own keys. Emulators like Yabause, PicoDrive, and others let you do this easily. Other emulators like mupen64plus, not so much....

Last edited by cddiede; 2011-09-02 at 23:02.

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