Project Overhaul Dolphin Wiki

[wildgoosespeeder]

(11-11-2015, 07:21 AM)JosJuice Wrote: That would be nice, but computers are not magic. Some games simply require things like EFB2RAM, period. It can't be fixed (other than getting rid of the more inaccurate options).

Fair enough.

(11-11-2015, 07:21 AM)JosJuice Wrote: Yes, there are some EFB2Texture issues that are valid on the bug tracker, like the fix for palettes. Most aren't. I am not going to support the bug tracker being full of useless reports for the sake of possibly catching some rare valid issue that looks identical to the useless reports. Telling them apart requires debugging the game and knowing if Dolphin is doing something wrong, and I don't think any developer is going to bother doing that for a significant amount of issues that are likely to be irrelevant.

As Kolano mentioned, I consider this a *.ini request change for all future distributions of Dolphin if the problem can't be fixed through code.

(11-11-2015, 07:21 AM)JosJuice Wrote: Okay. What does that have to do with anything?

It has an associated bug report. It acts as a reminder that Dolphin needs code to emulate that feature some day. It's not really a bug report but the benefits of the report are there.

(11-11-2015, 07:21 AM)JosJuice Wrote: So you want to provide a good overview of how seriously different settings affect the game, but the overview mentions nothing at all about which settings affect which issue?

You raise a good point there. I didn't think of that. That would require templates for each setting and have that template be called with my RatingProblemFix template. The templates would be a waste though but they could be repurposed for the config template to make them less of a waste.
https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=Template:Config

(11-11-2015, 07:21 AM)JosJuice Wrote: That's nice, but it doesn't get rid of the need to actually do work, and there's still the problem that the templates will make things harder for first-time editors. It could be worth it if the system has enough advantages, but I don't think it does.

Every Wiki needs work. At least my template wouldn't put the pressure on only the people that already know the articles are out-of-date. It brings the attention to the probably uninformed reader as well. It gives the work that needs to get done some direction.

(11-11-2015, 07:21 AM)JosJuice Wrote: I guess putting pages that lack bug report links or issue ratings in special categories might help with fixing the lack of bug report links and issue ratings, but in what way does that improve the wiki? The real problem is many games lack issues or have outdated issue descriptions, which only can be fixed by people actually going out of their way to test games and write about issues. If you want to have a template like on https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=Schlag_den_Raab/sandbox that says "this is out of date" and puts the page in a category of outdated pages, then I guess that's cool. What I don't see the point of is the issue ratings.

The end goal I have with issue ratings is that it performs a multitude of useful functions just with the use of one template alone.