Cave Story: mouse cursor in top left corner

[cricri-pingouin]

In Cave Story, the mouse cursor is always visible, and remains in the top left corner throughout the game.
Can we hide it please?

[HoraK-FDF]

I don't know if this is the same cursor but an cursor is also sometimes visible in the mega drive/genesis emulator picoDrive but I'm not sure what exactly triggers it atm.

[Rezzy-dev]

The cursor is there because there is native support for the mouse in Linux, and that's the default position in which the mouse appears in in this distribution of Linux (OpenDingux).

Software need to be explixitly told in the programming to not use a mouse, or the SDL layer needs to render above the visual interface, so that it covers and hides the cursor. This is why you'll sometimes see the mouse appear in the top left corner as you're exiting to the main UI and switching programs.

This is complicated by the fact that some software/emulators (such as Stella) actually need a mouse to work, to control their GUI -- so it's not practical to just get rid of the mouse in the operating system (and that would likely cause complications with software).

So it can be considered normal on this platform to sometimes briefly catch glimpses of the mouse cursor in the top left corner as you're switching applications.

But the mouse cursor in its default look (as the black and white arrow-head with the tail) shouldn't stay on top of the user interface. If this happens, then this can be considered a bug in that particular software on this platform.

I haven't noticed that PicoDrive has been doing this. I'm aware that it flashes the cursor briefly when you exit the emulator -- which is normal behaviour.

[salvacam]

In the Retroarch version the cursor is not shown, at least the first minutes of the game, I have not tried it anymore

[Rezzy-dev]

In RetroArch it wouldn't, since RetroArch specifically disabled and avoids using a mouse in its GUI if I'm not mistaken. (Since it's designed to be used in acrade kiosk mode.) This is not the case with other emulators and software -- since the mouse control is a normal and widely in-demand and available feature of all PC operating systems these days.

[Rezzy-dev]

Interesting to note that even DOSBox supports a mouse, and by default turned on -- even though mouse use back in the DOS days was rare, and software that support it are few! This is because people are so used to using a mouse/trackpad on the PC these days that they would complain if the mouse navigation/feature was not enabled by default.

[Apaczer]

Here is release without "obnoxious" cursor, however music still isn't present in this port
nx.zip
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