libretro
Game hacking in Retroarch
Description
Hacking games in retroarch is really inconvenient. It looks like it works similar to Cheat Engine but instead of being able to type the value of the number I'm trying to hack I have to hold down the right or left arrow keys. If the number is large (in my case the number is 103000) than it can take 5-10 minutes to get to the desired number to search for. I also can't use cheat engine because the only value types retroarch uses are bytes and any number higher than 255 won't be found or changed.
And yes, I did not leave the cheat search on 8 bit like in the picture, I did change it to higher bits, I just took the picture to demonstrate what I was doing.
Environment information
- OS: Windows 10
- Compiler: I'm using regular Retroarch, according to system information
- The build date is: Oct 24 2021
- The Git Version is e2b7c23
I read the posts, it looks like other people have made the same complaint. Has anything been done to make it a text input instead of a selector?
It's absolutely insane that this wasn't a text field input out of the gate. For it to still not be so just speaks to the stubbornness of the gamepad-above-everything UI design. It's a great frontend, but its usability is trash-tier.
@TaintedMustard This stuff isn't always trivial to change, and even if it is, it requires someone who cares enough about it to actually do it. So, if it bothers you enough to make it happen, PRs welcome.
@TaintedMustard This stuff isn't always trivial to change, and even if it is, it requires someone who cares enough about it to actually do it. So, if it bothers you enough to make it happen, PRs welcome.
I'm not a programmer so I wouldn't know but shouldn't it be easier to program a text box (that already exists) with a search engine instead of some elaborate number dial system where you have to hold one of two buttons and all the numbers up to infinity cycle through that same text box?
What would be required to change the text box so that numbers can be typed instead of dialed?