How do I DISABLE the fast forward button (TAB)

06-07-2020, 07:46 PM #1

I have looked all over and the only thing that I can find is how to disable the emulation speed limit. I am NOT trying to disable the speed limit. I am trying to disable the fast forward entirely. The TAB button is in a very inconvenient place and I always hit it on accident when I press the Q key. I have looked in the config, the hotkey settings, and the controller settings and I have found no such key or option to re-map or remove the fast forward hotkey.

**JosJuice** · 06-07-2020, 07:53 PM #2

(06-07-2020, 07:46 PM)RazzleberryJam Wrote: I have looked in the config, the hotkey settings, and the controller settings and I have found no such key or option to re-map or remove the fast forward hotkey.

There should be exactly that in the hotkey settings. It's the last hotkey in the first tab ("Disable Emulation Speed Limit"), and you can unmap it by middle-clicking it.

06-07-2020, 08:14 PM #3

(06-07-2020, 07:53 PM)JosJuice Wrote: There should be exactly that in the hotkey settings. It's the last hotkey in the first tab ("Disable Emulation Speed Limit"), and you can unmap it by middle-clicking it.

Why in the world is it called that... I thought that "emulation speed limit" meant disabling the speed limit when using the fast forward function with TAB...
Can you please see if you guys can change that? This was way too confusing to figure out...
Thank you by the way.

**mbc07** · 06-08-2020, 11:36 AM #4

The name is accurate. There's no fast forward function in Dolphin and holding Tab does exactly what the hotkey says: the emulation speed limit is disabled and thus Dolphin run as fast as your system can...

06-09-2020, 05:12 AM #5

(06-08-2020, 11:36 AM)mbc07 Wrote: The name is accurate. There's no fast forward function in Dolphin and holding Tab does exactly what the hotkey says: the emulation speed limit is disabled and thus Dolphin run as fast as your system can...

I did not say it wasn't accurate I said it was confusing.
Did you forget that directly above the option there is an option to increase or decrease emulation speed?
Did you also forget that the speed limit is also capped at 200%?
Disabling Emulation Speed Limit would obviously point to the emulation Speed Limit, or one would think.

**mbc07** · (This post was last modified: 06-09-2020, 07:53 AM by mbc07.)

(06-09-2020, 05:12 AM)RazzleberryJam Wrote: Disabling Emulation Speed Limit would obviously point to the emulation Speed Limit, or one would think.

But that's exactly what it does! How a hotkey that disables the emulation speed limit when held and that is literally called "Disable Emulation Speed Limit" is not accurate, or confusing? If there's no speed limit while holding that key, it seems pretty obvious the game would run as fast as your system can...

**DJBarry004** · 06-09-2020, 08:28 AM #7

(06-09-2020, 05:12 AM)RazzleberryJam Wrote: I did not say it wasn't accurate I said it was confusing.
Did you forget that directly above the option there is an option to increase or decrease emulation speed?
Did you also forget that the speed limit is also capped at 200%?
Disabling Emulation Speed Limit would obviously point to the emulation Speed Limit, or one would think.

In the UI you can choose up to 200% speed indeed. Holding TAB uncaps the emulated speed completely. What's so confusing about it? Am I missing something?

06-10-2020, 03:16 PM #8

(06-09-2020, 08:28 AM)DJBarry004 Wrote: In the UI you can choose up to 200% speed indeed. Holding TAB uncaps the emulated speed completely. What's so confusing about it? Am I missing something?

I thought that the "200% speed" function would default the emulation speed at 200% without pressing buttons.

(06-09-2020, 07:51 AM)mbc07 Wrote: But that's exactly what it does! How a hotkey that disables the emulation speed limit when held and that is literally called "Disable Emulation Speed Limit" is not accurate, or confusing? If there's no speed limit while holding that key, it seems pretty obvious the game would run as fast as your system can...

This is why I am saying this is confusing. I am having trouble even comprehending exactly what you are saying compared to what I was trying to say.
Listing the fast forward function as just "Disable Emulation Speed Limit" isn't the best way to phrase it. It makes it sound like it removes the 200% cap from the other option. Instead It should be called something like "Speed up Emulation". The fact that I had to make an entire forum post to find the hotkey says something.

**JosJuice** · 06-10-2020, 05:46 PM #9

(06-10-2020, 03:16 PM)RazzleberryJam Wrote: Instead It should be called something like "Speed up Emulation".

But wouldn't it be confusing to have one hotkey called "Increase Emulation Speed" and another hotkey that works entirely differently called "Speed up Emulation"?

**mbc07** · (This post was last modified: 06-10-2020, 06:41 PM by mbc07.)

(06-10-2020, 03:16 PM)RazzleberryJam Wrote: I thought that the "200% speed" function would default the emulation speed at 200% without pressing buttons.

This is why I am saying this is confusing. I am having trouble even comprehending exactly what you are saying compared to what I was trying to say.
Listing the fast forward function as just "Disable Emulation Speed Limit" isn't the best way to phrase it. It makes it sound like it removes the 200% cap from the other option. Instead It should be called something like "Speed up Emulation". The fact that I had to make an entire forum post to find the hotkey says something.

Like I said earlier, there's no "fast forward" function, you're essentially saying the name is confusing because it isn't named after a feature we don't have and that's what doesn't make sense. The emulation speed adjustment currently available in Dolphin works this way:

On the general settings, there's a "Speed Limit" dropdown list, where you can select values ranging from 10% up to 200%. There's also an "Unlimited" value on that same list;
On the hotkey settings, there's a group named "Emulation Speed" where you will find 3 hotkeys: "Increase Emulation Speed", "Decrease Emulation Speed" and "Disable Emulation Speed Limit";
All three hotkeys from that group affect exactly the same setting, which is the one controlled by the "Speed Limit" dropdown: the increase hotkey will advance to the next option of the list whenever pressed (e.g. 100% => 110% => 120% and so on), the decrease hotkey will advance to the previous option of the list whenever pressed (e.g. 120% => 110% => 100% and so on) and finally, the disable hotkey will jump straight to the "Unlimited" option of the list and will keep that option selected for as long as the hotkey is held down. After you release the key, the speed limit setting jumps back to the same value it was set to before pressing the disable hotkey.

All three hotkeys control the same setting, are grouped together to reflect that and have extremely accurate names considering what they actually do when pressed/held down. For me it seems the confusion was that you went looking for a "fast forward" function, which Dolphin doesn't have. Disabling the emulation speed limit achieves a somewhat similar result from a "fast forward" function, but it's not the same thing.