Dolphin

Sanctus

Hi.
I am having a incoherence here. If I enter a gamecube game with batocera, it loads the game but somehow using the option "auto (multiple of 640x528)" in Graphics -> Enhancements -> Internal resolution.

If i press F1 on Batocera, i go to Applications -> dolphin-emu-config, i enter the emulator, i force that option to be on "Native (640x528).
If i run a game being there, its all fine... as soon as i go to a game by Batocera, that option changes alone.
Someone know where may be the problem?

joinski

Sanctus

Do not change resolution in dolphin-emu-config.
Instead use the Game Settings/Advanced/Gamecube/ TV/Video Mode options

Sanctus

joinski i understand what you are suggesting but a few days ago i could do what i said and it was saving the options... even the controllers.

joinski

Sanctus
which version of batocera?
fact is, on newer versions of batocera (i believe since 5.21 or so) not all settings in the dolphin-emu-config (reachable via F1) are saved permanently.

Sanctus

joinski 5.24.. i see.

Dragu

They didn't yet correct this error since 5.20 ?
That's a shame.

joinski

Dragu

i guess the devs want this behaviour like this.
batocera is like a kind of firmware.
the aim is to have a stable and robust system.
giving the user too much freedom in terms of changing settings could lead to problems/instability.
that's what i guess how the devs are thinking about this (and it is really just a guess, i do not know the reason in fact).

my personal opinion: i would wish, there would be a setting in ES which activates a kind of "advanced user settings", that will allow you to change all the settings of the emulators (dolphin, pcsx2) and be able to save those changes permanently.

Dragu

joinski
It's a bad choice in this case.
I was able to play "Golden Eye 007", the new Wii version on my bartop with reconfiguration of both joysticks and all buttons. For a game like this you need hudge control and anyway on a build arcade console you can only play with a reconfiguration on everything. This was (and is always) pretty good working on 5.20.
After my first attempt to move on 5.21, this just became funny, because when 007 was asked to shoot, he pull out it's smartphone like a girlie. 😃
OK, funny, but not possible to play. So I am always on 5.20 but cannot understand the dev thinking about this.
Configuration files are existing to be able to configurate a piece of software to your needs. Overwrite the configuration without the agreement of the user, remember me the after 4.1 Recalbox times.

joinski

Dragu

A while ago someone mentioned a method to change the controller configuration of dolphin emulator, he found out, that worked and was saved permanently.
I don't remember who it was and were he wrote this (must be somerwhere on the discord) but fortunately I had copied his instructions and I just found this copy again!

to change dolphin controller configuration, navigate to:
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/configgen/generators/dolphin
and edit this file:
dolphinControllers.py

I had just tried that with Gamecube. Because I was annoyed by the wrong button assignment there for a long time. Namely the buttons B and X (Gamecube controller) were swapped.

So i edited the file and changed this:

def generateControllerConfig_gamecube(playersControllers):
gamecubeMapping = {
'y': 'Buttons/X', 'b': 'Buttons/A',
'x': 'Buttons/Y', 'a': 'Buttons/B',
'r2': 'Buttons/Z', 'start': 'Buttons/Start',
'pageup': 'Triggers/L', 'pagedown': 'Triggers/R',
'up': 'D-Pad/Up', 'down': 'D-Pad/Down', 'left': 'D-Pad/Left', 'right': >
'joystick1up': 'Main Stick/Up', 'joystick1left': 'Main Stick/Left',
'joystick2up': 'C-Stick/Up', 'joystick2left': 'C-Stick/Left'
}

to this:

def generateControllerConfig_gamecube(playersControllers):
gamecubeMapping = {
'y': 'Buttons/B', 'b': 'Buttons/A',
'x': 'Buttons/Y', 'a': 'Buttons/X',
'r2': 'Buttons/Z', 'start': 'Buttons/Start',
'pageup': 'Triggers/L', 'pagedown': 'Triggers/R',
'up': 'D-Pad/Up', 'down': 'D-Pad/Down', 'left': 'D-Pad/Left', 'right': 'D-Pad/Right',
'joystick1up': 'Main Stick/Up', 'joystick1left': 'Main Stick/Left',
'joystick2up': 'C-Stick/Up', 'joystick2left': 'C-Stick/Left'
}

saved the file and tested with Mario Kart Double Dash!
And it worked 🙂 Now the button mapping is finally correct and i can brake with B (which is Y on a SNES-style controller or Square on a PS3-controller) and use items with X (which is A on a SNES-controller and Circle on a PS3-controller).
And this setting was also saved permanently (it does not change back to default after exit the game or reboot/shutdown and turn on the system again) 🙂

Dragu

joinski
It should work this way when you want to assign the buttons and joysticks on a permanent base.
But very often, when you change game, you must attribute a special configuration just for this game.
In the original configuration file it is possible to attribute configurations for individual games and also functioning till 5.20 included. What you describe is a nice way around, but will not allow game specific configurations.
Something that is also needed in Mame and with other emulators. And in Dosbox anyway. But there it is working.
The game specific configuration where on the todo list, as it was told some times ago. 🙂
As Susan told me to move to Retropie. I am not very well seen in France. 😉

joinski

Dragu
Ok, you are right. This method will not help, if you need game specific configurations.
It would be a cool feature if you could edit the button mapping specifically for each game (and be able to save this permanently).

I would already have an idea how to make it most user-friendly in ES Game Menu.
Would be great, if you could just press Select-Button on the game, where you want a specific button mapping, then go to "Edit this game's Metadata" and then have the possibility to "Change this game's button mapping".
And it would be awesome, if then a drawing of the genuine controller for this system would be displayed, so that you can easily see, which button mapping would make sense the most for the controller you are using.
But I guess programming this and integrating it into Batocera would take a lot of effort.

But to come back to your example with Golden Eye 007 for Wii. Wouldn't it make more sense for those games where you would have to adjust the controls, so that you can use them with the controller you're owning, instead just use the geniune Wii Mote/Nunchucks or whatever is needed for playing Golden Eye 007?
When emulating different systems, it is not always possible to play every game with every controller. You either have to compromise, or just play with the original controllers.