Because the GC language setting cannot be set to Japanese, we
need a special condition for Japanese GC games. I accidentally
removed it in PR 7816, but here it is again in a new form.
We could do the same thing with Korean GC games if we want to
(which we couldn't do before PR 7816), but due to how spotty
GameTDB is with having Korean names for Korean GC releases,
things will be more consistent if we just use English for them.
We can't join a detached thread, so NetPlayIndex gets deleted before
the notification thread exits, creating a race condition. We switch to
using Common::Event because just sleeping leaves the UI hung on the
thread join for a few seconds.
Instead of selecting languages based on the user config at the time
of TitleDatabase creation and merging the different languages into one
map for GC and one map for Wii, have one map for each language, and
have the caller supply the language they want. This makes us not need
the IsGCTitle function, which is inaccurate for IDs that start with D.
The difference between Dolphin's game IDs and GameTDB's game IDs
is that GameTDB uses four characters for non-disc titles, whereas
Dolphin uses six characters for all titles.
This fixes:
- TitleDatabase considering Datel discs to be NHL Hitz 2002
- Gecko code downloading not working for discs with IDs starting with P
- Cover downloading mixing up discs with channels (e.g. Mario Kart Wii
and Mario Kart Channel) and making extra HTTP requests. (Android was
actually doing a better job at this than DolphinQt!)
The header of a Wii disc can be read from two places: The
unencrypted area at the beginning of the disc, or the beginning of
the game partition. The two copies are usually identical (except
for 0x60 and 0x61), but there are exceptions. For most of Dolphin's
history, we have been reading from the header inside the game
partition when getting metadata. This was however not the case
starting with 4.0-4901 and ending with 5.0-3762. This commit once
again makes Dolphin read metadata from the unencrypted header,
because of the following reasons that I recently was informed about:
- The "pink fish" disc has the game ID 410E01 in the unencrypted
header but the placeholder game ID RELSAB in the partition header.
- The revisions of some games differ between the two headers,
with the unencrypted one making more sense.
(See https://bugs.dolphin-emu.org/issues/11387)
For better or worse, this also means that sloppily hacked games where
only the game ID in the unencrypted header has been changed now will
use that modified game ID. And unlike with the partition header,
there is no signing or hashing that can tell us whether the
unencrypted header has been modified by someone other than Nintendo.
Since we don't have a way (AFAIK) to dynamically collect the list of
available art assets, we hardcode a list of gameids with available
artwork inside Dolphin. It's not great, but I don't think it's a
terrible solution either.
Art has to be manually uploaded to our Discord app configuration, and we
have a limit of ~150 assets, so most likely we'll limit ourselves to a
small set of popular games.
Techjar