Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure (Steam 358250)

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• Link to Steam store: https://store.steampowered.com/app/358250/Cosmos_Cosmic_Adventure/

System Information

• Linux distribution: Ubuntu 20.04
• Kernel: 5.4.0-121-generic
• Desktop: Gnome
• DOSBox: DOSBox version 0.74-3

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• The game runs out of the box: Yes

Configuration changes

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Cosmo is a bit of an odd game, in that the Steam "game" is three games or three parts. There is then a Dosbox .conf file that, among other things, creates a menu where you choose between the parts. Prior to using your great tool, I would go into the game folder and just type dosbox COSMO1.EXE for the first part, dosbox COSMO2.EXE etc, then pressing Alt+Enter to make it fullscreen. I use it with a Logitech Cordless Rumblepad 2. To do that in Cosmo, there is a menu where you press "G" to reconfigure the game, then "J" to set up the joystick and have to do the "top-left, button, bottom-right, button" routine, then play and it all works brilliantly. The one joystick annoyance I normally have is that there are pop-up windows when you hit a "hint globe" that you have to push any key on the keyboard to get rid of, but nothing on the controller will get rid of them. I give all that detail because the controller is not working the same way with your tool. I also have had no issues with the controller and other Steam games.

• The game loads up as you would expect. On first load it did not play any music for me, only sound effects, but for subsequent loads it seemed to work fine. I reinstalled and the same thing happened. But then I deleted the folder completely and reinstalled again and this time it worked.
• The main issue I have is that the controller is not working properly, in that it is like I'm using a joystick that is incorrectly calibrated to make me keep walking to the right. You can make it go other directions and use the buttons etc, but if you let go the character continually moves in that direction. I tried deleting the [joystick] section of the Cosmo.conf, but it did not seem to help.

I played the first level through with the keyboard with absolutely no issues, so aside from the joystick thing, all seems perfect.

The dosbox conf file used (Cosmo.conf) is:
Cosmo_conf.txt

It's called with:
start dosbox -conf "..\COSMO.conf" -noconsole -c

It is only £0.79 at the moment, so if any of the devs, particularly one with a controller with joysticks, would like to have a go, I would happily buy and gift a copy (with no obligations that you make it work any better than it does now).