Super Smash Bros Melee Desync

[Honu]

My specs:
Operating System: Windows 8 64-Bit
Processor/CPU: AMD FX-8150
Video Card/GPU: ATI AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series (XFX Pine Group)
Memory/RAM: 16GB DDR3
Dolphin Revision Currently Using: 3.5 x64-bit



We've been at this all day and practically have given up but I really want this to work so I'm here posting about it hoping someone has a solid answer for us that will allow us to play with next to no problems. We have tried many ways and played with the setting A LOT and still came up with nothing. Please, does anyone have a solid solution for us to play this game through Netplay with next to no issues?

[Shonumi]

Use the latest revisions of Dolphin. Netplay has improved significantly from what I've heard since 3.5. You can get them here: https://dolphin-emu.org/download/

[Honu]

Dolphin 3.5-2312 is tested and proven it's good for this game?

[Shonumi]

I dunno if anyone's used that revisions specifically, but yes, the newest revisions of Dolphin do much better with netplay than 3.5. Try it for yourself; I'm sure you'll be pleasantly surprised. If not, come back here and we'll try to sort things out for you.

[MayImilae]

We had been keeping up with the netplay improvements since 3.5, but there are so many we lost track. 20-30?

[pauldacheez]

Make sure to follow this thing, too. Follow it closely, I don't want you coming back here and complaining about more desyncs when you're just using different memcards or something. https://dolphin-emu.org/docs/guides/netplay-guide/

Also, keep in mind that dual-core will inherently cause occasional desyncs. Usually after a round or two, I hear. I won't force you to use single-core or anything, though, it'd perform shittily on your CPU. (AMD's single-threaded performance is awful right now, and Dolphin does not like awful single-threaded performance. An i5-3570K or 4670K is ideal for Dolphin. Overclocking *heavily* is a fine idea too.)

[JMC47]

Basically, if you use 3.5, it's not going to work. If you use newer revisions, it will. If you want to play Melee consistently, I have a special INI file with useful netplay cheats on it.

http://bit.ly/13t0QDN

Basically, using that, you won't need to use memory cards. That plus the latest dolphin versions will work well; you just need to remember to enable cheats once the file is in the proper location (user/gameconfigs within your dolphin directory.) Both people will need the cheatcodes enabled if you go this route.