Refactors the PatchAllowlistTest to streamline the experience for developers. Instead of a textual description of what needs to change in ApprovedInis.json for RetroAchievements compatibility, the test will now generate a replacement file and instruct the coder where to copy it in their local branch, and what to update APPROVED_LIST_HASH to. The result should be easier and more instructive for developers to make changes, while still maintaining that allowed codes cannot be added or modified without recompiling Dolphin.
As ApprovedInis.json no longer needs to be user-readable for this process, it no longer contains titles or pretty formatting and as such is updated in this commit, hash included.
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time exhibits screen tearing on FMVs in Dolphin. Tested the setting (suggested by Amphitryon) on PC and Android and can confirm the tearing previously seen is gone with EarlyXFBOutput disabled.
Update several INI GameSettings for Blue Tongue Entertainment games
Add comments & more Nick games fixes
Adds comments to all FMV fixes and adds even more fixes for Nick games
The game sets up a fifo breakpoint callback that just writes a flag to
memory. The hang occurs right after calling GXEnableBreakPt(). It is a
busy loop that repeatedly compares the same register without reloading
it from memory. I guess the developers forgot to make the variable
atomic and never noticed because on hardware the breakpoint is hit
immediately so the flag is already set when it is loaded for the first
(and only) time. This patch grows the loop by one instruction to include
the flag load in the loop.
Found via `codespell -q 3 -S "./Externals,./Data/Sys/wiitdb-??.txt,*.po,*.pot" -L andf,asnd,bootup,brocken,bufferin,clen,collet,datas,delt,diety,extint,fpr,inout,inport,interm,nd,nin,ontop,pixelx,re-use,re-used,sav,stateman,strat,transer,wil`
As the PS2 version is the only one with proper 16:9 widescreen, this cheat brings widescreen to the Gamecube version. This cheat has been tested on the NTSC version, but is stated to be region free.
Adding a community-requested list of Gecko and Action Replay codes to the allowlist. Many of these codes were from the wiki and are being added to Dolphin's repo for the first time.
To my knowledge, all of the GameCube versions of *Metroid Prime* and *Metroid Prime 2: [Dark] Echoes* only support 4:3, not 16:9 .
Currently, Dolphin's widescreen heuristic will fail to detect this and will erratically switch between 4:3 and 16:9 when Aspect Ratio is set to Auto.
These changes prevent the erratic aspect ratio switching by manually declaring that the game is solely 4:3.
The primary focus of this PR is the Eternal Darkness patch which fixes hanging at startup, which prior to this fix makes Eternal Darkness unplayable in hardcore. The MHTri patch was added as well simply because it could be.
The game calls GXSetDrawDone and then switches the GP fifo without first
waiting for the draw done interrupt to arrive. Before
e96960e2a6, Dolphin would not execute the
draw done command and potentially also skip other commands in the old GP
fifo. Since that commit, Dolphin executes the remaining commands on the
old GP fifo just before disabling reads for switching, but because
PixelEngineManager::RaiseEvent() enforces a minimum delay of 500 cycles
for the draw done interrupt, it arrives after the game has switched to
the new GP fifo which seems to trigger the deadlock.
This patch replaces the call to GXSetDrawDone by a call to GXDrawDone
which does the same but also waits for the interrupt.
Removes the EFBAccessEnable=false explicit game overrides for:
GT6 (Terminator 3: The Redemption)
GXB (SSX3) [deleted - no other configuration]
RTH (Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam)
SNC (SONIC COLOURS) [deleted - no other configuration]
Adjusts the Texture Cache settings/slider to 512 samples which equates
to the 'middle' option in the UI.
If using the 'Safe' Texture Cache Accuracy mode, the left screen will only render bloom in 2P modes.
If using the 'Fast' Texture Cache Accuracy mode, the Intro Movie will
drop frames near the end when the "Shadow the Hedgehog" game title
letters appear. This mode also can result in artifacts/bleed from bloom
effects in some situations.
`EFBEmulateFormatChanges = True` properly emulates the blur in the pause screen.
`ImmediateXFBEnable = False` to prevent epilepsy-inducing FMVs and main menu.
`EFBEmulateFormatChanges = True` properly emulates the blur in the pause screen.
`ImmediateXFBEnable = False` to prevent epilepsy-inducing FMVs and main menu.
The use of any anti-aliasing will cause graphical corruption, which occurs on the ground.
MaxAnisotropy is supposed to be for [Video_Enhancements], but also it doesn't cause any of the issues in game so it is being removed rather than set under the correct heading.
Added a comment on why these values are set.
These codes are actually Gecko codes so setting that correctly.
There were errors which pop up when running this game as the comments for AR codes need to be set with hash(#) instead of asterisk(*). I replaced those anyways.
Removed the url in the comment since it's inaccessible and not on wayback machine either.
Also corrected the GameID, the wrong one is listed.
The wrong filename was used so the settings weren't being applied.
The graphical issues reported were from enhancements that create graphical issues.
EFBToTextureEnable solves some graphical issues but those issues appear for only a few frames, the bulk of the game does not benefit while the setting while it is very sore on performance.
Arbitrary Mipmap Detection doesn't work when GPU Texture Decoding is
enabled, so disable GPU Texture Decoding for games where the .ini
enables Arbitrary Mipmap Detection.
Co-authored-by: jeremyie <73066289+McAchi@users.noreply.github.com>
These patches were added in bde9a459cd
and enabled by default in 36ecfdd6b5.
They allowed the game to run in Dolphin but disabled dynamic shadows.
The game adds 4 to the start address of otherwise valid display lists
for no obvious reason. Now that Dolphin forces 32-byte alignment these
patches are no longer needed.
