At 6/16/25 11:45 AM, BlueMonday1984 wrote:Went and mapped K.O.L.M.I.A.M. after giving it a quick spin:
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/566705
In what appears to be a bit of a recurring trend, I've noticed the K.O.L.M. games could be put into a dedicated series of their own.
Done!
At 6/16/25 03:16 PM, TomFulp wrote:At 6/16/25 11:45 AM, BlueMonday1984 wrote:Went and mapped K.O.L.M.I.A.M. after giving it a quick spin:
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/566705
In what appears to be a bit of a recurring trend, I've noticed the K.O.L.M. games could be put into a dedicated series of their own.
Done!
https://www.newgrounds.com/series/kolm
I've went and mapped K.O.L.M. 2 as well:
Barring the Kickstarter Demo (which hasn't been ruffled yet), this means the full series is mapped for now.
Went and made a map for Scarlet Stranger:
Went on a bit of a mapping spree recently. Here's a progress report:
(Controls for this were odd - ESDF for Player 1 movement?)
(Mapped rum and bombs to bumpers, since they aren't always available.)
(Both games have identical controls, so mapping McCoy 2 was easy after mapping McCoy 1 - the only difference is McCoy 2 maps P to Pause, whilst McCoy 1 leaves it unmapped AFAIK.)
Mapped a couple more games recently:
I've also trimmed the mapping for Run Elephant Run:
"Up" and "Down" got removed for being redundant. I've also mapped jumping to the A button, and restarting to the B button.
Edited the mappings for both Elephant Rave games:
Both games had up-to-jump, which was redundant with jump on the A button.
Elephant Rave 1 also had down mapped, when that arrow went unused, and didn't map space (used for starting or retrying) to anything.
Went and mapped the second Sonac the Hodgeman game:
The mapping is a bit longer than normal - the game allows the player to control two characters at once. For mapping Knackles' movement, I could easily just set him on the right stick and call it a day.
To my knowledge, this is the only Sonac the Hodgeman game to do this, so mapping the rest should be straightforward.
EDIT: Re-labelled the "Left" and "Right" mappings for Sonac to "Slow Down" and "Speed Up", respectively - that slipped me at first.
Went and mapped a few of Wiesi's old games, which seem to have gone under the radar:
(Arrow key controls don't function in Surf Point Blue - the mapping will prove helpful if/when this gets fixed)
Went and mapped Sonac the Hodgeman 5 whilst medal-hunting:
Discovered this was unmapped whilst medal hunting. Went and mapped it:
Edited the mapping for Tails' Nightmare:
"Up" and Down" have been relabelled to "Fly/Tail Spin" and "Crouch/Spin Dash" to make their functions more clear.
Q (used for exiting to the main menu) has been mapped as well.
EDIT: Recently added mapping for Four Second Fury, after realising it hadn't been mapped yet:
EDIT: Did the same for Tails' Nightmare 2 as well, relabelling "Up" and "Down" to something more descriptive ("Fly/Enter Door" and "Crouch/Spin Dash", respectively):
(Also, it seems the window for editing posts got extended recently - not sure if that's a Supporter thing, or a universal update.)
Stumbled across (and mapped) Feed the Children whilst medal hunting - seems this fell under everyone's radars:
I've also edited the mapping for Snailiad, swapping Pause from P to Escape:
Escape pauses the game like P does, but also skips cutscenes.
At 6/21/25 06:37 AM, BlueMonday1984 wrote:EDIT: Recently added mapping for Four Second Fury, after realising it hadn't been mapped yet:
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/309403
Mapped the other two Four Second games as well:
(Firestorm features mouse-based microgames, but those can only be accessed through Mouse mode)
Putting these three into a series would be a good idea, I feel.
At 6/21/25 10:00 AM, BlueMonday1984 wrote:At 6/21/25 06:37 AM, BlueMonday1984 wrote:EDIT: Recently added mapping for Four Second Fury, after realising it hadn't been mapped yet:Mapped the other two Four Second games as well:
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/309403
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/327270
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/345378
(Firestorm features mouse-based microgames, but those can only be accessed through Mouse mode)
Putting these three into a series would be a good idea, I feel.
Done!
Mapped the original Achievement Unlocked;
Ended up pulling out the DVD Game mapping for this one, as some achievements require menu navigation. The colour-based achievements can be earned simply by rotating the right stick, whilst "Vertical Confusion" can be earned by pressing A and B simultaneously.
The game isn't perfectly mappable (there's a few achievements (e.g. No Cheese For You) which require the mouse), but this should work well enough.
As AU2 and AU3 aren't available in Ruffle, AU1's the only game of the trilogy I can map right now. Speaking of, I think the entire trilogy should be put into its own series.
Knocked out a few more maps going through iluvAS' catalogue:
Most of his games are unruffled, so I'm gonna quickly test them now.
At 6/21/25 05:11 PM, BlueMonday1984 wrote:Knocked out a few more maps going through iluvAS' catalogue:
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/553276
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/600103
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/545658
Most of his games are unruffled, so I'm gonna quickly test them now.
Now that iluvAS's catalogue is fully ruffled, I've went and mapped most of his games:
(Props to iluvAS for allowing menu navigation with the keyboard in this one - you were ahead of your time there.)
(Face button mappings corresponded to their colours on an Xbox controller, and the D-pad was the obvious choice for changing line count, but everything else was pretty much arbitrary.)
I found this through last week's Throwback Tuesday, and noticed no one else did the mapping, so I did.
A & D = D-pad
Space = Low face button
Went and remapped G-Switch recently, after finding multiple issues with its mapping:
Giving a quick changelog:
Here's the original, for comparison:
As an added note, the game has support for up to six players - if the controller limit ever gets raised beyond four, I'll extend the mapping accordingly.
