This was breaking Metroid Prime 2: Echoes’s scanner in some rooms, such
as the one in https://fifoci.dolphin-emu.org/dff/mp2-scanner/
It was found on Ivy Bridge on Mesa, the alpha value read back from the
EFB was off-by-4 in multiple objects, which was a conversion error
because int4() is equivalent to floor() and the value wasn’t always
higher.
The casts to u32* are technically undefined behavior. The u8* cast is
left, as char/unsigned char is exempted from this rule to allow for
bvtewise inspection of objects (and this is what s8/u8 are typedefs of
on platforms we support).
Writing to 0x60 does actually not "init exception[s]" or anything like
that. Not at all. Rather, it *breaks* a check in Nintendo's SDK, which
makes it fail to realise that the hook hasn't been set up.
This prevents the SDK initialisation routines from writing the rest of
the hook instructions (total: 0x20 bytes), which in turn causes an
anti-piracy check to fail in some Ubisoft games (including Tintin).
Dolphin can be really amazing sometimes.
No clue where people got the 0 value from, or why it's labelled as
"time". As far as I can tell, it is always set to 0xffffffff by
official NAND titles, including the system menu.
It's not specific to WADs. The BS2 emulation boot code will also need
to update the state file.
Move the struct to Boot and add a helper function that will handle
reading + computing the checksum + writing the state file.
Sentret_C posted this comment on Transifex recently:
"What Dolphin refers to as "Table View" and "List View" are
similar to "List View" and "Grid View" in Steam, and I think
the Steam names describe them better."
I agree with that, so here's a commit that changes the names.
This is supposed to get efb2tex to the same texture as efb2ram, by applying the related efb copies as updates after each other, in the order of their creation.
Wii.Widescreen is a setting that cannot be changed on the fly after
emulation has started, so anything booted after the initial title
will have an unexpected aspect ratio.
We can just set Video_Settings.AspectRatio instead, which *can* be live
changed, since it doesn't involve messing with the SYSCONF at any time.
This is also much closer to the behaviour of the Wii U, which
configures the DMCU to force 4:3 transparently, instead of doing it the
intrusive way (touching the SYSCONF).
Léo Lam