Hey Exo, first of all, glad to see you got the Android version out, congrats on that; also great to see the piracy didn't knock you down too much, I hope you and Lordus get a small fortune from the income, several thousand downloaders times 8$ minus the amount for Google (suckers) should provide for some excellent bonus income, hope you spend it wisely.
Getting this thread back on topic, I've played with the new Pandora version and though it is absolutely brilliant, two things I'e noticed:
- Pokemon Black / White play fine, however, the hacked/edited ROMs "Pokemon Blaze Black and Volt White" do not get far ingame. The game freezes after you push "NEW GAME", it shows the sprite of the Pokemon lady coming up, but it apparently can not load the edited text. I've cross-checked with DesMuMe on my Windows x86, and that works just fine there. I've also disabled cheats, didnt change a bit, that was my first suspect, but no luck here. Do you know what could be wrong? I would really love to play this game, as it's a much better experience than the original Pokemon games (you can catch all the Pokemon in one game etc.).
- From the readme: "Q: What about an option to take up the entire screen?
A: There's code for this but I haven't enabled it because with two screens on
it's extremely distorting, and with one screen on it doesn't make a big
difference. I may reconsider if there's strong demand."
Well, here's one more demand
Personally I'm no big fan of black borders and I believe for some games it could be fun to have the full screen available. If the code is already done, why not include it, even if its not many people liking it too much? This is not the Play Store, people won't cry about how distorted it looks, since the Pandora community seems mature enough to know they can set it up as they want and they are free to use whatever screen layout they want to use
Please make this available in the next version for the few who'd like this - I dont see any downsides to this - Dont like it? Dont enable it
but let those who like it be happier folks
- While on black borders, there sure is room for some gimmicks to fill in the black space. A clock and the battery status have come up, excellent ideas in my opinion (of course, all should be optionally configurable in the menu). More idea: current ROM playing time, overall ROM playing time, colors, settable .jpg's (think Super Gameboy), .....
- Far more gimmicky and hardly likely
one crazier idea: in-emulator text reader for .txt files with Walkthroughs: For example, pressing T would bring up a window (like a third DS window that could be moved around in the same way) with the text files, R and Y (next keys, or whatever) would swap pages. It would greatly enhance playing with Walkthroughs, as of by now, you have to quit the emu to look stuff up. But I can undertstand if you dont want to code something like this.
