For unknown reasons, a Gecko Code on the Wiki for Rayman Arena that was
meant to help with widescreen patches. This doesn't actually change
anything about the game unless you enable Dolphin's built-in widescreen
hack, where it will cause enemies and whatnot to render on the edges of
the screen. This is because it patches out the culling function in the
game, which coincidentally is also the cause of the hang in Dolphin.
New dolphin-tool command: "header"
-b / --block_size
-c / --compression
-l / --compression_level
Informative RVZ/WIA header2 value "compression_level" is now a s32 instead of a u32, because negative compression is a thing.
Speaking of, it is now possible to use negative compression levels in dolphin-tool's convert command (not the GUI, though).
Turns out there's some Freeloader disc for the GC that triggers this
despite being a good dump. This warning is mostly intended to catch
Wii games that have been truncated at the 4.00 GiB or 4.38 GiB mark
anyway, and if someone does have a Datel dump that has been truncated,
they'll still get the "unusual size" warning.
According to the documentation, getActionIndex should only be
used with ACTION_POINTER_DOWN and ACTION_POINTER_UP. We've had a
few crashes reported in the Play Console regarding invalid pointer
indices for getY, and I'm hoping this will help with that.
If libusb fails to initialize, an assertion fails, but if that happens before the main window is created, then Dolphin just dies. Now, the panic alert is properly shown and the user can ignore it.
These messages hid other, more important, ones often. I have left AttemptMaxTimesWithExponentialDelay and GetSysDirectory/SetSysDirectory as info, since those are called infrequently and can be useful to the end-user.
This message would be logged, usually multiple times, for EVERY. SINGLE. PIXEL. That's pretty much useless and just makes the log unreadable. Plus, the current support (which acts as RGB8) is close enough that for end-user purposes, it's fine. I don't think the hardware backends support RGB565_Z16 and its antialiasing functionality correctly either, but they don't have similar logspam.
With "Store EFB Copies to Texture Only" set to True (the default setting), areas of Excite Truck appear darker than on console. For example, in Sylvan Glen under the Bronze cup, all of the trees appear very dark, nearly black. On console, this does not occur.
Start of the race on Dolphin: https://youtu.be/KjJ-55lwFkE?t=817
Start of the race on Console: https://youtu.be/0W9blwA8AG4?t=699
Setting EFBToTextureEnable = False fixes this issue and does not appear to introduce any performance impacts, so I am recommending that this be disabled by default for this game.
Admiral H. Curtiss