Was informed by the RetroAchievements team that this isn't an option in most emulators, and as the next commits will be to enable default icons, there will always be something to display.
Bugfix for hardcore-disabled items being disabled when hardcore was true but achievement integration was false, which should mean hardcore is effectively disabled. Now everything checks the IsHardcoreModeActive method in AchievementManager which processes the setting AND the game state to determine if hardcore mode is actually active.
Spectator Mode is a new mode added by rc_client that allows for achievement and leaderboard functionality, but does not submit this data to the site, partially allowing for offline achievements. It effectively replaces the former settings for disabling achievements, leaderboards, and RP, which are now always active internally as long as the client is active.
The client can take care of itself and handle its own hardcore status when it toggles, so I can tell the settings widget to contact the manager directly to set it.
Also, gradually reorganizing the settings dialog over the next handful of commits.
This implements the GameCube modem adapter. This implementation is stable but not perfect; it drops frames if the receive FIFO length is exceeded. This is probably due to the unimplemented interrupt mentioned in the comments. If the tapserver end of the connection is aware of this limitation, it's easily circumvented by lowering the MTU of the link, but ideally this wouldn't be necessary.
This has been tested with a couple of different versions of Phantasy Star Online, including Episodes 1 & 2 Trial Edition. The Trial Edition is the only version of the game that supports the Modem Adapter and not the Broadband Adapter, which is what made this commit necessary in the first place.
This expands the tapserver BBA interface to be available on all platforms. tapserver itself is still macOS-only, but newserv (the PSO server) is not, and it can directly accept local and remote tapserver connections as well. This makes the tapserver interface potentially useful on all platforms.
Adds a setting field under the hood to retain which folder the player last saved/loaded a state to/from, so that the dialog box to select a state to save/load reopens at that folder.
The Host URL setting in the RetroAchievements config will, if set, be used as the host URL for all server requests for achievements. This allows for an easy switch to the RetroAchievements staging server for testing.
Debug Mode gives players direct read and write access to memory, which could be used to completely manipulate RetroAchievements logic and therefore is not allowed in hardcore mode.
Hardcore Mode is a RetroAchievements feature for enabling as close to original hardware as possible, to keep a fair, challenging, and competitive playing field for achievements (which get tallied differently and emphasized more in hardcore) and leaderboards (where it is mandatory) at the cost of several common emulator features that provide advantages, such as state loading and slower emulation speeds.
This commit just adds the flag to the AchievementSettings, with more to come.
Added handling to Achievement Progress Events, which are generated when an achievement with a Measured field updates in value. For example, an achievement for collecting 120 stars will throw this event when the player collects each star, and with this handling, the player will get a message on screen informing them of this progress. This message will only appear if the newly added RA_PROGRESS_ENABLED setting is true.
FetchBadges fetches all available badges (player, game, achievements) and stores them in AchievementManager's memory. New fields and accessors have been added as necessary. Badges for individual achievements are stored in the UnlockStatus map. The method is public so that the settings dialog can call it if badges are turned on after a game is started. Badges are deleted at game close and logout.
To further increase the accuracy of the post process phase, I've added (scRGB) HDR support, which is necessary
to fully display the PAL and NTSC-J color spaces, and also to improve the quality of post process texture samplings and
do them in linear space instead of gamma space (which is very important when playing at low resolutions).
For SDR, the quality is also slightly increased, at least if any post process runs, as the buffer is now
R10G10B10A2 (on Vulkan, DX11 and DX12) if supported; previously it was R8G8B8A8 but the alpha bits were wasted.
Gamma correction is arguably the most important thing as Dolphin on Windows outputted in "sRGB" (implicitly)
as that's what Windows expects by default, though sRGB gamma is very different from the gamma commonly used
by video standards dating to the pre HDR era (roughly gamma 2.35).
Additionally, the addition of HDR support (which is pretty straight forward and minimal), added support for
our own custom AutoHDR shaders, which would allow us to achieve decent looking HDR in Dolphin games without
having to use SpecialK or Windows 11 AutoHDR. Both of which don't necessarily play nice with older games
with strongly different and simpler lighting. HDR should also be supported in Linux.
Development of my own AutoHDR shader is almost complete and will come next.
This has been carefully tested and there should be no regression in any of the different features that Dolphin
offers, like multisampling, stereo rendering, other post processes, etc etc.
Fixes: https://bugs.dolphin-emu.org/issues/8941
Co-authored-by: EndlesslyFlowering <EndlesslyFlowering@protonmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Dogway <lin_ares@hotmail.com>
Adds features to improve navigation of Skylanders portal menu, includes:
-List of Skylanders and filters for searching
-Improved buttons for faster loading options
-Added default user folder for storing .sky files
Enable through command line options:
-C Graphics.Settings.TexturePNGCompressionLevel=[0-9]
Or from GFX.ini:
[Settings]
TexturePNGCompressionLevel=[0-9]
@see #10792
RetroAchievements Rich Presence is a script that is run periodically on a game's memory to provide a detailed text description of what the player is doing. Existing Discord presence on Dolphin would update a player's Discord status to say not just that they are using Dolphin but that they are playing, for example, Sonic Adventure 2 Battle; Rich Presence would detail that the player is in City Escape with 5 lives and 142 rings.
Activating this in the runtime simply entails loading that text script, as returned by the FetchGameData API call, into the runtime, here only determined by whether rich presence is enabled in the achievement settings. Deactivating this is done via the same rcheevos method by setting the rich presence to an empty string.
