Hi all,
Please bear with me if this is posted in the wrong section of the forum (I wasn't able to find a sub-section that clearly was devoted to suggestions of future features, which is what this post is about).
First off, I really like Dolphin! I primarily use it to play co-op games with my son, who is eight. We have some child friendly PC games as well, but we pretty much only play on Dolphin these days. The Wii games are simply by far the most fun and family friendly games out there, and I am sure I am not the only parent embracing Dolphin for this reason.
So, I was wondering if the developers have ever considered implementing some sort of parental controls in Dolphin? The emulator has reached a level of maturity where it is comparable to pretty much any modern console (and they certainly all have parental controls), and to at least start considering some sort of password protected settings for parents would perhaps make sense...
I was thinking of something along the lines of:
1) a setting for a daily gaming limit (e.g. 30 minutes/day)
2) a setting for a daily/weekly start-up and shut-down times (e.g. Mon-Fri 7pm-8pm, Sun 10am-12am)
3) an ability to monitor which games are being played (and when and for how long)
4) an ability to restrict access to specific games that are less suitable for kids
Obviously, the operating system (in my case Windows 10) already offer parents some level of parental control, but specific controls in Dolphin would be preferable (numbers 3 and 4 above would require it, and numbers 1 and 2 would work better if set up and controlled within Dolphin)
Anyway, just a friendly suggestion
Cheers,
Oioioi
Please bear with me if this is posted in the wrong section of the forum (I wasn't able to find a sub-section that clearly was devoted to suggestions of future features, which is what this post is about).
First off, I really like Dolphin! I primarily use it to play co-op games with my son, who is eight. We have some child friendly PC games as well, but we pretty much only play on Dolphin these days. The Wii games are simply by far the most fun and family friendly games out there, and I am sure I am not the only parent embracing Dolphin for this reason.
So, I was wondering if the developers have ever considered implementing some sort of parental controls in Dolphin? The emulator has reached a level of maturity where it is comparable to pretty much any modern console (and they certainly all have parental controls), and to at least start considering some sort of password protected settings for parents would perhaps make sense...
I was thinking of something along the lines of:
1) a setting for a daily gaming limit (e.g. 30 minutes/day)
2) a setting for a daily/weekly start-up and shut-down times (e.g. Mon-Fri 7pm-8pm, Sun 10am-12am)
3) an ability to monitor which games are being played (and when and for how long)
4) an ability to restrict access to specific games that are less suitable for kids
Obviously, the operating system (in my case Windows 10) already offer parents some level of parental control, but specific controls in Dolphin would be preferable (numbers 3 and 4 above would require it, and numbers 1 and 2 would work better if set up and controlled within Dolphin)
Anyway, just a friendly suggestion

Cheers,
Oioioi