Before, Settings::SetDebugModeEnabled was used; this calls SetBaseOrCurrent() which will usually permanently change the base configuration setting for the debugger to true. Thus, the debugger would remain active even if the --debugger command line option was removed. Now, it remains active only for the current run, like other command-line options.
Note that SetBaseOrCurrent is also used by the "Show Debugging UI" option under Options -> Interface; this means that if the debugger is turned off (or off and then back on) by the user while --debugger is specified, this will be reset to whatever the base configuration had when Dolphin is closed and reopened. This behavior is consistent with the rest of the UI.
To my understanding, the --debugger option is something from 5.0 stable/DolphinWx where there was no way to toggle the debug UI in the settings (and the command-line option was the only way of enabling it). It's less useful nowadays.
LoadGameByFilenameAsync sets up a volume reader and hashes the volume, then uses that hash to make the three consecutive API requests to resolve hash, start session and load game data.
CloseGame resets the m_is_game_loaded flag, wipes the queue, and destroys all the game data responses.
FetchGameData is the big one - this retrieves the logic for all the achievements, leaderboards, and rich presence, and all the relevant metadata for the game.
Added a call to the RetroAchievements Start Session API to AchievementManager. This is primarily for client-side activation, so it doesn't return much of value, aside from its success/error information, but I'm storing the return structure in case this changes in the future.
Added the ResolveHash method to AchievementManager. This is a blocking function to send a hash string to the RetroAchievements server to verify it and get a game ID back.
This was previously copying each pair out of the vector returned by
GetInterfaceListInternal() when we just need to emplace the first entry
of each pair.
See https://bugs.dolphin-emu.org/issues/13232; this was introduced in 7dde0c3c31. Apparently, providing a parent for a widget that is not visible makes your new widget visible when the parent is later made visible, in addition to managing the deletion of the widget; the documentation does not specify this (only that if the parent is visible you need to explicitly show it).
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