Also, maybe a speedier way to load save states, rather than exiting the game to load them.
Unless I'm missing an menu option?
Yes, I'd like to second that. Also, the following features I find very useful on the A500 mini and would love to see with the A600/1200 GS as well:
- Ability to crop away black borders and zoom the actual game area to fullscreen (saved individually per game, of course, it makes quite a difference to play games like R-Type fullscreen or with the black borders you're normally getting). It would be perfect to be able to do this while the on-screen-menu is showing and the games is paused. Then you'd have all the time to adjust the image to your liking. This would make it even better than the A500 mini feature where it's a bit of a trial-and-error thing to do.
- Access to the AmiBerry menu: I know this has been mentioned before, but I'd like to second this once more. I'm sure quite some games could be tweaked to perform better that way.
- Ability to map buttons to your liking. Ideally from the F12 on-screen-menu, without having to quit the current game.
And some things not in comparision with the A500 mini:
- I'd like to second AmigaBill's request for the F12 menu to wrap around (jump the the top item when pressing Down on the last item in vice versa). Although it's such a small thing, I find myself still getting irritated by it.
- Another one he already mentioned and I'd like to second: the main icons of the main menu jumping around when moving the mouse to its area. They really should be positioned at the same location no matter if the menu is opened or closed. I wouldn't mind the gaps between them. Even after several months of using the A600GS by now I still find myself moving the mouse to an icon and being annoyed be the fact that said icon is then lo longer where it just was.
- Now with the ARM improved MP3 playback ability (which is great!): an MHI device that could be used with HippoPlayer (and others) to route MP3 playback would seem like the next logic step, right?
Sorry if any of this sounds too negative, it should not. In general I am greatly enjoying the A600GS and especially that it's in very active development and we're getting updates all the time. Keep up the good work, you're doing great!
Cheers,
Michael