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#45

Design improvements

Do you have interest in someone else improve the design and implement in the CSS? If you do, I can make some proposals and bring it to discuss.

#57

Open source GBA BIOS

Just wondering if there are any reasons why the open source GBA bios isn't being included with Iodine by default ? Would be great if a BIOS isn't specified that it defaults to and loads the open ...

  • Opened by fOmey Oct 16, 2017
#35

Align speech initialization

Right now it does its own initialization on its own. It should be called from the load function we currently use. In addition, we should fix up and add the missing "use strict".

  • Opened by taisel Jul 21, 2016
#33

Update ReadMe

- Needs updated contributors section - Probably don't need screenshots - Be more descriptive - Add in a "currently a code golfing experiment / still in alpha or beta" message. I mean, ...

  • Opened by taisel Jul 8, 2016
#37

Default controls?

Cannot seem to find the default buttons anywhere. Probably a simple answer im just very new to programming in general.

#59

Electron release

#7

Compatibility for Firefox Nightly

API changed the other day, so add a shim for combat between both versions.

  • Opened by taisel Dec 3, 2015
#6

Merge pull request #1 from taisel/master

Merge

  • Opened by Beagon Nov 30, 2015
#5

xaudiojs update

  • Opened by taisel Nov 27, 2015