Normally I like to TOGGLE PAUSE with SPACE key when things get close. However, if I get too close and 'die', the SPACE won't TOGGLE PAUSE instead it'll go back to the menu, denying me from looking at whatever just happened.It'd be nice if SPACE were to still TOGGLE PAUSE even after death.
If there's a prompt it shouldn't be too easy to accidentally pick the an option.
what I want to do upon dying is replay the last run up to where I went wrong, definitely not restart the level from scratch! But I can see some people would want that...
To go back to a previous game state, you can click on the STOP button [] then click on the PLAY button |> (several times for different speeds), then the PAUSE button || when it gets to the spot you want to restart at, then press record () to start playing again. Complicated, when you just want to go back a few steps. There is a save state you can use, and go back to.
WARNING: There maybe software bugs with the save states(like, If you want to be able to continue from a state after restarting Rocks'n'Diamonds, make sure you're stopped when you make a save state), and you may have to start over from an earlier state using above method, and it is easy to mess up in doing this. Tapes might get messed up along the way; to verify that the tape works play back the tape from start not a saved state.
(method might be a little different if you have different CUSTOM ARTWORK setup then me)
In the game XYE you can go back a state with the DELETE key. (BACKSPACE for this might make more since, like in typing). Although there's no going forwards, and no save points other than the last state with XYE. [try saying this going forward grammatically, what tense is it? Past's Future Tense?... After going back, to see what you had done after the point you have gone back to ] It would be nice if Rocks'n'Diamonds also had this back to the last state feature in addition to it's[Rocks'n'Diamonds] save and restart at a state feature, and continue from a playback state feature.
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