UberNES Screensaver

[xHyperSteve]

Dude!!l great news!

Previously both controllers had to be active in the prior versions but look is almost complete and set to release on the fly detection of controllers making Xpadder completely unncessary.

I'm beta testing right now. Love it

[ninja2bceen]

Sound like xpadder isn't necessary. I have p1 and p2 controllers buttons set based on the controller. Both controllers have the same set up if you really look at them. I have p1 ready and I look for tmnt that has two players (I see Michelangelo and Donatello). I notice michalengelo plays fine as player one but player two doesn't move. I reset nes using player one button and still can't get player two movement to happen. If I exit the game I do notice that I can get the 2 player cursors to display and move games around

I'm not sure 2 player works in game yet. Both player one and two appear to have the same mapping. How did you make them work?

[xHyperSteve]

Hmmm I've never had that problem. You set the buttons for both controllers in settings right? Might want to pm Luke

[ninja2bceen]

Pm sent, it may be a bug. Note I'm using PS3 controllers. Everything else works though, player two just can't jump in and play

[ninja2bceen]

More testing and it seems that to get two players to work I first have activate player two by pressing a button so I can see the red and green arrows. Then when I select a two player game I have to have to move both arrows to the game and press the take over button. Note the game never goes to full screen in two player and I'm just playing on the video wall. Note one player zooms in. Also when just on one player I can move the video wall pages. Once I get the second player cursor I'm stuck on the one page of video wall

Can we get this to zoom in when playing two players?

When two cursors are displaying on the video wall can we get this to be able to page over on the video wall or have a way to turn off player two cursor?

Can we get this to just allow player two to just press a button while in a two player game to start playing?

[ninja2bceen]

Discovery, if I pause player one and move player two then press the take over button and unpause player one then player two is functional! Still have the issue with opening to full screen if two cursors are there and moving to the next page if two cursors are there though

[xHyperSteve]

Glad you got some progress I'll email look to see if he has any thoughts if he doesn't get back to you bro, busy guy doing coll stuff with the new version

[ninja2bceen]

Thanks again. Ha it turns out I don't have to press pause I just have to push the button on player two and take over the screen and it works. However the cursors displaying two of them on the wall doesn't allow you to zoom in or page over

Thanks

[Luke4239]

A lot of this is recapping what ninja2bceen has figured out, but I'll try to add some clarity on how the multiplayer stuff works: to get a 2-player game going, you need to have 2 game cursors on the movie wall. To play a 2P game, each cursor needs to highlight/select the same game, and each cursor needs to press the "take over" button. Whoever presses "take over" first gets the NES controller 1 slot, the next person gets controller 2.

You CAN "zoom in" on a 2P game, but there are some restrictions to make it work - to get a "zoomed-in" game, place both cursors on the desired game before either one "takes over". Also make sure that no other cursors are highlighting other games on the selected monitor. A bit confusing, but there is a certain logic to it.

Thinking about it more, I see a change that probably should be made: if a 2P joins a non-zoomed game, then it should zoom-in since both cursors are now aligned on the same game. Progress!

[ninja2bceen]

Thanks and don't forget that you can't move to the right or left or up or down a new page with two cursors even if they move together. Also note that once I got two cursors no matter the combo it wouldn't zoom. Xoom only worked with one cursor and 2 player could join after the zoom no problem

[ninja2bceen]

Any updates here?

[xHyperSteve]

As soon as Luke decides to release the new version. I'm using it and it works awesomely, but as far as I know there's no date.

[Luke4239]

I haven't been able to reproduce the zoom issue; if you place both cursors on a game prior to "taking over" with either one, then it should zoom properly (provided there isn't a 3rd cursor elsewhere on the monitor.) I still need to make the update where a second player taking over/joining in a game should trigger a "zoom" effect. Regarding the scrolling up/down/left/right to bring in new pages, it's like that by design. The thinking was that I didn't want one cursor to be able to move another cursor around the screen by triggering page scrolls, especially if someone is playing a game.

I've got a couple other ideas I want to implement before posting a new beta/revision. Please bear with me!

