Many visual novels were written for a desktop, and expect a mouse: small buttons, hover highlights, right-click for the game menu, a wheel for scrolling history. The Virtual Mouse turns the screen into a trackpad that drives an on-screen pointer, and the game receives it as real mouse input.

Starts every game with pointer mode already active. You can also turn it on and off at any time during a game — see Turning it on during a game.

Drag anywhere on the screen to move the pointer. The surface is invisible: a faint cloud of dots appears around your finger only while you are touching it.

Three ways, all doing the same thing:

• The Virtual Mouse button below the volume control in the game overlay. It turns green while pointer mode is active.
• The quick menu centre button, if you set it to Virtual Mouse. See Quick Menu Overlay.
• The in-game Virtual Mouse settings window, from the overlay’s settings window.

How far the pointer travels for a given finger movement. Higher crosses the screen faster; lower is easier to aim precisely.

How long to hold still before a drag begins. A short hold arms the left button, then dragging moves with the button held — the way you would drag a slider with a real mouse. Raise it if ordinary taps are being mistaken for drags; lower it if arming a drag feels sluggish.

A small tick when the drag arms, and on clicks. This also covers the scroll wheel’s per-notch feedback.

A wheel you can spin to scroll, useful for history and preference screens that expect a real mouse wheel. It works independently of the pointer — you can leave the wheel on without ever turning the Virtual Mouse on.

Shows the scroll wheel during gameplay.

Drag either grip — the dotted panels at the top and bottom — to reposition the wheel. Dragging the ridged band in the middle scrolls instead of moving it.

How much the wheel turns for a given finger movement.

Transparency of the wheel while you are not touching it.

• Game Overlay Settings — Position and opacity of the overlay buttons.
• Quick Menu Overlay — Put the Virtual Mouse toggle on the quick menu.
• Gestures — Swipe gestures, which continue to work as normal.