- From the rail: -batch -bigpicture -fullscreen (the same flags as PCSX2's,
src/duckstation-qt/qthost.cpp) - straight into the game, gone when it is quit.
- bannerlator-pad-defaults: a new player starts on DuckStation's first-time setup
with the BIOS folder in the ROMs folder (psx/bios, created, or an existing one),
psx as the game list, Vulkan, the controller on Player 1 and the guide button
on the pause menu (not the analog toggle). An existing install gets the guide
and game-list changes, and once, its own empty BIOS folder moved to the ROMs
folder and Automatic made Vulkan; later choices are kept. Users bring their own
BIOS and games.
- The app opens with the selected rail item focused (its outline shows).
- Right from the rail enters the page on its main button (Play, Open desktop,
Open <emulator>, Launch, Launch in <emulator>); Down from there reaches the
tiles as before.
- Left from anything at the page's left edge - the main button, the first tile of
any row - returns to the selected rail item, not whichever one is nearest.
(Up, where the rail sits above the page.)
Quake III Arena, Team Arena, Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Jedi Academy set their own
resolution and switch the display to it. Under gamescope with the ARM64 Proton that switch is
refused ("calling CDS: failed, bad mode") and the game never gets OpenGL - device-seen on a
Retroid Pocket 5 on Proton Experimental build 25406135 - and a window left at the game's own size
draws small in a corner. Both wrappers (Valve's depot and an adopted GE or CachyOS) now add
+set r_fullscreen 0 +set r_mode -1 +set r_customwidth/height at BL_WIDTH x BL_HEIGHT for those
app ids, unless the user's launch options already set the video mode; the choice is logged.
The same choice as the Steam cog's, in the drawer's Now group, changed while the client runs:
the app writes it to ~/.droiddeck-fill (and again at every session start, so a file an earlier
session left never disagrees), and a watcher in the Steam session hands each change to gamescope
as GAMESCOPE_FORCE_WINDOWS_FULLSCREEN on the root window, which gamescope reads whenever it
changes. The session log says so when it does.
0.1.6 forced every game window to the screen's size (--force-windows-fullscreen), which keeps
FlatOut filling the screen but leaves Quake 3 drawing small in the bottom-left: it sets its own
resolution and never looks at its window again, and OpenGL draws from that corner. The switch
sits in the Steam page's Games group, on by default as before, and reaches the session as
BL_GAMESCOPE_FORCE_FULLSCREEN, which the session script already reads. Listed in the device
report.
- A portrait tile or poster with wide art (a PS3 disc's ICON0, 320x176) shows it
whole over a blurred, darkened copy of itself instead of cropping its sides
('Tomb Raider' read 'B RAI'); box art still fills the tile.
- A game's title drops the dump's tags - (USA), (En,Fr,Es,Pt), (v1.01), [!] -
which stay in the file name and in the cover lookup.
The libretro PS3 collection holds 67 covers (Tomb Raider found none). A PS3 disc
image carries PS3_GAME/ICON0.PNG, unencrypted even on protected discs; it is read
out of the ISO 9660 image, the way an installed game's icon already is. The PS2
serial lookup uses the same reader.
CoverArt looks a game up by its file name in RetroArch's libretro-thumbnails
collection for the system (exactly, then loosely: tags dropped, same region
preferred, against the collection's cached list of names), then by the disc's
own ID - PS2 serials from SYSTEM.CNF against xlenore/ps2-covers, GameCube/Wii IDs
against GameTDB. Covers are downloaded once into files/covers after the list is
shown, and the list is refreshed when some arrive; a game with none is retried
after three days; nothing is fetched offline. PS3 disc dumps use their own
PS3_GAME/ICON0.PNG.
- Back / B on an emulator page went back to Android (the app closed); it now
returns to Desktop, a game page to its emulator, a Steam game to Steam - the
same as each page's '‹' link.
- Games are looked for up to three folders inside the system folder
(ROMs/ps2/games/<game>/<game>.iso showed ARMSX2 with 0 games), and the loose-file
pass over the ROMs root no longer walks into other systems' folders.
- From the rail ARMSX2 starts the game in its full-screen, controller-driven UI
and exits with it (-batch -bigpicture -fullscreen).
- bannerlator-pad-defaults: a PCSX2 player's settings and memory cards are
copied into ARMSX2 once; a new player starts on ARMSX2's first-time setup with
the BIOS folder in the ROMs folder (ps2/bios, created, or ps2/firmware), the
ps2 folder as the game list and the controller on Player 1; the guide button
opens the pause menu (how a rail game is left) instead of toggling analog.
Users bring their own BIOS and games.
- The catalog can name a file per memory page size ("pages"); the device's own
size picks it (ARMSX2 has 4K and 16K builds).
- On-screen controls: Auto keeps them off the desktop (the screen is a touchpad
there) and shows them for rail games and Steam when no controller is
connected; the drawer offers the setting in every session.
Kurt Himebauch