I found out about GIMX a few days ago ; I immediatly loved the project, and was thinking about using it for one of my own : creating a combo editor/player for fighting games (street fighter & co), aimed at video makers (either helping them experimentating before manually executing it, or recording a fully automated combo).
Now, I managed to get a working bluetooth dongle, and started browsing the source code, but I still have a few concerns. Fighting games run at 60fps, so to stay in a best case scenario, I need to be able to send input events every ~16.667ms.
My questions are :
- DEFAULT_DELAY in macros : right now, there seems to be a minimum delay between a keydown and a keyup event of 50ms (though it doesn't seem to be enforced if you send the 2 events separately). Is it some arbitrary value, or is there some kind of limitation or reasoning behind it ? Would it be possible to send a keydown event, then a keyup event the next frame (16.667ms later) and still be reliable (i.e. the PS3 will register the input everytime) ?
- refresh in emuclient : it is 10ms by default. Theoretically, it should guarantee that i get a refresh every frame. But is it possible to get it lower to have some kind of "safe margin" ?
I guess it can't go lower than the time it takes the cpu to complete one iteration of the main loop, but do you know how low it can get reasonably ?
- just to be sure : with macro, if I define 2 KEYDOWN event on 2 successive lines (without DELAY between them), they will be simultaneous ?
I'm still not sure whether I'll use your emuclient & macros, or if I'll rewrite my own simpler client that suits my needs, but your answers would greatly help me about the feasibility of my projet
Thanks in advance
