Has anyone succeeded in mapping the scroll wheel of the Kaiser to controlling the "pill" of Acky's Breakout?
I can create the mapping OK, but it doesn't work during gameplay.
To close this out, Ack'y tech support said the wheel cannot be used to control the "pill". Great game, bummer for no wheel!
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Anyone got one of these?
http://www.expansys.com/product.asp?code=XDATHUMBPAD
As its a clip on device, I would hope that the onscreen keyboard disappears when you're using it... or does it come with software for caps lock control etc, come to think of it, can someone post a really good close-up photo showing the keys?
My main reason for being interested it ironically is more for gaming, as I'm a big fan of the Atari VCS emulator, and of course Pocket PC Mame, of course mame is a bit of a problem on the xda due to the few number of hardware buttons.
Obviously for more simple games the joypad is ok,
basics are
four directions
one fire button
a "coins" button
Exit game app button
The cenre click functionality of the xda joypad is difficult to use in some games, e.g. Atari VCS pitfall, where a fire button press is needed while moving left/right. The press down only works without directional control
Although its no problem for Atari games (I remap the fire button to the calendar or contacts button, with the emulator set to rotate the screen, in this configuration, the joypad is used with the right hand. ) Some MAME games have three fire buttons.
Obviously playing a two player arcade or VCS game on a handheld would be daft!
Obviously its a problem using the other hardware buttons, e.g volume or the two call buttons in case someone actually calls you while you're playing a game. In any case using these as fire buttons are too fiddly and close to the joypad.
I'd appreciate if someone could comment on this with their discoveries or experiences with this add on before I buy one.
I've been thinking of buying the diamond after reading these forums quite a bit, had my ipaq 4150 stolen which was wonderful for playstation and SNES/NES/Gameboy emulation, which would essentially be a deal breaker for me on a PDA phone.
Its very sad to know that you cannot re-map the buttons on some programs, however...
Has anyone tried any of the game emulators like Morphgear on the diamond, and are the buttons mappable as well as multi-key capable? And is the directional keys as good as most other pda phones for moving around? Essential for run-and-jump style games and tetris...
Simple answer: no. Not recommended. Some keys can't be remapped in Morphgear and it doesn't seem to allow more than one button pressed at a time. At any rate, the navigational pad is recessed and is not suitable for a thumb. Its too easy to hit the enter button or to go in the wrong direction. I used to have morphgear on my old PDA and it was perfect, but the diamond keypad is not suitable. I've been trying for a few weeks.
Sorry!
wow, thanks for the reply.
thats a tragedy....the upcoming xperia x1 looks a lot more game friendly with the two sets of four way buttons but I wonder if morphgear would have issues with the widescreen.
i wonder if the touch dual could use multi-touch on its 20-key pad.
because i travel quite often I have to have morphgear
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=398280
here's a thread about re-mapping keys with diamond. apparently touchflo locks some of the keys...
but even then, as you said, the two keys to the right of the arrows can't be pressed at the same time?
hmm
Sorry to revive this but I found something incredibly compelling. The Diamond playing arcade fighting games with on-screen keys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqyy9K3Uj64
Showing how fast and capable the diamond can be with on-screen tap areas. I was wondering if anyone wants to experiment with this and Nop's SNES emulator. I'm thinking the directional pad could actually be sufficient for emulation.
Seeing as Sprint is selling the Diamond for 250 with 2-year contract, I pretty much on-board with the diamond here.
I hope someone find a way for a 3rd party app to output capacative input (ie the lower touch) as hardkeys... So a game thinks you're pressing a button.
I have tested pocketgba on the diamond,works pretty well..lets u remap almost every key,but as said cant press 2 of the buttons at once,my setup is with 4 onscreen buttons,app in youtube video is problably finalburn,have yet to test it on my diamond,am also going to test a couple of other emu's later..
Yes, the emulator in the video is finalburn alpha.
If you are testing emulators, for snes try Nop's snes9x port.
http://www.pocketpcmag.com/cms/blogs/3/the_definitive_guide_to_playing_snes_gam
Apparently it excels in full-screen vga and on-screen tap areas. It would be interesting to see how the diamond holds up.
Hey guys,
The other day I was screwing around and I found that I can sinc my Wii Remote to my Tilt just like any other bluetooth device. I was wondering if anyone out there knows of any software that would alow the Remote to emulate functions of the D-pad and soft keys on my phone, so I can play my NES Emulator and other games.
hell yeah. That would be awesome.
cool what would be nice if there were a program or something that would make it a wii controller. but the reality is that it most likely won't happen because you'd need a motion sensitive device.
wii-mote or wm-mote
theres lots of homebrew stuff on the web to connect wiimote to pc via bluetooth , ive had my wii mote as a media remote before and it works very well, so i dont see any problems controlling a wm device with it
we dont really need the motion sensor or the accelometer but who knows now HTC have made phones with accelometers in
any ways here a link for anyone who could recode it
http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/
plenty there for a dev to get (blue)teeth into, lol
I like the idea of using it as a windows media center remote, did you have to resync it with the wii to use it ?
what i really want is to use my phone to control my cars steering........from 200 miles away
how bout using it as a girlfriend remote instead
Control Home Theatre (Itunes or WMP) from Touch Pro?
Is this possible, I know the iphone can integrate with itunes
Unfortunatelly I don't know any good freware solution for this.
Anyway, you can try a program called "Signal". It is cheap and through wifi works quickest that a mouse in front of the screen.
There is a program in the MS marketplace (if you have it) that will turn the screen of your phone into a bluetooth track-pad for a connected computer. I believe it has a media controls panel in addition to the track-pad and a few other control functions. But unfortunately it isn't free, can't recall the name off the top of my head...
Thanks the best I could think of.
Hope that helps.
Free and amazingly cool!
GRemote on XDA or GRemote website
I consider myself to be moderately tech savvy. Had little to no problems pairing the Sixaxis PS3 controller to my Motorola Droid Bionic, and with screen shots, and key mapping, I'm able to setup simple side scroller/FPS games. Trying to map out Final Fantasy IV however, with all its touch screen menu's/sub menus and controls has been a headache, with several different screen shots taken. Beginning to wonder if there's too much going on with the map key functions/features that its not a plausible possibility. Can anyone out there confirm this, or would anyone possibly have a map key profile showing otherwise that they can post/submit? any help in this regard would be greatly appreciated. Thank you