The version I wrote at this time was based on the thinking from the year old draft, which doesn't have a particular idea about what kind of basis do options get sorted and what kind of meaning is behind Hacks, but that wasn't a stone hard position.
Determining and re-viewing what Hacks should mean and what kind of circumstances an option has to have to be called a Hack then, maybe only a few options or others would need changing and not the ones I mentioned.
The most obvious is the meaning that the implementation behind these options is that they're not implmented correctly/accurately yet, and would be in the future, or never if it's way to much work for too little difference.
You can have something implemented properly as best as it can be, but it would still count as a hack - that's another thing I maybe forgot to point out that from the original game perspective, pretty much everything is a hack, the resolution, the enhancements, right ?
Now the enhancements and other things might truly be proper implementations that hook with the games, but is that really true? If it doesn't hook with some part of original code or internal API and just modifies the area of the memory in a way that officially was never done (similarly to modifying an exe) then it would still be a hack.
So if you go by that, then it's a lot harder to sort things according to original game's viewpoint.
However I don't think that a mainstream definition of a Hack is going to be useful here, it would actually be detrimental, this is a specific field. Guessing the secret answer for a yahoo email account isn't really hacking, for example in security.
EDIT: Here's some of the top few things:
The whole connection betweeen WideScreen hack and Aspect Ratio on the general Tab, never understood it and still don't even tho I keept testing with lots of trial and error and hit the spot last year and kept with it ... as mentioned a rename could help, but some kind of a note too - For me, I had to use widescreen hack to get the results I wanted, but because it's a HACK it has the "don't touch it unless" connotation. Then you have the Aspect Ratio on the Wii tab on the Config window, wait what?
Then I would move the Internal Resolution over from the Enhancements to the General under Basic - Yes it's an enhancement, but it's a BASIC enhancement, right, so language/semantics wise it would all be fine, the Enhancments tab would keep holding other enhancements. While it's technically an internal resolution, that's the main one that dolphin deals with, as it was said, it's not a PC game it's trying to emulate, so it would be justified it has it's own logic with this too.
Speaking of IR and the Wii Config tab, you have PAL60 or EU-RGB60 Mode ... how is that counted with IR then, is that compensated? Wouldn't all the calculations change if the x2 x3 x4 IR setting is based of different native resolution ?
There should be some kind of a note or some kind of indicator (* mark) that PAL60 is enabled, these two options seem far apart, but if my hunch is real then the proper fix would be the actual IR options would be renamed to reflect that when PAL60 is used.
Reading about the Fullscreen Resolution in a recent bug ticket https://bugs.dolphin-emu.org/issues/11073 and the talk on the PR https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/pull/6196 make me think, judging by the fact the removal was because it causes user confusion, what if there could be semi-sneaky checkbox option somewhere which would definitelly keep most users away from enabling it, "CRT TV Output" or "CRT Monitor (legacy)" or "Legacy CRT TV Output" or "Legacy Display (CRT)" ... and only after applying that the option to set fullscren resolution would appear in another tab like Advanced or something, not in the General tab where this checkbox would be for example, so it kinda looks like it does nothing and wouldn't be obvious so they would click it out of curiosity, but disable it back again probably. And what I mean by appear is that it literally changes the GUI, so if you never enable it and look around, you'd never see it, but that's a question if it can be done cross platform.
Determining and re-viewing what Hacks should mean and what kind of circumstances an option has to have to be called a Hack then, maybe only a few options or others would need changing and not the ones I mentioned.
The most obvious is the meaning that the implementation behind these options is that they're not implmented correctly/accurately yet, and would be in the future, or never if it's way to much work for too little difference.
You can have something implemented properly as best as it can be, but it would still count as a hack - that's another thing I maybe forgot to point out that from the original game perspective, pretty much everything is a hack, the resolution, the enhancements, right ?
Now the enhancements and other things might truly be proper implementations that hook with the games, but is that really true? If it doesn't hook with some part of original code or internal API and just modifies the area of the memory in a way that officially was never done (similarly to modifying an exe) then it would still be a hack.
So if you go by that, then it's a lot harder to sort things according to original game's viewpoint.
However I don't think that a mainstream definition of a Hack is going to be useful here, it would actually be detrimental, this is a specific field. Guessing the secret answer for a yahoo email account isn't really hacking, for example in security.
EDIT: Here's some of the top few things:
The whole connection betweeen WideScreen hack and Aspect Ratio on the general Tab, never understood it and still don't even tho I keept testing with lots of trial and error and hit the spot last year and kept with it ... as mentioned a rename could help, but some kind of a note too - For me, I had to use widescreen hack to get the results I wanted, but because it's a HACK it has the "don't touch it unless" connotation. Then you have the Aspect Ratio on the Wii tab on the Config window, wait what?
Then I would move the Internal Resolution over from the Enhancements to the General under Basic - Yes it's an enhancement, but it's a BASIC enhancement, right, so language/semantics wise it would all be fine, the Enhancments tab would keep holding other enhancements. While it's technically an internal resolution, that's the main one that dolphin deals with, as it was said, it's not a PC game it's trying to emulate, so it would be justified it has it's own logic with this too.
Speaking of IR and the Wii Config tab, you have PAL60 or EU-RGB60 Mode ... how is that counted with IR then, is that compensated? Wouldn't all the calculations change if the x2 x3 x4 IR setting is based of different native resolution ?
There should be some kind of a note or some kind of indicator (* mark) that PAL60 is enabled, these two options seem far apart, but if my hunch is real then the proper fix would be the actual IR options would be renamed to reflect that when PAL60 is used.
Reading about the Fullscreen Resolution in a recent bug ticket https://bugs.dolphin-emu.org/issues/11073 and the talk on the PR https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/pull/6196 make me think, judging by the fact the removal was because it causes user confusion, what if there could be semi-sneaky checkbox option somewhere which would definitelly keep most users away from enabling it, "CRT TV Output" or "CRT Monitor (legacy)" or "Legacy CRT TV Output" or "Legacy Display (CRT)" ... and only after applying that the option to set fullscren resolution would appear in another tab like Advanced or something, not in the General tab where this checkbox would be for example, so it kinda looks like it does nothing and wouldn't be obvious so they would click it out of curiosity, but disable it back again probably. And what I mean by appear is that it literally changes the GUI, so if you never enable it and look around, you'd never see it, but that's a question if it can be done cross platform.