Dolphin Hex Editing Oddity

12-13-2016, 11:11 AM #1

I've come across an oddity in the way Dolphin is outputting DTM files, and I'm hoping to figure out if this is my issue or if others can reproduce it.

When I would save a DTM in Dolphin 4.0-5400, each frame of the movie would correspond to 1 line in the DTM. However, in recent releases this number has grown, so my DTMs are several times as long and require me to change multiple cells for each frame I wish to edit. In 4.0-9410, each frame seems to be repeated 4 times in the DTM, and in 5.0-321 and 5.0-1471, each frame seems to be repeated about 7 times. These numbers don't appear to be consistent (either that or Dolphin is polling multiple times per frame and saving each poll), but a video created in a particular Dolphin version will still play back properly.

If anyone can provide some insight on this, it would be greatly appreciated.

**JMC47** · 12-13-2016, 12:50 PM #2

I think this is probably due to the fact that multiple inputs can be taken per frame in games... I don't know for certain.

**JosJuice** · 12-14-2016, 02:40 AM #3

(12-13-2016, 12:50 PM)JMC47 Wrote: I think this is probably due to the fact that multiple inputs can be taken per frame in games... I don't know for certain.

I think so too. DTMs contain each input once, and there's no requirement that there is one input per frame (although I think we forced that to be the case in older versions, including 4.0-5400). I didn't know there could be 7 polls per frame, though...

12-14-2016, 04:34 PM #4

(12-14-2016, 02:40 AM)JosJuice Wrote: I think so too. DTMs contain each input once, and there's no requirement that there is one input per frame (although I think we forced that to be the case in older versions, including 4.0-5400). I didn't know there could be 7 polls per frame, though...

Ah thanks. Why was that restriction lifted, and do you know which build that was done in?

**JosJuice** · 12-15-2016, 01:56 AM #5

I think it was https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/pull/3457 (https://dolphin-emu.org/download/dev/adffa5fbeca45aa32c7b60f73517f0aa4e5b7838/), but I'm not completely sure.

12-15-2016, 08:40 AM #6

(12-15-2016, 01:56 AM)JosJuice Wrote: I think it was https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/pull/3457 (https://dolphin-emu.org/download/dev/adffa5fbeca45aa32c7b60f73517f0aa4e5b7838/), but I'm not completely sure.

Ah yes, that would be it. Thank you for your help.