There seems to be a race condition between a peripheral device
connecting to the bluetooth controller and it being ready to use.
It's very short and it depends upon the controller, some appear to
connect synchronously and block until the device is ready, others
report the device upon discovery but do not allow communication straight
away. I don't know which is the correct behaviour, or whether it depends
on the peripheral, controller or both. Anyway, Dolphin waits for a
remote to appear and immediately attempts to open the communication
channels, this can fail because the device isn't ready yet, delay, try
again, and it works.
There are other (unlikely) chances the device is busy at random
moments after this initial race condition so it loops around try to
reconnect.
This was inspired by an earlier patch, see here:
https://bugs.dolphin-emu.org/issues/5997#note-20
I can confirm that it works perfectly for me on a bluetooth
controller where otherwise it's impossible to connect (Dell 380
Bluetooth 4.0).
So, a FifoRecorder instance is instantiated as a file-local variable and
used as a singleton (ugh). Most users likely don't regularly use the
FIFO player/FIFO recorder, so this is kind of a substantial waste of
memory.
FifoRecorder's internal RAM and ExRAM vectors are 33554432 and 67108864
bytes respectively, which is around 100.66MB in total.
Just on the game list view on a clean build with nothing loaded, this
knocks debug build memory usage down from ~232.4MB to ~137.5MB, and
release build memory usage down from ~101MB to ~5.7MB.
The GameCube IPL sounds the same when using the free ROM as it does when
using the official ROM (and in Audacity, I couldn't visually distinguish
between the waveforms). It has a reference to an unimplemented function
at 0x8644 which seems to only be used in an inlined version of the CARD
ucode.
This allows the user to go through the Wii Menu first boot setup
screen when they launch the System Menu for the first time.
Most useful on a clean profile, after doing a full system update,
to configure settings like the console country.
This rewrites the SysConf code for several reasons:
* Modernising the SysConf class. The naming was entirely cleaned up.
constexpr for constants.
* Exposing less stuff in the header.
* Probably less efficient parsing and writing logic, but much simpler
to understand and use in my opinion. No more hardcoded offsets.
No more duplicated code for the initial SYSCONF generation.
* More flexibility. It is now possible to add and remove entries,
since we rebuild the file. This allows us to stop spamming
"section not found" panic alerts; we can now use and insert
default entries.
On a real Wii, the title list is not in any particular order. However,
because of how the flash filesystem works, titles such as 1-2 are
*never* in the first position. We must keep this behaviour, or some
versions of the System Menu may break.
Steven Newbury