[Al ex]

Lol, people just don’t want to read manuals, or memorize complex controls anymore. Quest marker kids… ?
To be fair, I’m having a blast playing Fortnite, and you can turn off all markers in Witcher 3, to play it oldschool. It’s not all bad these days. ?

[Al ex]

All these gamepad and mouse limitations in Android are really frustrating. It took them ten years to get mouse support sort of straight, and controllers are still kinda bugged. Ah well, we have to work with what we got. ?‍♂️

I agree that loopers are probably the best solution. You can do this:
– Create 4 loopers, configure them as invisible and non-detectable, and rename them so they’re easily identifyable (e.g. 1&2, 3&4, 5&6, 7&8)
– open the loopers menu again, and create four looper lists; each one containing a pair of keypresses (1/2, 3/4, 5/6, 7/8)
– tap on each of the four loopers, and select the appropriate list
– map the four loopers to the four directions of the dpad.

Result: when you press dpad up, you will select weapon 1 and 2 in turns, dpad right will select weapon 3 and 4 in turns, etc.
I just tested it, and I think it’ll work well enough. ?

[Al ex]

Oh wait, physical gamepad? I thought you were referring to the onscreen dpad, sorry. I’ll test later on my own gamepad.

[Al ex]

Just tap the green arrow next to “4 way” (your first screenshot). It will then switch to “8 way”, and you’ll be able to setup every direction individually. ?

[Al ex]

Dang. Well, root is sort of essential if you want to tweak your phone. ?

I mean, you could always buy that GameSir controller, but it’s ~40$, so it’s not a quick&easy solution. Let’s hope Android 9 will fix it for free. ?

[Al ex]

Maybe this:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.irishin.buttonsremapper

or this:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.locnet.gamekeyboard2
(paid app though)

[Al ex]

@DeathWalk are you connecting your controller natively? Or is there some kind of driver involved?

[Al ex]

For comparison, here are the values for my gamepad:

# Device name: Gamesir-G4s
# Device id : Vendor_05ac_Product_022d

# key
key 312 BUTTON_L2
key 313 BUTTON_R2

# axis
axis 00 X
axis 01 Y
axis 0b Z
axis 0f HAT_X
axis 10 HAT_Y
axis 0e RZ
axis 17 BRAKE
axis 16 GAS

[Al ex]

Welcome! ?

Are you completely unable to map these buttons? Like, they aren’t even detected when you’re for example Voodoo Control–>Joystick/Gamepad buttons?
I’m asking because I’m using an Xbox controller clone (a GameSir G4s), and Magic Dosbox is detecting all buttons perfectly fine. The right joystick is only detected via Voodoo Control–>Joystick/Right joystick though, but can be remapped there.

[Al ex]

That Half-Life 2 thing was tricky af, all credit to n0n4m3, the creator of GLTools. That’s such a helpful tool! Only downside is that at least on older Snapdragon devices, HL2 won’t work. I even discussed that with n0n4m3, but he came to the conclusion that Qualcomm had messed up their gpu drivers. Not the only issue I had with my Note 4 back then (SD 805), so I guess he was right.
Anyway, Exynos and Kirin devices seem to be fine (both closer to ARM reference design, that’s probably why). I’m really curious if the new SD 845 chipsets are compatible now, they’re also much much better at running Dosbox than their predecessors.

[Al ex]

I think the idea is to make it look like a real pc keyboard. So, normal XT keyboard keys (primary image), but when you press a key, it makes an oldschool click sound, and looks as if it was pressed down (secondary image). Right?

[Al ex]

Lol, have fun! ?

[Al ex]

You mean the layout file? That’s here.
Import is just Add game -> Import profile -> Browse to the mgc file that’s stored on your phone.

[Al ex]

The plain truth is that Windows 95 and Clone Drive just are an unstable mess.
I usually install and setup Win95 games in Dosbox on my Windows PC, then copy the hdd image files to my phone. I think in some cases, the installation simply slowed down to a crawl, but on the PC at least , with enough extra power, it continued slowly after a while.
Counterstrike will be a pain to play in Dosbox though. I’ve made a short video of Half Life running on my old S7 edge (still one of the fastest phones for Dosbox emulation), and it was barely playable: https://youtu.be/dAr5u7fgR5o

I also made some other videos on my Youtube, and you can check the benchmark section on this forum to compare your phone’s specs with others. That will give you a rough idea of what will be possible.

For Half-Life / Counterstrike, get Xash3D from Google Play. It’s an interpreter, and runs the game at 60 fps even on a six years old Galaxy Note 2.

[Al ex]

Lol, this is quite tricky to set up. Here’s how I do it:
1. on my Windoes PC, I use UltraISO to copy the iso images to the hdd image (weird tool, it’s got an unlimited free trial with no restrictions ?)
2. copy the hdd image to my sd card (doesn’t actually matter where)
3. use these mounting commands in Magic Dosbox (change file path according to your file structure):

imgmount c /storage/9C33-6BBD/Games/PC/Win95/c.img -t hdd -fs fat -size 512,63,32,520
imgmount d /storage/9C33-6BBD/Games/PC/Win95/2GB_Thief_Commandos.img -t hdd -fs fat -size 512,63,64,1023
boot -l c

You have to use the 2GB image values. As lomg as the image isn’t broken, it should work. In Windows 95, you can then mount the iso images from hard drive d: as virtual cd-rom.

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