AR code change after 4.0

[severen]

Not too long ago I upgraded from a previous version of dolphin (pre 4.0) to 4.01. When I bring up the game settings via right clicking game in rom list - > properties - > edit config, dolphin now opens an ini (named identical to the previous version dolphin used) however the new INI is stored under a new location.

In the INI for the game no AR codes are listed, simply the titles of the codes aka ($infinite lives).

• The codes still can be activated/deactived
• The changes show up in game even though no actual 16 digit AR numbers exist for that specific code...
• Only the name of the code shows up in the INI.
  

When adding a new code, in the INI the name of the code $.... AND the 16 digit AR code shows up.
When adding new codes, I have the option in dolphin under properties -> ar codes - > highlighting the code, to click the "edit" option.
Any of the codes in the list that carried over from the previous dolphin install, I don't have the option to edit them.

The last thing is that adding any new codes, deleting old codes & re-adding them in from the dolphin GUI, breaks the game. "Break" means previous codes will now crash the game altogether on load or if its a code (for example any of the twilight princess "hold r to walk on water" or "press R to instant kill enemies") that activates when you press a button, the game works until that button is pushed. One last thing of note is I'm sure the code correctly matches my region and game id as I've tried taking the 16 digit AR code from the OLD game ini from my dolphin backup (before the update) as well as trying the same AR code from an online source (pre encryption/decryption)


An example of the game's INI before adding any AR codes manually from the dolphin gui.

[ActionReplay_Enabled]
$Infinite Health
$Max Health
$Infinite Oxygen
$Infinite Slingshot Pellets
$Infinite Bombs
$Infinite Arrows
$Infinite Lantern Oil
$All Hidden Skills Learned
$Have Dungeon Map/Compass/Boss Key
$Infinite Small Keys
$Have Giant Wallet
$One Tear Fills 1st Vessel of Light
$One Tear Fills 2nd Vessel of Light
$One Tear Fills 3rd Vessel of Light
$Infinite Arrows (Twilight Spectre)
$Infinite All Bombs (Twilight Spectre)
$Infinite Slingshot seeds (Twilight Spectre)
$Infinite Lantern Oil (Twilight Spectre)
$Infinite Breath under water (Twilight Spectre)
$All Hearts and Infinite Health (Twilight Spectre)
$Always Mid-day (Twilight Spectre)
$Run/walk fast (Twilight Spectre)
$Fast Recover for Hit Wall on Roll (Twilight Spectre)
$Roll Farther and Faster (Twilight Spectre)
$Wolf Fast Dash (Twilight Spectre)
[Core]
DCBZ = False
SyncGPU = False
[Video]
UseBBox = False


INI once an AR code is added from the dolphin GUI


[ActionReplay_Enabled]
$Infinite Health
$Max Health
$Infinite Oxygen
$Infinite Slingshot Pellets
$Infinite Bombs
$Infinite Arrows
$Infinite Lantern Oil
$All Hidden Skills Learned
$Have Dungeon Map/Compass/Boss Key
$Infinite Small Keys
$Have Giant Wallet
$One Tear Fills 1st Vessel of Light
$One Tear Fills 2nd Vessel of Light
$One Tear Fills 3rd Vessel of Light
$Infinite Arrows (Twilight Spectre)
$Infinite All Bombs (Twilight Spectre)
$Infinite Slingshot seeds (Twilight Spectre)
$Infinite Lantern Oil (Twilight Spectre)
$Infinite Breath under water (Twilight Spectre)
$All Hearts and Infinite Health (Twilight Spectre)
$Always Mid-day (Twilight Spectre)
$Run/walk fast (Twilight Spectre)
$Fast Recover for Hit Wall on Roll (Twilight Spectre)
$Roll Farther and Faster (Twilight Spectre)
$Wolf Fast Dash (Twilight Spectre)
$insta kill enemies - press R
[Core]
DCBZ = False
SyncGPU = False
[Video]
UseBBox = False
[ActionReplay]
$insta kill enemies - press R
040D8008 48000020
040D8470 480009A4
04264FFC 40820124
04265078 40820018
04265088 40820008
04265094 40820024
0426509C 4182001C
04087F2C 38000000
B83DD31B 00000020
04264FFC 60000000
04265078 60000000
04265088 60000000
04265094 60000000
0426509C 60000000
00000000 40000000



So ultimately, the only AR functionality I have is being able to activate/deactivate cheats that existed for each game prior to upgrading dolphin.

Wondering if this is limited to myself, or if others have experienced it. Thinking there are some ini issues with the upgrade?


I'm working mainly with
The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess

Game ID: GZ2E01
Country USA

[pauldacheez]

Between 3.5 and 4.0, Dolphin's folder layout has changed in a few major ways:
-User data is stored in ~/My Documents/Dolphin Emulator/ by default, mostly to avoid people having to migrate their saves/configs between versions of Dolphin.
-The "Sys" folder included next to Dolphin.exe is no longer meant to be modified by users, and is meant to be replaced every update since it actually receives some changes every now and then.
-Game-specific settings (including cheats) are split into the (occasionally-updated) defaults included with Dolphin (in Sys) and your changes/additions to them (in ./Dolphin Emulator/GameSettings/).

I don't exactly know about the issues you're having with using the codes – sounds like they may just be broken in 4.0.1? Try 4.0.2 and a current development build to see if things work there.