Nvidia Shield TV softlock

[johnnyoc3]

I've encountered an interesting softlock problem, but am having issues figuring out exactly what is going on. There is a bug someone previously filed for the same issue, but on OS X. https://bugs.dolphin-emu.org/issues/9805

along with accompanying video showing the issue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9KL9tjUUi4


the above bug makes mention of Bbox emulation being the core issue. But the wiki page doesnt indicate that it will cause a soft lock, just graphical glitches.
https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=Paper_Mario:_The_Thousand-Year_Door

Can anyone confirm if this is expected to function on the shield tv? Based on what i've read and seen from other shield tv users dolphin should emulate properly on shield tv. In fact this game appears to function properly on shield tv for this user from 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbMVLcQWnjA


any help and clarification is appreciated

[degasus]

It is supposed to work on the shield TV, but you must enable BBOX manually. eg by copying the GameSettings directory to /storage/emulated/0/dolphin-emu

[nonexist]

I experience the same thing in my s6 edge. Also bbox ON = crash
Sonicadvance says bbox emulation for mobile require ES 3.1 but still not work

[johnnyoc3]

(11-10-2016, 07:07 PM)degasus Wrote: It is supposed to work on the shield TV, but you must enable BBOX manually. eg by copying the GameSettings directory to /storage/emulated/0/dolphin-emu

i appreciate the quick response degasus. Forgive my ignorance but I dont know of any "GameSetting" directory. Is it possible this isn't included/supported for the android build? I have a "Config" directory Im trying to use dolphin 5.0

a quick google on enable bbox says to add the following to my Dolphin.ini file. is there a list of this config values somewhere?

Code:

[Video]
UseBBox = True

[retroben]

The option changed in newer versions,I couldn't ever get it to work for Super Paper Mario until adding this following renamed line under a renamed section:

Code:

[Video_Hacks]
BBoxEnable = True

With this applied in the correct GAME01.ini name within GameSettings folder in the dolphin-emu folder,the Prologue Bowser scene no longer crashes it,and it should work for Thousand Year Door.

Too bad input is frustrating for the lack of complex mapping to make pointing work playably,it doesn't stay off the screen until holding the button because it instead stays ON the screen until holding said button,preventing you from moving since the Tippi Pixl's power is constantly active.

It works fine on a laptop with the extra input customizations for pointing management.
I would love to see the complex input options ported to the Android version,but it would likely be hard to implement.
Mainly for selecting the (and,or,not,etc.) functions to make it when 'not' pressing a button,the "pointing at screen" function doesn't become activated until pressing that button.

[johnnyoc3]

thanks for all the feedback.

sounds like i need to create a "GameSettings" folder inside my "dolphin-emu" directory. Then i need to put G8M into it https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/blob/master/Data/Sys/GameSettings/G8M.ini

I will try this out tonight

Is there any reason the GameSettings folder is not included with the android build by default?

[retroben]

I don't know about the folder itself at all,but as for the ini files,I think it was originally the concern of cluttering the storage and also many extra files to scan as a result.

[johnnyoc3]

I copied over the entire GameSettings folder and the soft lock is fixed. Much appreciated everyone

@retroben

Do you have any other, game agnostic ini settings to recommend? im just getting dolphin set up and would love to know how to squeeze the best performance.

i notice you also have a shield tv so im looking for your pro tips

[retroben]

For any game that has choppy framerates,use SkipIdle and SyncOnSkipIdle and (if enabled) disable SyncGPU to avoid frequent stutters from it.

Though this advice may be invalidated since the removal of the Skip Idle option aside from "enabled" being the default.
These settings prevent choppy framedrops and desyncing slowdowns from happening.