Could someone try Sqrxz?

[emphyrio]

Could someone with a 1ghz pandora try Sqrxz? I've got a strange problem on mine: the jump-button doesn't work.


No problems with sqrxz2 or sqrxz3.

 

[frefol]

I have the same problem. I believe it is because it was written to use the nubs in a mode that no longer exists on the new kernel.

 

[Pickle]

Shouldnt have anything do with the nubs. Pushing up may do jump.


Could be the build is on older source before a jump button was added. I will try my copy.

 

[klapse]

Just tried sqrxz on rebirth edition, super zaxxon. Could not find jump, on dpad up, abxy or keyboard.

 

[Hooka]

Yeah, it's just something that changed in superzaxxon's firmware, from what I've heard the source is fixed, somebody just needs to recompile it and make a new PND then upload it to the repo *nudge nudge*

 

[porg]

I quitted Sqrxz.


I opened appdata/sqrxz/sqrxz.cfg and changed the key codes accordingly.


But it had no effect.


I quitted Sqrxz again and I opened appdata/sqrxz/sqrxz.cfg again and realized that it was overwritten with the un-useable keycodes again.


Likely a script in the PND or the Sqrxz executable itself, which overwrites the config file to its defaults at each invocation.


Informed maintainer Pickle via IM. Hopefully he can fix it.

 

[lomaxx]

from /tmp/pndrun_sqrxz.out:

./runsqrxz.sh: line 6: /proc/pandora/game_button_mode: No such file or directory

Content of runsqrxz.sh:

#!/bin/bash


# copy default data to appdata folder


cp -r --no-clobber default/* .


echo 2 > /proc/pandora/game_button_mode # gamepad mode


./sqrxz_pnd -fs


echo 1 > /proc/pandora/game_button_mode # keyboard mode

Problem: The new kernel does not use "/proc/pandora/game_button_mode" anymore and so the ABXY are not set to the ABXY-joystick-button-mode that the game uses.


porg was rather close to the solution. The problem is to find the right key-names. If you enter wrong once then they will be overwritten with default-settings. My first working try was to set

k_jump=i

k_fire=o

k_start=u

These settings will not be overwritten. And I can jump with "i" and the key "o" will pause the game. I wonder if that's the normal behavior, but probably it is.


Now it would be nice to know codes for ABXY-keys. "Home" and "End" for A and B do not work. Also i installed "xev" by running "opkg install xev" as root. "xev" shows you keycodes for the buttons you press (fn, then alt+4 quits). "110" and "115" didn't work either. Neither did "83" or the key-numbers shown at http://pandorawiki.org/Keyboard.


At the moment I do not manage to solve this. But if you set the keys to what is shown above, then you at least have a work-around.

 

[porg]

I once noted these OpenPandora Keycodes.


UPDATE: The source seems to be http://pandorawiki.org/Keyboard#Keycodes


AXE_UP 273


AXE_DOWN 274


AXE_LEFT 276


AXE_RIGHT 275


A 278


B 279


X 281


Y 280


START 308


SELECT 306


L 303


R 305


The problem as previously described is, that the values in the .cgf file get overwritten.

 

[porg]

So far no-one found a solution to fix this.


Mere appdata hacking is not enough, this requires PND manipulation.

 

[frefol]

So far I have just set P to be jump so that it is at least playable. It would be nice if it got fixed, though.

 

[porg]

I notified a maintainer named Kojote via feedback of the app's repo page.


In the boards there is no user named Kojote, otherwise I would have notified him/her via PM.


I now notify Pickle, as he seems to be involved somehow.

 

[Pickle]

hang tight, im following the thread and i though the appdata workaround worked, but since it doesnt I debug the issue and get working

 

[porg]

@All: I just PM-ed Kojote on the German forums.


@Pickle: Thanks!


Maybe co-ordinate with Kojote to avoid double efforts.


Sorry, I just saw your answer after I PM-ed Kojote.

 

[Pickle]

pickle.gp2x.de/SQRXZ.pnd


the keymapper options seem broken, but i change the jump to the A button so should be good enough to a least play.

 

[porg]

The hardcoded A button for jumping works fine. Thanks!


I wonder though why the game now has 1.5MB instead of previously 1MB.

 

[Pickle]

I wonder though why the game now has 1.5MB instead of previously 1MB.

compression with squashfs broke so I stuck making it without.