Can I save rockboy games without the menu?

[RebelPanda]

I cant access the actual menu for the plugin, so is there a way I can use the game's built-in save feature? Also, is there a way to exit without using the menu or reseting my ipod? Its a 2nd gen nano if that helps at all.

[[Saint]]

I cant access the actual menu for the plugin, so is there a way I can use the game's built-in save feature? Also, is there a way to exit without using the menu or reseting my ipod? Its a 2nd gen nano if that helps at all.

AFAIK you need to Hold key for both actions you describe.
Pretty sure this is described in the manual also.


[St.]

[RebelPanda]

yea, I assumed as much. I was kinda hoping that someone happened to have a workaround I could use.

[Llorean]

Any game that can save normally (as in, within gameplay) should still be able to save without you needing to use the Rockboy menu.

[torne]

No, that doesn't work because Rockboy only saves the gameboy SRAM to a file on disk when you exit it cleanly; the original poster has been hard-resetting the device to get out of the plugin, which doesn't save any data.

There are not enough buttons on an iPod for the menu to be mapped to anything other than hold, you can try changing the keymap yourself and doing a custom build but you'll find it hard to get a different button that doesn't ruin your ability to play games.

[Llorean]

Ah. Well I guess saving doesn't need the menu, but keeping the save file between play sessions requires a clean quit from Rockboy.

I just meant to clarify that the game's save features will work in Rockboy and that the save state feature isn't the only way to save. Wasn't aware though that SRAM wasn't written until you quit.

[torne]

Lots of GB games write to their SRAM very frequently, saving to disk on every change would be expensive. Emulators generally only write it out when it's been idle for a while at most, often only when you quit the emulator or start another rom. We wouldn't want to have to spin the disk up for it.

[RebelPanda]

Do you know how I would start to remap the buttons, all I need is to change the menu button from hold to select. I'm not playing anything fast paced so its still easy for me to play without it.

[saratoga]

Do you know how I would start to remap the buttons, all I need is to change the menu button from hold to select. I'm not playing anything fast paced so its still easy for me to play without it.

/apps/plugins/rockboy

Search in there and you should be able to find the macros for your buttons, switch them, and then compile the source. 

[RebelPanda]

do you know which file I would find it in?