[ninja2bceen]

Withe the scrolling, if you scroll both over at the same time so

Odd it move? Take over a game and then try

I'd be happy to test ur version to see if it fixes my issue?

[xHyperSteve]

I haven't been able to reproduce the zoom issue; if you place both cursors on a game prior to "taking over" with either one, then it should zoom properly (provided there isn't a 3rd cursor elsewhere on the monitor.) I still need to make the update where a second player taking over/joining in a game should trigger a "zoom" effect. Regarding the scrolling up/down/left/right to bring in new pages, it's like that by design. The thinking was that I didn't want one cursor to be able to move another cursor around the screen by triggering page scrolls, especially if someone is playing a game.

I've got a couple other ideas I want to implement before posting a new beta/revision. Please bear with me!

Luke thanks so much for engaging the community and creating the coolest screensaver on the web. Looking forward to the next beta post.

[ninja2bceen]

Thanks for the scrolling try this

Player one enters a game and exits

Player one scrolls over a page

Player one enters a game

Player two enters that games live

Player one and two exit the game

Player one scrolls to a new page but is stopped

Player two moves to same location but is stopped

Player one and player two presses the same key say right to scroll to next page but it doesn't

Wake up screen saver and go back to sleep

Notice if only one player can scroll fine

[ninja2bceen]

I have added this to the download page

[ninja2bceen]

File Name: UberNES Screensaver

File Submitter: ninja2bceen

File Submitted: 06 May 2015

File Category: HyperSpin 3rd Party Applications

Credits: ubernes author

Updates can be found here: http://www.ubernes.com/nesscreensaver.html all credits go to the

author for this amazing piece of work. I'm just uploading this

Nintendo Screen Saver 2015

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Installation Instructions

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1. Move the "Nintendo Saver.scr" file to your "C:/Windows/System32" directory.

(On older versions of Windows, you may need to place the file in your "C:/Windows/System" directory.)

2. Configure the Nintendo Screen Saver through the usual Windows Screen Saver dialog:

a. Right-click on your Windows desktop.

b. Click the "Properties" menu item.

c. Click the "Screen Saver" tab.

d. Select "Nintendo Saver" from the list of available screen savers.

e. Click the "Settings" button to view the Nintendo Screen Saver options window

f. Follow the instructions displayed on the window to complete the installation

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Thanks:

blaarg - For NTSC filter (http://www.slack.net/~ant/libs/ntsc.html)

Maxim Stepin - For hqx image filters (http://www.hiend3d.com/hq3x.html)

Banshaku, Shamus, thefox - For helpful suggestions, debugging

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For more information:

UberNES homepage: http://www.ubernes.com

Nintendo Saver homepage: http://www.ubernes.com/nesscreensaver.html

hyperspin forum: http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/topic/6628-excluse-beta-test-nes-screensaver-brought-to-you-by-ubernes/?hl=ubernes

Click here to download this file

[xHyperSteve]

File Name: UberNES Screensaver

File Submitter: LSDguy

File Submitted: 07 May 2015

File Category: Add-Ons

Updates can be found here: all credits go to the

author for this amazing piece of work. I'm just uploading this

Nintendo Screen Saver 2015

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Installation Instructions

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1. Move the "Nintendo Saver.scr" file to your "C:/Windows/System32" directory.

(On older versions of Windows, you may need to place the file in your "C:/Windows/System" directory.)

2. Configure the Nintendo Screen Saver through the usual Windows Screen Saver dialog:

a. Right-click on your Windows desktop.

b. Click the "Properties" menu item.

c. Click the "Screen Saver" tab.

d. Select "Nintendo Saver" from the list of available screen savers.

e. Click the "Settings" button to view the Nintendo Screen Saver options window

f. Follow the instructions displayed on the window to complete the installation

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Thanks:

blaarg - For NTSC filter (http://www.slack.net.../libs/ntsc.html)

Maxim Stepin - For hqx image filters (http://www.hiend3d.com/hq3x.html)

Banshaku, Shamus, thefox - For helpful suggestions, debugging

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For more information:

UberNES homepage: http://www.ubernes.com

Nintendo Saver homepage: http://www.ubernes.com/nesscreensaver.html

Click here to download this file