Storm Dragon
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Using the Menus
The menus for the game launcher are quite simple. In order to move through items in the main menu, use up, down, left and right arrows. To select an item, press enter on it. That is likely how you opened this document. There are a few more options though. Here is a list of keybindings.
Game Selection Menu
This is the menu that opens when you first boot the Raspberry pi. It also is where you are placed after closing an application or document such as this help file.
- Up Arrow: Move up an item.
- Down Arrow: Move down an item.
- Enter: Activate the currently selected item.
- Left Arrow: Change category, Arcade, Text Games, Web, Media, etc.
- Right Arrow: Change category, Arcade, Text Games, Web, Media, etc.
- 9: Decrease system volume.
- 0: Increase system volume.
- Left Bracket: Decrease speech rate.
- Right Bracket: Increase speech rate.
- Escape: Refresh the menu. Use this if for some reason you lose speech in the menu.
Apple 2e Disk Menu
This is the menu that opens when you select "Apple 2e with Disk."
- Up Arrow: Move up an item.
- Down Arrow: Move down an item.
- Enter: Activate the currently selected item.
- Escape: Close the menu.
- 9: Decrease system volume.
- 0: Increase system volume.
- Left Bracket: Decrease speech rate.
- Right Bracket: Increase speech rate.
Game Console Menu
This is the menu that opens from the Emulators menu. It only has categories for games it can find. If there are no games, it will say "no games found," and return to the main menu.
- Up Arrow: Move up an item.
- Down Arrow: Move down an item.
- Enter: Activate the currently selected item.
- Left Arrow: Change game system, Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Master System, etc.
- Right Arrow: Change game system, Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Master System, etc.
- Escape: Close the menu.
- 9: Decrease system volume.
- 0: Increase system volume.
- Left Bracket: Decrease speech rate.
- Right Bracket: Increase speech rate.
Music Player Menu
This is a menu of music you have put on the Pi. You can use the Upload Server to add music. Recommended folder structure is artist folder/albums. So, select artist folder when uploading and it will pull in all the album subdirectories. Other formats will work, but this is the optimal layout.
- Up Arrow: Move up an album or song if in album view.
- Down Arrow: Move down an album or song if in album view.
- Enter: Activate the currently selected item. If it's an album, show contents, if it's a song, play it.
- Left Arrow: Change artist view, special note, to play all music, press left once when the menu opens.
- Right Arrow: Change artist view.
- q: Close the menu.
- Escape: Close the menu.
- 9: Decrease system volume.
- 0: Increase system volume.
- Left Bracket: Decrease speech rate.
- Right Bracket: Increase speech rate.
The main menu will announce when it has gained focus. There is a sound that plays when the image boots as well as when the image is powering down. The sound for power on always plays, but the image for power off may not play every time. This is a problem with how quickly shutdown disables things, and currently there is no reliable solution for making it work constantly.