Bug#786434: desmume: Man page reverses key bindings

gwern gwern at gwern.net
Thu May 21 17:05:35 UTC 2015


Package: desmume
Version: 0.9.10-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

1. The keybinding information seems to be outdated and reverses 3 bindings:

       Keyboard can be configured and by default works as follows:
              F1-F10 load savegame from slot 1-10
              Shift+F1-F10 save game to slot 1-10
              Non-keypad arrows act as d-pad
              z = A
              x = B
              ...
              Left Shift = SELECT

x/z have been flipped, as has left/right shift. That is: x = A, z = B, select = Shift_R.
(Screenshot of default keybindings: https://i.imgur.com/vnAVHqs.png)

2. The man page also omits the option `--depth-threshold`; passing an option like `--depth-threshold=10` is necessary to get some games like _Advance Wars: Dual Strike_ into a playable state (eg, you can't see the cursor in _Dual Strike_ without that option; #452 https://sourceforge.net/p/desmume/bugs/452/ ).

3. Also, less importantly, the man page says

       --opengl-2d
              Enables using OpenGL for screen rendering

But this option no longer seems to exist:

    $ desmume --opengl-2d
    Error parsing command line arguments: Unknown option --opengl-2d
    Failed to set format: Invalid argument

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.utf8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages desmume depends on:
ii  libasound2                1.0.28-1
ii  libc6                     2.19-18
ii  libcairo2                 1.14.0-2.1
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.9.2-10
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.31.1-2+b1
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]  10.5.5-1
ii  libglade2-0               1:2.6.4-2
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.44.0-2
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1]    9.0.0-2
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.25-3
ii  libgtkglext1              1.2.0-3.2
ii  libosmesa6                10.5.5-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0            1.36.8-3
ii  libsdl1.2debian           1.2.15-11
ii  libsoundtouch0            1.8.0-1
ii  libstdc++6                4.9.2-10
ii  libtinyxml2.6.2           2.6.2-2
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1

desmume recommends no packages.

desmume suggests no packages.

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