Arrow Keys not working In Browser

BlakeStoned · Post by **BlakeStoned** » Wed Oct 04, 2023 3:08 pm

Trying to play BoloBall in browser but the game won't recognize the arrow keys. Have tried in two different browsers (Samsung and chrome), both mobile but have physical keyboard connected and other keys recognized. Thoughts?

Game won't open on my mobile DosBox either but that's a different issue.

Noaboss · Post by **Noaboss** » Thu Oct 05, 2023 1:58 am

BlakeStoned wrote: ↑ Trying to play BoloBall in browser but the game won't recognize the arrow keys. Have tried in two different browsers (Samsung and chrome), both mobile but have physical keyboard connected and other keys recognized. Thoughts?

Game won't open on my mobile DosBox either but that's a different issue.

Have you checked to see if you have number lock on, that may be the cause

Post by **MrFlibble** » Thu Oct 05, 2023 5:06 am

BlakeStoned wrote: ↑ Trying to play BoloBall in browser but the game won't recognize the arrow keys.

To clarify, are you trying to play from this page?

BlakeStoned · Post by **BlakeStoned** » Thu Oct 05, 2023 8:17 am

Noaboss wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2023 1:58 am
BlakeStoned wrote: ↑ Trying to play BoloBall in browser but the game won't recognize the arrow keys. Have tried in two different browsers (Samsung and chrome), both mobile but have physical keyboard connected and other keys recognized. Thoughts?

Game won't open on my mobile DosBox either but that's a different issue.
Have you checked to see if you have number lock on, that may be the cause

Numlock no effect

BlakeStoned · Post by **BlakeStoned** » Thu Oct 05, 2023 8:19 am

MrFlibble wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2023 5:06 am
BlakeStoned wrote: ↑ Trying to play BoloBall in browser but the game won't recognize the arrow keys.
To clarify, are you trying to play from dosgames.com?

Yes playing from that page in browser. Otherwise able to navigate the game controls, just the arrows no go.

BlakeStoned · Post by **BlakeStoned** » Thu Oct 05, 2023 8:24 am

Before it's asked, I've confirmed the arrow keys otherwise work in my browser, to scroll this page for example. I know this doesn't have a reasonable solution, I guess just curious if it's a global problem with that game considering it's also the only one I can get to run when downloading as well

Post by **MrFlibble** » Thu Oct 05, 2023 8:47 am

BlakeStoned wrote: ↑ Yes playing from that page in browser. Otherwise able to navigate the game controls, just the arrows no go.

I just tried playing Bolo Ball from dosgames.com, and I cannot replicate your problem, the arrow keys work fine.

Have you tried any other games from the same site, do the keys work when playing in browser?

What OS do you have? Win/Mac/Linux/other?

karalinda · Post by **karalinda** » Tue Oct 17, 2023 7:40 am

One of the most common reasons you may not use the arrow keys is you've turned on the scroll lock. Look for the scroll lock button on your keyboard to see if you've enabled it. The button usually lights up. Press this button to disable it.which looks like a circular arrow. In Firefox, the refresh button is located in the top left corner of the browser window, and looks like a circular arrow.These two arrows navigate the browser back (the left arrow) to a previously viewed webpage or forward (the right arrow) to more currently viewed webpages. These buttons can be pushed more than once to cause the browser to go back or forward further to web pages rendered in a browser session's history.