I thought I'd mapped Human Centipede: The Game a while ago, but it turns out I hadn't - I had made a personal map for it, but not a global map. Fixed that now:
Racked up a couple more maps - and I literally mean a couple.
Game of Disorientation was nothing special - I could just click two buttons to auto-assign the arrow keys and call it a day.
Bomb It and Bomb It 2, meanwhile, were a right kick in the dick, as both have completely different control schemes for singleplayer and multiplayer:
For this, I ended up needing to map three separate controllers for a two-player game - Player 1 got the controls for singleplayer, and Players 2 and 3 got the controls for multiplayer.
I'm not sure what policy is on editing games to add/edit keyboard controls, but I would be entirely okay with editing the controls in singleplayer to match Player 1's controls in multiplayer in this case.
At 6/23/25 05:41 PM, Dungeonation wrote:At 6/23/25 05:15 PM, BlueMonday1984 wrote:For this, I ended up needing to map three separate controllers for a two-player game - Player 1 got the controls for singleplayer, and Players 2 and 3 got the controls for multiplayer.
I'm not sure what policy is on editing games to add/edit keyboard controls, but I would be entirely okay with editing the controls in singleplayer to match Player 1's controls in multiplayer in this case.
That’s tough, ‘cuz yeah, idk if anyone wants to plug in three controllers in order to play multiplayer all on controller
I'm not sure what possessed me to do this, but I went and edited Bomb It 2 in JPEXS to alter its default controls:
https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/b72044c2efe47daab0558a40d41247f4
The edit in question was changing a single line of code in actionSprite.ui.HowToPlay.
Before:
After:
(This fix doesn't affect the character select screen - the controls for that are stuffed in actionSprite.ui.CharacterSelect.)
I could probably apply this fix to Bomb It 1, but its past midnight where I live, so I'll do that tomorrow.
You want my opinion on this, I'm a mix of relieved and pissed off.
On the one hand, this was hilariously easy - the only hurdle I faced was working out which numbers corresponded to which keyboard keys (helpfully, a function called initData() gave me all the info I needed).
On the other hand, all this could've been avoided if Spil Games never did this weird shit with the controls in the first fucking place.
Ah, well, problem solved. I can sleep easy now.
There is an impressive amount of depth to this relatively small game. I wonder why it doesn't have a TV Tropes page yet.
Arrow Keys = D-pad
Up Arrow Key = Low face button
Space = Left face button
P = Start
On another note, there's supposed to be a sequel in the works, but the creator hasn't made any updates in a while.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1689370/Inquisitive_Dave/
At 6/23/25 07:18 PM, BlueMonday1984 wrote:At 6/23/25 05:41 PM, Dungeonation wrote:I'm not sure what possessed me to do this, but I went and edited Bomb It 2 in JPEXS to alter its default controls:At 6/23/25 05:15 PM, BlueMonday1984 wrote:For this, I ended up needing to map three separate controllers for a two-player game - Player 1 got the controls for singleplayer, and Players 2 and 3 got the controls for multiplayer.
I'm not sure what policy is on editing games to add/edit keyboard controls, but I would be entirely okay with editing the controls in singleplayer to match Player 1's controls in multiplayer in this case.
That’s tough, ‘cuz yeah, idk if anyone wants to plug in three controllers in order to play multiplayer all on controller
https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/b72044c2efe47daab0558a40d41247f4
[Description of the one-line fix]
Update on my attempt to unfuck Bomb It 2's controls - I've fixed the character select screen, editing the controls and the visuals:
Fixing the visuals was a simple copy-paste job - I simply copied the A/D key sprites already available, pasted them over, and deleted the arrow key sprites.
The controls themselves were equally simple - by simply applying the same trick I mentioned in my previous post, I could change the controls with ease. Here's the before:
And after:
With that, I think my fix should be good to replace the current SWF. I've uploaded it to my Dump:
https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/15820fbf83c45585e558f2b19bf2e6c4
If the SWF does get replaced, do tell me.
At 6/23/25 07:18 PM, BlueMonday1984 wrote:You want my opinion on this, I'm a mix of relieved and pissed off.
On the one hand, this was hilariously easy - the only hurdle I faced was working out which numbers corresponded to which keyboard keys (helpfully, a function called initData() gave me all the info I needed).
On the other hand, all this could've been avoided if Spil Games never did this weird shit with the controls in the first fucking place.
Wow, I can only admire your incredible dedication. :)
Although I probably wouldn’t blame any 2008 game for the lack of nice input handling (or following any proven coding practice from our “modern” point of view). A different time, tools were also quite fresh and without much community support or tutorials – so I imagine sometimes it was just nice to get things working the way you intended.
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In other news, I'm mostly browsing old Flash game collections to map controls, but I just randomly remembered Mardek – both chapters should now have gamepad mapping.
Moving on from the mapping nightmare that was Bomb It, I've went and mapped Brainbots:
I usually don't map up to jump in platformers, but the minigame between levels requires moving in all four directions using the arrow keys.
EDIT: Went and mapped the rest of GameSQUID's games as well:
(Radarix was already mapped a while ago, and its mapping didn't need any touch-ups.)
The color switching mechanic and shooting action remind me of Ikaruga if it were a metroidvania. A fun, if challenging, game to play. However, the frame rate is slow as molasses in Ruffle. Does it have something to do with Stage3D?
A & D = D-Pad
W = Low Face Button
Space = Left Face Button
Arrow Keys = Right Stick
Esc = Start
Went and mapped Pogo Swing! recently:
Pretty simple mapping, but it works perfectly well for this simple game.
