KEGS-X Xbox

KEGS-X
General
Author	xport/Madmab
Type	Computer
Version	v5b5
License	Mixed
Links
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Features

- Emulates Apple IIgs/e/c/+

- Excellent compatibility - ported from KEGS

- USB Keyboard support 

- ZIP support

- Cheat system - Search/Create your own cheat codes (see notes)

- Favorites list

- Netplay

- Resizable game screen

- 480p, 720p, 1080i support

- Virtual Keyboard - go to Controller Configuration / UI Mappings to select
  the button combo that will bring up the Virtual Keyboard while in-game.

- Skin-able :
   - Backgrounds
   - Sounds
   - Background Music
   - Sprites
   - Text position (right/left/center, top/bottom/center)
   - Text color, select bar color
   - Font
   - Fading speed
   - Screenshot position
   - Can specify 2 sprites to surround the selected menu option
   - Option to have a transparent select-bar color (from select-color menu)
   - Can flip sprites horizontally/vertically
   - Can set motion_x and motion_y variables for sprites
   - Sprites can loop continuously or just once
   - If you want to change the way something looks in this new UI,
     chances are that you can change it via the Configuration menu.

- Music Control Menu - press LTHUMB anywhere to bring up the music control menu.
  This is also a customizable controller action while in-game.  Configure it
  via the Controller Configuration -> UI Mappings menu.

- Save Game management - delete save game files

- Save States (see notes)

- Samba/NetBIOS sharing support (read roms from your PC)

- Relax Network Sharing (read roms from your PC)

- Play MP3 or M3U playlists in the background
  (Can also read MP3/M3U from across Samba/Relax shares.)

- User definable save directory.  If you don't like the default of
  E:\SAVES\KEGSX you can change it via the KEGSX.INI file

- Take in-game screenshots and display them on the game selection list

- New UI feature - auto-screenshot capture mode.  When enabled, the emu
  will start taking screenshots at a user-defined interval.  Useful for
  ripping sprites/animation.

- Hardware filtering options : Point, Bilinear, Trilinear, Anisotropic 

- Graphics filters :
    + 2xSai
    + Super 2xSai
    + Eagle
    + Super Eagle
    + SuperScale
    + AdvanceMame 2x
    + Simple 2x
    + 2xSai Scanline
    + Super 2xSai Scanline
    + Eagle Scanline
    + Super Eagle Scanline
    + SuperScale Scanline

- Record/Playback feature - record your gameplay in the emu and then
  play it back again.  Record up to 10 minutes of gameplay.

- Every single in-game command is fully customizable on any of the
  four joypad controllers.

- Map any emulator or UI command to a single button or a combination of
  two buttons.  (e.g. RTrigger+LTrigger = Save State)

- Autofire capabilities for any emulator button on any controller

- One-button combos (define a series of emulator commands to be played
  back when you press a user-definable XBox controller combination.)
  (E.g. Press RTrigger+LTrigger to execute the command string
  A,B,A,B,Up,Down,Left,Right)

- Traverse any directory on any drive ( Continue selecting the parent
  directory entry on the file selection list to get the drive selection
  list.  Selectable drives are C, D, E, F, R, X, Y, Z, and SMB. 
  R is the CDROM drive.  SMB is the samba share you have defined in your
  KEGSX.ini file.)  Press Y from any file-listing screen to go up one
  directory level.

- All UI commands (save state, load state, screenshot, etc) can be
  invoked from the Options/Pause menu as well as in-game via your
  customized joypad mappings.

- Can be invoked from a command-line to directly run a game from a front-end
  or dashboard and bypass the user-selection screens. (Only if the frontend
  or dashboard supports this feature.)

- Can return to the launching program *if* the launching program supports this
  feature.  For example, if the custom-launch routines are incorporated into 
  a new frontend, that frontend could launch KEGSX and when you exit 
  KEGSX, that frontend can be automatically reloaded.  

What's News

• Core updated to v0.90

• Savestates are kinda wonky (and questionable at best). The original x-port version has some (v0.71) but I have no idea where it came from because it is not part of the original source. A cursory glance at it reveals many potential "issues" that could crop up from using them. Here is a quote from the readme for the v1 release of this emu. "Save states only work reliably while you are playing the same game without restarting it. This means that while you are playing a game, you can save/load states all you want, but as soon as you reset the emulator or exit the game, those save states will probably not work anymore". My two cents on savestates. As long as you are playing a game that does NOT write to the disk and you have the right disks inserted in the right drives then odds are you will be safe.

• Given the full "Madmab Edition" treatment.

• Sorry. No dual-preview skin to support Xtra's. Not that there are any atm.

• Keys "caps lock" issue should be fixed (for those with real keyboards).

• New option "Start With Caps Lock - On/Off". This will hopefully help resolve any issues with mapping the xbox controller to keyboard keys. See next comment. Currently defaults to "On". Let me know if it would be better as "Off".

• Xbox controller mapping to keyboard keys may need re-evaluating due to the weird nature of how the apple's "capslock" key works. If anyone with better knowledge of the Apple wants to help me on this just send me a PM.

• User can now mount a disk in drives 1 and 2. Game loading is alot more fluid now. Emulator remembers which disks were loaded at game boot time. Press X on game load if you want to change these. This included a new menu option to display the disks in drives 1 & 2, rotate and change disks.

• Bram now stored in separate files whose name is based on the ROM used (1 or 3) AND the slot the disks are inserted in. This allows you to set seperate "startup slots" for 140k, 800k, and disk images without having to worry about constantly reseting the "startup" slot from within the "control panel". See below on how to setup the "startup" slot in the "control panel". The easiest thing to do is copy the include BRAM??.ram files into your saves directory (usually "e:\saves\kegs\"). Or if you are a real masochist you can manually set them all yourself! :P

• In game "configuration" computer speed is changed based on disk size. Anything less than 140k will autoset to 1mhz. The rest will be 2.5. Border clipping is auto set as well based on the recommendations in the Kegs documentation. This can be manually changed if need be.

• New selectable speed added to game configuration menu "8.0mhz" works great for some of the slower games "Silpheed", "Out Of This World". Use at own risk. :P

• Controller setup stuff moved into it's own menu and also added to the "in-game" menu so that you can adjust the trim and "center" positions more easily.

• Added in trim adjustment for joystick X and Y axis. This is needed if you are running games at "8.0mhz" speed. For example "Silpheed" needs X and Y trim set to "-100" for the joystick to work right when running the game at "8.0mhz".

• Controller type can now be changed to "Analog Joystick". Currently mapped to the left analog stick.

• Added new config option "Joystick Center Position". Most games work with the default (127). However some prefer a different "center" position. Silpheed (139), Skate Or Die (101).

• Sound MUCH improved now! Stuttering should be gone now.