MKDD Tint Issue RPI5

TPR

Question for all of you who know this stuff better than I do....

Do we ever think that Dolphin will have the ability to auto-detect a controller like Aethersx2 or retroarch does?

I have an XBOX 360, PS2, and an 8Bitdo controller that I like to swap between depending on the game and every time I swap on Dolphin I have to go into the backend and re-configure or at least tell the emulator what controller I currently have plugged in.

It just gets annoying to have to load up the backend every time I want to load a game. (I load games from ES, not from Dolphin. It's just a personal preference.)

Is there any way to have Dolphin auto-detect a controller or is it just not a feature of that core?

gvx64

@TPR I am really glad that it worked. Let me know if you need any other assistance for getting your hotkeys configured properly.

I don't know how to make dolphin auto-detect gamepads but I think that it would be very doable for you to setup multiple emulator cores in ES that each point to different configuration directories where each config directory contains a config file that defaults to a different gamepad (e.g. dolphin-rpi-XBOX, dolphin-rpi-PS2 and dolphin-rpi-8Bitdo cores). You then wouldn't have to manually change anything, just select the core that you want to use depending on the gamepad that you are using.

The one challenge with this method is that you would have different save files for each core but if you are willing to try creating symbolic links I think that it might work where you would be able to share save files between the three emulator cores.

It's going to involve some Linux shell commands, but if you are interested in giving it a try I can post some instructions on how to do this over the next couple of days when I have time.

retropieuser555

@TPR regarding automapping you can attempt my script but I can't test it with many controllers as I only own 8bitdo ones so YMMV

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/pull/3969

Although if you make a profile for your controller how you like it, the script will realise it exists and just use that one, rather than overwriting it, so you could set all your controllers up as profiles then whichever you have connected would be used for that session, similar to mupen64plus

DTEAM

@TPR

Hi @TPR , are you able to save?

TPR

@retropieuser555 said in MKDD Tint Issue RPI5:

@TPR regarding automapping you can attempt my script but I can't test it with many controllers as I only own 8bitdo ones so YMMV

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/pull/3969

Although if you make a profile for your controller how you like it, the script will realise it exists and just use that one, rather than overwriting it, so you could set all your controllers up as profiles then whichever you have connected would be used for that session, similar to mupen64plus

Ooh! This is very interesting! I will give this a try this weekend! Where do I need to put that dolphin.sh file to make it work?

TPR

@DTEAM Save what?

DTEAM

@TPR

To save your games with hotkeys (save and load options) and also inside the game with the slot A or B.

DTEAM

@TPR

Now it's ok, I had a permission issue with the main folder DolphinConfig5.0 and the script. I created the main folder before the instalation with no restriction and now it works fine. I don't know why the script did that.

TPR

@DTEAM said in MKDD Tint Issue RPI5:

@TPR

Now it's ok, I had a permission issue with the main folder DolphinConfig5.0 and the script. I created the main folder before the instalation with no restriction and now it works fine. I don't know why the script did that.

Oh. Cool. Good to know. I got distracted so I wasn't able to test that.

gvx64

I just wanted to advise that I have updated the dolphin-rpi build to correct a segmentation fault that occurs when opening Wii .rvz files. I also implemented a speedhack for the Last Story (https://github.com/mimimi085181/dolphin) that allows EFBToTextureEnable to be turned on without causing rendering issues and which should approximately double the framerate.

@DTEAM I will try to update the install script so that it grants full permissions to the save and config folders during install.

retropieuser555

@gvx64 is the speedhack Last Story specific? Or works on other titles as well?

gvx64

@retropieuser555 Right now, it's Last Story-specific. I hardcoded the hack in a conditional statement that looks for the presence of "SLS" in the game id (The Last Story's game id).

The hack fixes the invisible clothing problem when the EFBToTextureEnable setting is turned on when playing the Last Story where all you can see are floating heads of characters (the speedup comes from being able to leave EFBToTextureEnable turned on without having rendering problems). Let me know if you come across other games that have graphical glitches due to EFBToTextureEnable = true. If you see this problem come up in other games, and it turns out that this hack can fix it, I can create a more general solution such as an option for the game-specific ini file that can activate the hack.

TPR

@retropieuser555 said in MKDD Tint Issue RPI5:

@TPR regarding automapping you can attempt my script but I can't test it with many controllers as I only own 8bitdo ones so YMMV

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/pull/3969

Although if you make a profile for your controller how you like it, the script will realise it exists and just use that one, rather than overwriting it, so you could set all your controllers up as profiles then whichever you have connected would be used for that session, similar to mupen64plus

I'm just finally getting back around to this now. Where do I need to put that dolphin.sh at and how do I make this work? I dropped it into:
RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/emulators/dolphin/dolphin.sh

But I don't see where this tool shows up in my RetroPie-Setup.

Also, which one of these commits should I be using?
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/pull/3969/commits

TPR

@retropieuser555 said in MKDD Tint Issue RPI5:

@TPR regarding automapping you can attempt my script but I can't test it with many controllers as I only own 8bitdo ones so YMMV

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/pull/3969

Although if you make a profile for your controller how you like it, the script will realise it exists and just use that one, rather than overwriting it, so you could set all your controllers up as profiles then whichever you have connected would be used for that session, similar to mupen64plus

OK so update... I grabbed all three of those dolphin.sh files and put them in the appropriate folders and then I re-installed dolphin and now every time I load, I get the following error:

TPR

@retropieuser555 Any ideas what I might be doing wrong here?

gvx64

So I finally bought Double Dash because I wanted to try it out on my Pi4 using dolphin-rpi. At first the game speed was really poor (~60% fullspeed). That said, I found this hack that gets Double Dash playing at fullspeed by cutting the framerate from 60fps to 30 and activating the game's internal frameskipping:

I added the following commands to the GM4.ini file in ~/DolphinConfig5.0/GameSettings:

[Core]
EnableCheats = True

[ActionReplay_Enabled]
$Force 30FPS
[ActionReplay]
$Force 30FPS
0448C388 00000002

(source: https://www.reddit.com/r/gpdxd/comments/flq57f/near_fullspeed_double_dash_with_30fps_code/)

Note that my Pi4 is overclocked 2350MHz/940MHz. The games runs a bit choppy at around 23-28fps but the game speed seems to basically be fullspeed. It's very playable on the Pi4 with this hack.

I am not sure how helpful this hack will be for Pi5 users at is sounds like Double Dash runs at fullspeed regardless and I am not sure if this hack will help with multiplayer. That said, I mainly wanted to share this for any Pi4 users out there. It definitely made a huge difference for me playing this game.