Chess Titans

Chess Titans
Developer: Oberon Games Publisher: Microsoft Platform: Windows Released internationally: January 30, 2007 This game has debugging material.

One of the new games included with Windows Vista and 7.

Debug Menu

To do: See if the Full Speed Render does anything

As with most other games shipped with Vista and 7, it has an internal g_debugEnabled variable.

The options included in this menu are:

• Rotate Board - Rotates the board to the other side in the 3D view, but doesn't do anything in the 2D view.
• Self Play - View a game played by two computer players. If a game already began, the game will then start a new one.
• Toggle Top Down View - Goes to the top-down 2D view, but going back to the 3D view will cause the graphic setting to drop to the lowest-quality 3D setting.
• Toggle Full Speed Render - Supposedly would make the game run fast on slower computers

XInput Support

An interesting feature that isn't documented anywhere (Help Menu-wise) is XInput (gamepad) support – if the game detects an Xbox 360 controller plugged into a USB port, the P1 corner on the controller will light up, signifying the controller can be used. Possibly undocumented because Microsoft thought people were too used to the traditional controls, and a gamepad would be odd to use. It's a neat little feature, nonetheless.

Controls

Button	Effect
Left analog stick/D-pad/Shoulder Buttons/Triggers	Moves the cursor. Oddly, they can also be used to navigate the menu bar.
B/Back	Undoes the previous move.
A/X	Selects the square the cursor is on. Moving the cursor onto a piece and pressing A/X selects it. Pressing A/X on one of the highlighted squares moves the piece there.
Y/Start	Opens the Game Menu.