libretro / common-overlays

Collection of overlay files for use with libretro frontends, such as RetroArch.
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RGPAD v8.1 #131

Closed DJM75 closed 2 months ago

DJM75 commented 2 months ago

These new overlays (landscape and portrait) are useful for various types of games but especially for those games where you need to move left-right or press buttons as fast as possible to get up speed (i.e. Track & Field, Decathlon, etc.). If the game doesn't use left-right but use buttons to run, you can remap them to the D-pad. For example, in Track & Field you can remap Button 1 and 3 to D-Pad Left and Right. Or, even better, you can try to remap Button 1 to D-Pad Up and Down, Button 3 to D-Pad Left and Right and with a circular movement of your finger on the D-Pad you can get great speeds (of course you can use this trick also with games which use left-right to run, just map those directions alternately to the D-pad)

To show these new buttons on the screen you need to first press the "options" button (the one with the 3 white lines on it)

Many people like to use gamepad overlays also when they play with an external controller to have on the screen all the hotkeys (save/load, rewind, fast-forward, etc.). In this new version it's possible to hide the overlay but still have access to all the hotkeys (before hiding the overlay you need to first enable hotkeys by pressing the "options" button, the one with the 3 white lines on it)