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goweiwen / Allium

A custom launcher for the Miyoo Mini and Miyoo Mini Plus handheld devices
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Suggestion: add time/date to Save State Screenshots #59

Open tomh79 opened 5 months ago

tomh79 commented 5 months ago

Sometimes I found it hard to distinguish different save states (eg. which was the most recent one) - date/time below the screenshot could solve this. No dealbreaker for an already almost perfect OS, but nice to have maybe…

goweiwen commented 5 months ago

This is something I've thought about as well, but there's no reliable clock on the Miyoo Mini (Plus). We can get the clock synced up with NTP, but that requires Wi-Fi to be turned on, draining battery, and also doesn't work on the Miyoo Mini which lacks Wi-Fi.

The Wi-Fi stuff can potentially be reworked to enable NTP to temporarily turn on Wi-Fi and turn it off afterwards.

tomh79 commented 5 months ago

True - but I think an even simpler solution would be enough: just use the unrelieable internal clock to generate a date/timestamp. or even simpler: a simple number could indicate the latest and oldest safe state. For me personally it's not about knowing the date or time, but to know which state is the newest and maybe second / third newest...that would do without the wifi solution which could cause more problems as well. But then what I don't know is - if the internal clock is that bad, even a simple numbering system would probably not work properly.

whatsnewsisyphus commented 4 months ago

Isn't the activity tracker tracking how long you have played? Maybe it can use that amount of time, so it would be Number - Playtime Number being just an increment every time you save, so that you can separate ones in case you loaded an older time and resaved.

tomh79 commented 4 months ago

Isn't the activity tracker tracking how long you have played? Maybe it can use that amount of time, so it would be Number - Playtime Number being just an increment every time you save, so that you can separate ones in case you loaded an older time and resaved.

Great idea!!