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.
