Feature Request Thread

[apple of enlightenment]

The Official GC adapter support really tightens up the authentic GC experience on Dolphin I think. Is there Mac support in the works? Many thanks.

[NKF98]

I believe Mac support is pretty low priority b/c running Dolphin via bootcamp makes it run faster, better, without crappy OSX drivers, etc.

[kirbypuff]

* "Increase IR" and "Decrease IR" hotkeys instead of the pain-in-the-rear "Toggle IR" hotkey.
* "Show/Hide OSD" hotkey.
* "Toggle FPS Display" hotkey that toggles between FPS, VPS, FPS+VPS, Speed (Percentage) and OFF.

[Yoyoman]

Maybe make an article. 

Provide more information on the FAQ. 

Add a button to the top of the website about. 

Implement some measures in Dolphin.

Anything to stop piracy in Dolphin so that people don't mistake this as a piracy project.

[JosJuice]

There is already talk about piracy in the FAQ... I don't know what more could be added there, other than maybe instructions on how to rip legally with a PC DVD drive. There isn't enough to write about piracy to warrant an article or a separate page about it either.

Regarding implementing measures in Dolphin, that's not really feasible. A proper legal ISO looks identical to a proper pirated ISO, so it isn't really possible to know whether the user is doing something illegal. I guess you could make a list of hashes of improperly made pirate ISOs, but it would would only work in some cases, waste time for the developers to implement, waste time for users because of the need to hash games when starting them... and that protection is easy as hell to get around, because users could simply use an older Dolphin version (eww!) or modify Dolphin's code since it's open source.

[JMC47]

Mac support for the adapter is impossible afaik due to how Mac OSX works.

[Yoyoman]

(03-30-2015, 02:10 AM)JosJuice Wrote: There is already talk about piracy in the FAQ... I don't know what more could be added there, other than maybe instructions on how to rip legally with a PC DVD drive. There isn't enough to write about piracy to warrant an article or a separate page about it either.

Regarding implementing measures in Dolphin, that's not really feasible. A proper legal ISO looks identical to a proper pirated ISO, so it isn't really possible to know whether the user is doing something illegal. I guess you could make a list of hashes of improperly made pirate ISOs, but it would would only work in some cases, waste time for the developers to implement, waste time for users because of the need to hash games when starting them... and that protection is easy as hell to get around, because users could simply use an older Dolphin version (eww!) or modify Dolphin's code since it's open source.

Then what are the things we can do to keep Dolphin from being mistaken as piracy?

[AnyOldName3]

Go with innocent until proven guilty when offering support, and use the banhammer whenever someone admits piracy.

[Shonumi]

We already take enough measures on this site to prevent piracy. If someone truly, honestly equates us to some pirate ISO site, they're idiots who didn't spend more than two seconds worth of time actually on dolphin-emu.org. Emulators have legal and legitimate purposes; as long as we advocate those and deal with users who don't conform to the them, others can't say we're even close to being on par with ROM/ISO/Warez stuff.

That isn't to say a bunch of pirates don't use Dolphin (they do, judging by our ban logs), but I really don't think a few banned bad apples is going to ruin our reputation. Alright, rant is over

[Yoyoman]

But the manuals of Nintendo games clearly say that it's illegal to rip games. I even made a help ticket for Nintendo and they said it is. I even called them and they said it is illegal. So what do we do now? Are we safe?

Sorry if this post is in the wrong place. You can move it if you want to.