how do i use the star icon?

[Aust20156]

i can use it here like this: ★ but in-game it doesn't work. and i tried every letter, number, and symbol. help?

[robertkirkman]

in-game chat in sm64ex-coop only supports a specific set of characters in order to limit possible user input codepaths to a reasonable number, and Unicode Character “★” (U+2605) is not among the supported characters. This behavior matches the Desktop version of the game.

[robertkirkman]

If you're talking about a star like this,

That's not a normal Unicode ★, it's actually a 0x7F, the ASCII/Unicode DEL character. I don't know why they picked it to be like that, but it's probably just because they placed its texture immediately to the right of the ~ symbol in the font bitmap.

You can already use that symbol in your name on Android or any other version of the game by copying and pasting the 0x7F that's placed here for you on the codepoints.net website into the coop_player_name field of the /storage/emulated/0/com.owokitty.sm64excoop/user/sm64config.txt file using the ACode app. Use the Hacker's Keyboard app to get reliable copy and paste on Android by using its Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V button combinations. Here's a tutorial video.

star.webm

[robertkirkman]

In version 36.1 the star character looks more or less identical to U+2605, but in version 37+ it has little eyes. To get that change you can wait for #19 .