The logic didn't account for the case where a player leaves, so the
host would be left in a dangling state where the UI is disabled but the
game won't start, requiring a full restart of Dolphin to fix.
This is an extension of host input authority that allows switching the
host (who has zero latency) on the fly, at the further expense of
everyone else's latency. This is useful for turn-based games where the
latency of players not on their turn doesn't matter.
To become the so-called golfer, the player simply presses a hotkey.
When the host is the golfer, latency is identical to normal host input
authority.
This eliminates the clutter of checkboxes at the bottom of the window.
A QAction within a QMenu cannot have a tooltip however, so they have
been removed and the options will be documented on the wiki.
This makes it possible to gracefully force stop emulation rather than
having to kill Dolphin completely when NetPlay deadlocks in the input
loop. Without a graceful stop, Wii saves do not get flushed to the main
NAND, and are left in limbo in the temporary NAND.
This sends arbitrary packets in chunks to be reassembled at the other
end, allowing large data transfers to be speed-limited and interleaved
with other packets being sent. It also enables tracking the progress of
large data transfers.
Its usage was inconsistent, confusing, and buggy, so I opted to just
remove it entirely. It has been replaced with PadIndex for the
appropriate instances (mainly networking), and inappropriate usages
(where it was really just a player ID) have been replaced with the
PlayerId type. The definition of "no mapping" has been changed from -1
to 0 to match the defintion of "no player", as -1 (255 unsigned) is
actually a valid player ID.
The bugs never manifested because it only occurs with a full lobby of
255 players, at which point the last player's ID collides with the "no
mapping" definition and some undefined behavior occurs. Nevertheless, I
thought it best to fix it anyways as the usage of PadMapping was
confusing.
The interface address isn't particularly useful in most circumstances
(playing over internet), and we have a way to get the external IP now,
so displaying it in the dialog is useful.
Techjar