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Faithful remake, quality, was excited to actually give this an extended go, but honestly, i was hoping for actual touch controls on my android phone rather than using an on-screen dpad and a,b,l,r,sta,sel buttons..

Moving the cursor with dpad takes a million years, on-screen controls on phones are abysmal in any game. I might aswell just boot up the real game in retroarch at this point..

Judging by the menu options it looks like you have mouse controls already implemented for the pc version, because if i disable the onscreen buttons i can move the cursor by touching the screen, but if i try to save and close the options, i can no longer close the pause menu, instead the only option is to go back into the options..

Making this work properly for phones is the only thing that makes sense for a pocket chao garden  and i don't understand why it seems like such an afterthought..

Anyway, cool project, really well made, but it's basically a chore to play on phone because of the controls.

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I appreciate your feedback. While a lot of what exists currently would work perfectly fine with touch controls, I have one issue that I need to figure out a workaround for- the inventory system. Normally with mouse controls you'd open up the inventory by clicking the tab that appears when the cursor is near the bottom of the screen, or it would open automatically when you have an item in hand at that same range. The problem is that touch simulates mouse movement and clicking at the same time, so if you pick up an item, then touch towards the bottom, the item will be dropped as the inventory appears. Although, I could probably just ignore the click as the inventory comes up, huh...

Disabling the buttons was more for using a mouse/keyboard/controller with your phone, but I forgot to add mouse control to the pause menu, so I'll get that fixed.

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As it turns out, you can drag items to the bottom by just by not releasing the click after grabbing them, so it looks like I won't have to change much...