This feature allows overriding the frequency of the Vertical Blank Interrupt. For many games, this means that their gameplay speed will change without affecting audio, which would be useful by itself (e.g. grinding in RPGs).
However, there are games that use delta time for their game logic, which allows them to be played at >60 FPS at the same gameplay speed!
Some games aren't dynamic though, and require a patch to adjust their game speed variable.
This lets you use PS3 Rock Band controllers with Wii Rock Band and
Guitar Hero games.
A normal user will probably never have any reason to disable this
behavior, but I figured maybe there's some person out there who would
like to disable it. (For instance, I know there's a mod for RB3 that's
trying to implement the same kind of cross-console controller
compatibility, and that can only be tested if the behavior I'm adding is
disabled.) So the behavior is controlled by an INI-only setting.
Found via `codespell -q 3 -S "./Externals,./Data/Sys/wiitdb-??.txt,*.po,*.pot" -L andf,asnd,bootup,bufferin,clen,collet,datas,delt,fpr,inout,inport,interm,pixelx,re-use,re-used,sav,stateman,strat,wil`
Clamp overlays to the render window (with some padding), reset their
positions when the render window changes sizes, and add a setting to
enable moving the overlays (off by default, .ini only for now).
This adds the option to configure real Wiimotes by specifying their Bluetooth addresses in
the configuration file. This allows off-brand Wiimotes to work without using the
Bluetooth Passthrough option, if you know their Bluetooth addresses beforehand.
Despite correctly setting the LAP to `0x9e8b00` in `WiimoteScannerLinux::FindWiimotes`
while scanning, which is indeed enough to make off-brand / knock-off Wiimotes respond to a
Bluetooth Inquiry, some (several? all?) bluetooth adapters seem to override and ignore
this given LAP value when performing the Inquiry, and actually use the `0x9e8b33` value as
if a null pointer have been given to `hci_inquiry`, as inspection of USB/Bluetooth packets
by Wireshark indicate. Off-brand Wiimotes don't respond to inquiries with this LAP.
If one happens to know the Bluetooth address of their Wiimote (for example, by checking
`BluetoothPassthrough.LinkKeys` after using Bluetooth Passthrough, or other means such as
directly using `libusb` to force the adapter to use the correct LAP in the Inquiry), then
it's enough to add those addresses to the vector of found Wiimotes.
Since this a niche use case and I only happen to know and have tested in Linux, this
change only affects the `WiimoteScannerLinux` backend. It's likely that it could be added
to other backends, but I'm unfamiliar with these.
If no addresses are given or this config section does not exist, behavior is completely
unchanged.
In NandPaths.cpp, the `std::initializer_list<char>` of illegal characters has been turned into a `char[]` (similar to the one in GameList.cpp).
The reverse iteration in ResourcePack.cpp seemed to provide no benefits, and doing without it it seemed to have no ill effects.
Now that patches and codes are enabled on a case by case basis, remove patcher code blocking codes entirely in hardcore mode, and reword the warning to be more accurate.
Makes Graphics -> Hacks -> Skip EFB Access from CPU enabled by default. Some GPU drivers stall when EFB access occurs in games where EFB is not used. Most games that require this setting set to 'true' already have this defined in their game inis.
This lets us reduce the number of USE_RETRO_ACHIEVEMENTS ifdefs in the
code base, reducing visual clutter. In particular, needing an ifdef for
each call to IsHardcodeModeActive was annoying to me. This also reduces
the risk that someone writes code that accidentally fails to compile
with USE_RETRO_ACHIEVEMENTS disabled.
We could cut down on ifdefs even further by making HardcodeWarningWidget
always exist, but that would result in non-trivial code ending up in the
binary even with USE_RETRO_ACHIEVEMENTS disabled, so I'm leaving it out
of this PR. It's not a lot of code though, so I might end up revisiting
it at some point.
Was informed by the RetroAchievements team that this isn't an option in most emulators, and as the next commits will be to enable default icons, there will always be something to display.
Bugfix for hardcore-disabled items being disabled when hardcore was true but achievement integration was false, which should mean hardcore is effectively disabled. Now everything checks the IsHardcoreModeActive method in AchievementManager which processes the setting AND the game state to determine if hardcore mode is actually active.
Spectator Mode is a new mode added by rc_client that allows for achievement and leaderboard functionality, but does not submit this data to the site, partially allowing for offline achievements. It effectively replaces the former settings for disabling achievements, leaderboards, and RP, which are now always active internally as long as the client is active.
The client can take care of itself and handle its own hardcore status when it toggles, so I can tell the settings widget to contact the manager directly to set it.
Also, gradually reorganizing the settings dialog over the next handful of commits.
This implements the GameCube modem adapter. This implementation is stable but not perfect; it drops frames if the receive FIFO length is exceeded. This is probably due to the unimplemented interrupt mentioned in the comments. If the tapserver end of the connection is aware of this limitation, it's easily circumvented by lowering the MTU of the link, but ideally this wouldn't be necessary.
This has been tested with a couple of different versions of Phantasy Star Online, including Episodes 1 & 2 Trial Edition. The Trial Edition is the only version of the game that supports the Modem Adapter and not the Broadband Adapter, which is what made this commit necessary in the first place.
This expands the tapserver BBA interface to be available on all platforms. tapserver itself is still macOS-only, but newserv (the PSO server) is not, and it can directly accept local and remote tapserver connections as well. This makes the tapserver interface potentially useful on all platforms.
Adds a setting field under the hood to retain which folder the player last saved/loaded a state to/from, so that the dialog box to select a state to save/load reopens at that folder.
The Host URL setting in the RetroAchievements config will, if set, be used as the host URL for all server requests for achievements. This allows for an easy switch to the RetroAchievements staging server for testing.
