CwCheat Support

[dlanor]

(09-06-2013 11:09 AM)makotech222 Wrote:  The folder on my phone is "Cheats" so try that first. If you can, also try lower-case just to make sure. In the code, it says it should be lowercase.

I've now already tested it with "cheats" on my Ouya, and this works fine.
(I've played FF3 for a few hours with Gil and Exp gain multipliers that definitely work.)

I'm surprised to hear that "Cheats" also works, since Android is based on Linux, for which character case should always be significant. But perhaps some of the file access libs do their own 'uncasing' for compatibility reasons...

But that might not work the same on every Android platform, which could explain the crashing JackyMacky reported after trying it with a "Cheats" folder.

Just to make sure of the case for an Ouya I'll try renaming that folder...
----- some tests later -----
Yes, it does work fine with my original "cheats" folder renamed to "Cheats".

I wonder if this 'uncasing' is done in the libs of the app or those of the Android implementation. Since Linux is defined as always case sensitive, I assume it has to be done in some software layer above the Linux core.

----- Some googling later (a day later) -----

The answer to the 'casing' riddle was amusingly simple.
I really should have thought of this myself, without googling for it.
It's simply the case insensitivity of the FAT32 file system that does it...

Linux and Android are both case sensitive, but the FAT32 file system device drivers they use are not.

Best regards: dlanor