In newer dev builds, cheat search has lost what was probably the most important feature it had: being able to compare against previous value. Without this, cheat search is monumentally less useful in many instances, to the point where I still find myself regularly using 5.0 just for this feature.
Another problem is cheat search seemingly has no way to search MEM2 on Wii games. I get that AR codes can't use MEM2, but cheat search is still such an important part of reverse engineering in general, and Gecko codes CAN make use of MEM2, so it's not even entirely useless in the cheat code department. This one has caused me some personal headache of looking for a value before deciding to just dig around in assembly for a while to find it being exactly what I thought it was, just in MEM2.
These two things would make Dolphin so much better for reverse engineering and modding games.
Another problem is cheat search seemingly has no way to search MEM2 on Wii games. I get that AR codes can't use MEM2, but cheat search is still such an important part of reverse engineering in general, and Gecko codes CAN make use of MEM2, so it's not even entirely useless in the cheat code department. This one has caused me some personal headache of looking for a value before deciding to just dig around in assembly for a while to find it being exactly what I thought it was, just in MEM2.
These two things would make Dolphin so much better for reverse engineering and modding games.