Make menu navigation feel more like the PSP's XMB (Issue #1)

[jayare5]

Expected behavior

If you press and hold up, down, left or right, the cursor should take 1 step, quick pause, and then continue running through the rest of the list at a faster, but fixed speed. (I suggest using a PSP to get the expected feel of this on a menu with a lot of options. Maybe a PS3 would do, but I don't own one to confirm, I own a PSP.)

Actual behavior

The cursor currently starts slow, then gains speed to the point it skips too many entries per step.

[Ferk]

Having confirmations for everything can quickly become annoying.
Has there ever been a game platform that asked confirmation for taking a screenshot?
Maybe for some of the actions it might make sense, but not for everything.
Abusing confirmations for actions you take frequently (like save/load if you are savescumming) will just make your brain start automatically accepting any confirmation by reflex, making it useless.

[jayare5]

I have updated the issue to address only 1 thing at a time as suggested by natinusala, I will be re-posting the other issues later. (Including the one about confirmations).

For now this will be about the cursor movement speed.

[RobLoach]

Isn't this how RetroArch's XMB functions currently? When you press Down, it goes down one entry, and if you continue to hold, it'll gradually scroll faster.

[jayare5]

Isn't this how RetroArch's XMB functions currently? When you press Down, it goes down one entry, and if you continue to hold, it'll gradually scroll faster.

That's what I want to change, it shouldn't have an incremental speed. Most menus have a standard behavior of only having 1 speed to scroll fast.

In fact, the RetroArch's XMB does it correctly when you scroll to the menus on the sides! That one has a fixed fast speed, but not when you scroll vertically through menu entries..

Edit:
I made video comparisons, here you see the behavior of the PSP menu vs RetroArch:
https://youtu.be/ERrNIyHxWdM

And here you see RetroArch, within the Ozone menu, where you can see how the left and right menus behave differently, with the one on the right doing the thing I would like to have fixed, because it's too fast:
https://youtu.be/VlV3uohh-tg