about.txt

About
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Esoteric is based on GMenuNX, which descended from GMenu2X, and was butchered into submission by podulator.
Website: https://github.com/podulator/esoteric

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## Controls

- D-Pad L, R: PageUp/PageDown on lists;
- D-Pad U, D: Up, Down and wrap on lists
- A: Accept / Launch selected link / Confirm action;
- B: Back / Cancel action / Goes up one directory in file browser;
- Y: Bring up the manual/readme;
- L1, R1: Switch between sections / PageUp/PageDown on lists;
- L2, R2: Jump to next letter in a list
- START: System settings;
- SELECT: Bring up the contextual menu;

In settings:

- A, LEFT, RIGHT: Accept, select or toggle setting;
- B: Back or cancel edits and return;
- START: Save edits and return;
- SELECT: Clear or set default value.

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## HDMI instructions for emulators

Xmame simulator
Enter and click the game to adjust Sound Freq to 44100

fba simulator
After upgrading HMDI, you need to set the default value of the FBA simulator.
 and open the FBA simulator and press start to enter the Default ROM settings. At this time, there are two options in the list: default run game settings and Delete all saved ROM configs. Enter the default run game settings first, set the audio sample rate to 44100hz, and return to the previous layer and click Delete all saved ROM configs, and then go to the list of games, just click on a game to view it, hertz defaults to 44100, which means success.

fc simulator
Enter any game, press L1, enter Settings, enter Video setup and adjust Video scaling to fc fast, then go back to the previous layer, enter Sound Setup, set Sound rate to 44100, go back to the previous layer, save all settings as default, press Save config as default so other games also have this setting, then return to the game screen, if the screen is not full, press the power button to add A to fill the screen,

gba simulator
Open the display settings, and replace the image scaling with Full, Linear.

gngeo simulator
Select OPTION, press A to change the Sample Rate to 44100, then press Save conf for very game to save as the settings for all games

mame4all simulator
(this simulator has poor compatibility, so it is recommended to use FBA simulator)
You can enter any game and set the sound option to 44.


HDMI Common problem solving

• 1.Connect to the HDMI and the screen goes black
At this time, just press any button then can connect

• 2. The Fc simulator screen is not tiled
Press Power + A key can usually be tiled, if can’t, you can press L1, enter Settings, enter Video setup and adjust Video scaling to fc fast

• 3. The mame simulator sound with high voice pitch
Set Hertz to 44 before entering the game

• 4. The game cannot be connected to HDMI in the emulator
As long as you exit to the main interface, you can connect to HDMI.

• 5. Black screen when connect HDMI in the emulator or in the game
You can select + power button to force to quit, exit to the main interface and then connect to HDMI again, it is best to connect HDMI to the main interface and enter the emulator.

• 6. The ps simulator screen display is not accurate
Press the power key to enter the menu, then enter GPU settings, set the video scaling, switch between hardware mode or nearest mode to solve the screen problem.
Optional: Set Frame skip to 1, most games do not need to manually stretch the frame.

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OLD CREDITS

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GMenuNX is a fork of GMenu2X, developed by pingflood to Retrogame RS-97, released under the GNU GPL license v2.
Website: https://github.com/pingflood/GMenuNX

GMenu2X is developed by Massimiliano "Ryo" Torromeo, and is released under the GPL-v2 license.
Website: http://mtorromeo.github.com/gmenu2x
E-Mail & PayPal account: massimiliano.torromeo@gmail.com

Thanks goes to...

Contributors
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NoidZ for his gp2x' buttons graphics
Pickle for the initial Wiz and Caanoo ports
Steward for the initial RetroGame RS-97 ports

Beta testers
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Goemon4, PokeParadox, PSyMastR and Tripmonkey_uk (GP2X)
Yann Vaillant (WIZ)
jutley and m1024 (RS-97)

Translators
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English & Italian by Massimiliano
French by Yodaz
Danish by claus
Dutch by superfly
Spanish by pedator
Portuguese (Portugal) by NightShadow
Portuguese (Brazil) by pingflood
Slovak by Jozef
Swedish by Esslan and Micket
German by fusion_power, johnnysnet and Waldteufel
Finnish by Jontte and Atte
Norwegian by cowai
Russian by XaMMaX90
Chinese (CN) by KungfuPanda
Chinese (TW) by TonyJih
Korean by haven-jeon

Donors
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EvilDragon (www.gp2x.de)
Tecnologie Creative (www.tecnologiecreative.it)
TelcoLou
gaterooze
deepmenace
superfly
halo9
sbock
b._.o._.b
Jacopastorius
lorystorm90
and all the anonymous donors...
(If I missed to list you or if you want to be removed, contact me.)