Closing an idle´s player slot causes the hand position to reset preventing the slot from reopening

[Sham Rock]

we´ve all had that infuriating moment when someone left his cursor on the upper half of the screen and you had to get up from the couch and move allll the way to console to get to his controller. Well, not anymore you dont.


Closing an idle´s player slot causes the hand position to reset (Pal)
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Simply put there´s a counter in the background 817ffff4 that counts how long a player has been idle, if its 255 frames while a port gets closed it will make the game think that controller hasn´t been plugged in for 1 frame resetting it cursor position


I put this as in progress since there´s still one thing missing, you can´t close a players slot while his cursor is still holding on to that puck thingy, should be 1 or 2 simple nop overwrites to fix that. I´m not gonna be able to look into that until mid Juli when my exams are over, if anybody else wants to contribute feel free to do so. My guess would be somewhere in the function of 802619a4.

 

[Dan Salvato]

Wouldn't a simpler solution be to simply enable the ability to close a player slot no matter where the hand is? Or am I misunderstanding the purpose of this code?

 

[Sham Rock]

You already have the ability to close a port, the only thing is that they reopen themselves when the hand is in specific regions of the css. Let P2´s hand sit on over any character portrait after selecting one, now the others cannot deactivate that player without him moving his cursor down again, since the slot always reopens on its own. The problem mentioned is that the other players are locked out of deactivating your slot when your still holding on to your button/puck thingy, meaning if someone let the setup while hovering above the char portraits without putting that puck down they could not deactivate his slot.

 

[Achilles1515]

Enable Port Closing with Held Cursor Puck (1.02) [Achilles]
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