Entry 183

"The desktop's and title's Controller page: the labelled boxes round the pad"

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Filescrates/piney-desktop/src/dtmenu.rscrates/piney-desktop/src/sprite.rstools/test_desktop_menu_rs.pydocs/engine/desktop.mddocs/engine/title.md

title.md and desktop.md both listed the Controller page's picture boxes as not ported: under OPTION > Controller on the desktop and on the title screen, the port drew the scheme list and the pad but none of the labels. The field's own Controller page had them (worklog 0148's option pages).

The game's page. ccDtMenu::ControllerMenuDisp (main 0x0016b7f0, 5,624 bytes) was run in eemu through tools/test_desktop_menu_rs.py's harness and its packets dumped for an open page. They are the field page's (ControllerMenuDisp, gcmn 0x0053d550) cell for cell: the same positions, cells, colours and ctrl bits.

  • The buttons' box at (320, 128), 9 x 4, in colour 0.
  • START and SELECT at (179, 300), with their two shapes (grid cells at (1792, 3776) 39 x 12 and (1024, 3776) 48 x 12).
  • The left stick at (39, 300), in colour 0.
  • The right stick at (347, 300) and the shoulder buttons at (165, 56), both in colour 7, since nothing sets the window's colour back to 0.
  • The labels in settingKanji 0-2: ctrlMenuStrBtn, ctrlMenuStrMov, ctrlMenuStrCam, the camera's by camType.
  • The rotation arrows: mirrored with ctrl 0x20 on the left, upside down with 0x40 for A-2 and B-2.

The port. DtMenu::draw_controller now pushes the same cells and labels into the menu's draw:

  • The menu's Cell has a ctrl for the two flips.
  • piney-desktop's Sprite gained flip_v: the V rows swapped, as MakePacketStr does for 0x40.
  • The grids 3 (24 x 24 at (2048, 1024)), START and SELECT were added.
  • The labels' texts are read with the rest of the option texts.
  • The page keeps camType as it opens it and as its OK sets it.

Checks. The harness had skipped the Controller's packets. Now it compares them, and the setting kanji's packets on every page:

  • test_each_option and test_title_each_option pass, frame by frame, over a scheme change;
  • a sample frame has 88 window cells and the set0-set2 labels on both sides.

A shot of the desktop's page shows the five boxes and their labels round the pad.

Still unknown

Nothing new.