Has anyone coded a hack to fix this in a developer image?

Since the behavior is governed by the player code (not the kernel), and the player is not open-source (like the kernel is), it would be difficult to hack.

That's not to say it can't be done, it's just that someone would have to reverse-engineer the behavior at the machine code level and perform the hack in binary. I'm sure it's not beyond the talents of some of the folks on this board, but I dunno if those folks would be willing to waste that kind of time on something so difficult.

Remember that one button press gets you back to the visuals, it's not that big of a deal, not worth all that effort.

___________
Tony Fabris