The Select Button Takes Some Time To Work

[John-Enigma]

I don't know if this happens to everybody, but the Select button is not refined like the other buttons.

Every time I try to press it, it takes a bit of time for it to respond.

Using Link's Awakening DX as an example, I tried to:

• save the game (A + B + Start + Select at the same time),
• tried to open the map,
• tried to activate the status screen from the Pause Menu,

and it's a piece of work, honestly.

The other buttons are not like that. They're really responsive. I even checked my keyboard, and everything is fine.

[endrift]

Um. Menus are just slow in that game.

[John-Enigma]

Is not the menus per se. Whenever I press the Select button in other games, I have to press it like two times for it to work.

It doesn't respond at the instant properly, @endrift.

I've tested Mother 1+2 (English translation), and takes me like two times for the Select button to work.

[endrift]

Works fine on my machine. Select isn't handled at all specially compared to other buttons. Is this keyboard or controller? What are the mappings?

This is kind of needed for proper diagnosis.

[John-Enigma]

I use a keyboard.

And these are my controls:

I'm using mGBA 0.6.0.

[zeromus]

Check under your ' for sticky crumbs

[John-Enigma]

Nope. Still works fine.

[zeromus]

Oh, then you may want to put some more crumbs in so it will stop working again.

Try clearing the controller binding for select, perhaps your gamepad is sitting on the floor propped up against the select button and it's conflicting with your keyboard

[endrift]

Have you tried binding it to another key?

[John-Enigma]

Okay. I changed the ' with a \ .

The reason why it was weird, is because the ' key takes like two seconds for it to respond, just like in Word, or any other kind of app. Which is weird because I use that key in all kinds of emulators, and that waiting time never happened to me.

Select works on any kind of any kind of key, except ' .

[John-Enigma]

What do you think of ' as a working key in mGBA, @endrift ?

[zeromus]

why the hell would it take 2 seconds to respond in any other app? your system is weird.

[John-Enigma]

^You press the apostrophe (') key, it doesn't come out.

You press the apostrophe key, plus another key, the (') key comes out.

Maybe that's why it wasn't working. But I still don't get why it doesn't work. I've tested the (') key in other emulators with no problems whatsoever.

[zeromus]

Your keyboard is weird. It's your job to find out why. For all we know you have some 3rd party software installed that treats that key differently and attempts to detect when not to, and is failing to detect it for mGBA

[John-Enigma]

https://github.com/mgba-emu/mgba/issues/845#issuecomment-320382739

Nope. My keyboard came with my Gateway desktop. Everything works as intended.

[zeromus]

then get your money back, since you have a system intended to run 3rd party "desktop enhancement" software that interferes with other programs. you could also try uninstalling everything that says "gateway", including the actual keyboard.

[GerbilSoft]

It sounds like your keyboard layout is set up for "dead keys". As an example, if you press ' and then e, you'll get é.

[John-Enigma]

@GerbilSoft Well, I do have it set on United States - International.

But just like you said, it could still happen.