Click a key or a gamepad button, then press the new one. Backspace clears it, Esc cancels.

The gamepad's left stick moves too

In a match, F3 turns the music on or off and F4 the sound effects.

Language Performance mode

For a slow computer or phone: the match draws less. Smooth motion, the side scenery, the blurred copy beside the game and the screen filters stay off while it is on; your choices for them come back when you turn it off.

Arena zoom OffThe whole arena1.25×1.5×1.75×2×

The whole arena: the arena to its edges, as wide as the screen, so the characters show bigger with all of it in view. 1.25× to 2×: closer still, the view following your character (the whole screen again when you are out of the round). Best on a phone; on a phone or tablet, the zoom button in the match changes it too.

Top bar, clock and items Below the arenaOver the arena's edgesHidden

With the zoom on. Below the arena: an upright phone shows them in the space under it, and nothing covers the arena (lying down, they go over its edges). Over the edges: where the game has them; the item panel covers a little of the arena's right side. Hidden: only the arena; the messages still show.

Screen filter

ClassicThe game's picture enlarged by the browser, a little soft. As it has always looked. Sharp pixelsEvery pixel crisp and square at any window size. Smooth (xBR)The edges of the pixel art rounded off, like a high-resolution redraw. CRTScanlines like an old tube TV. Best on big or high-resolution screens.

Classic explosions

Every bomb's fire in the game's own colours, whatever bomb skin its player has.

Classic bombs

Every bomb in the game's own look, whatever bomb skin its player has, yours too. Only your screen changes: the others still see the skins.

Side scenery

On a wide screen, the map's scenery carries on beside the field instead of a blurred copy of the game. Only on the maps that have it so far.

Smooth motion

The game moves 50 times a second. On a screen that refreshes 60 times a second or more, the players and bombs glide between those moves instead of stepping. Off: 50 frames a second, as the game has always drawn.

Show FPS

In a match, the frames drawn each second and how long one takes, in the top left corner. F2 shows or hides it during a match.

The buttons on the screen of a phone or tablet in a match.

Stick

Fixed in placeIt stays in its place. Put your thumb on it and slide toward where you want to go. Follows your thumbTouch anywhere on its side of the screen: it comes under your thumb and follows it.

To see the characters bigger, use Arena zoom in Display.