unclethommy

Hi there, I have ordered my new Dell axim x51v and am eagerly awaiting it. I know its not meant to be a sony PSP etc but I was wondering if anyone knew of any software which would let parts of the screen be mapped to buttons which can be used to play games eg in FPSce? I can see in youtube videos and screenshots that FPSce seems to have its own virtual joypad but it sits at the bottom in portrait mode. What I am more interested in is something like tony hawks pro skater where the directional pad on the axim is used as a normal direction button and then when the axim is rotated to landscape model, the right most part of the screen functions as buttons to use in the game. In addition it has transparency so it not so intruding to the gameplay. Here's the link to the video on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KS4PVS6_8U

i was wondering if there was a way to have this in all games or is this something specific to tony hawks?

Sorry if this a newbiw question, would have posted in newbie section but I thought it might be appropriate here. Please move it if it is in the wrong forum

Thanks for you help in advance :)

player911

Its specific to Tony Hawk and whatever games incorporate it. The reason why it would be hard to do is because when you launch a game... you lose control of any built in SIP keyboard.

Some games have onscreen controls like Tony Hawk, FPSce, NES emulators etc.
Most PPC games are touch screen sensitive so the support is there.

I know what your talking about in FPSce... but I think what your asking is if you can use FPSce's built-in controls in landscape mode?

Well I haven't played with FPSce much... but I have had my Axim for over a year and I know something that might work for you. Try this:

Switch the Axim into landscape mode before launching FPSce or assign "Rotate" to a hardware button and try rotating while in FPSce. The program may do one of three things...

It'll either be aware of the change and redraw the screen to best fit landscape and hopefully draw the onscreen controls on both sides of the screen... or you'll have a stretched portrait view... or it might crash.

I haven't played with it so I do not know about how FPSce plays with different angles. From what I know FPSce is just a hobby and not a full blown production we have to be happy with what we have. BUT the author of FPSce is a super nice guy and I'm sure onscreen controls wouldn't be too hard to implement because they are already there... you just want them rearranged so that you can use the hardware D-Pad and have the buttons on the right side of the game in landscape mode.


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unclethommy

Hi player911, thanks for the info and the help first of all, will try to do that when i get the axim and install FPSce. I think I will drop the author of the program an email and ak what h/she thinks. Its amazing he's got this stage of development on his own. A congratulation is in order in any case. I cant access the image in your link. Would be cool to have FPSce work well with PDAs like that as most will have direction key to use as usual direction controller and would help PDAs be more "game" friendly (just my thought) especially as I want to be cheap and not buy those bluetooth joypads :)