[Scummvm-devel] PS2 #0 : proto-mail

[Travis Howell]

Re: PS2 #10 : user-friendliness : MI1 protection : nice
sunmax at libero.it wrote:
> Most of the users don't have a USB kbd plugged into their PS2,
> it would be nice if we could skip the MI1 protection (you can
> of course feed bogus data from joypad to pass through, but
> this is not very intuitive..)

Wouldn't these issue, be best handled by using an optional virtual
keyboard? like used by other backends.

Re: PS2 #11 : user-friendliness : pre-named saved games	: nice
sunmax at libero.it wrote:
> Most of the users don't have a USB kbd plugged into their PS2,
> it would be nice if we could provide some preformatted name
> for the games to be saved. We someway do it in some engines
> (eg. Scumm) when the user saves it blank, and a name is
> inserted ("Save 0", etc.) when we try to load them back.
> 
> It would be nice to provide an option for consoles, where
> a standard name, with progressive numeration, date, etc.
> is provided when we want to save, without assuming the
> user is going to type anything.
> 
> As an important note, some games (notably simon2) cannot
> load the game back if you leave its name empty. So it's
> something more than just a nice feature ;-)

Well the save game name is automatically chosen, if you use the quick
saving. Although not all game engines offer quick loading/saving of
saved games.

Wouldn't this issue, be best handled by using an optional virtual
keyboard too? like used by other backends.

Re: PS2 #15 : user-friendliness : simon2 in-game menu :	nice
sunmax at libero.it wrote:
> Would it be possible to trigger simon2 in-game menu (the one that
> you get by hammering the postcard) using a pre-defined key like
> we do on Scumm engine, etc.?

The load/save system is script based, in all games using the AGOS
engine. So it would not be possible to trigger via a pre defined key.

Re: PS2 #20 : games : elvira performance : nice
sunmax at libero.it wrote:
> Elvira on PS2 is pretty slow, when you click on a navigational
> arrow before it moves to the next room. Is it like this on
> other console backends?
>
> My other hobby is to collect Amigas, I compared and it's
> actually faster on my 20 yr old Amiga than my Playstation2
> (on the other hand maybe my PS2 backend is slow, so I should
> not complain, just checking how it does on other backends).

The AGOS game engine does frequent draws to the screen, which has caused 
performance issues in the past. Improved handling of dirty rects in the 
backend, usually improves the performance though.