Normally, SI is polled at a rate defined by the game, and we have to send the pad state to other clients on every poll or else we'll desync. This can result in fairly high bandwidth usage, especially with multiple controllers, mostly due to UDP/IP overhead.
This change introduces an option to reduce the SI poll rate to once per frame, which may introduce up to one frame of additional latency, but will reduce bandwidth usage substantially, which is useful for users on very slow internet connections.
Polling SI less frequently than the game asked for did not seem to cause any problems in my testing, so this should be perfectly safe to do.
Makes the enum values strongly-typed and prevents the identifiers from
polluting the PowerPC namespace. This also cleans up the parameters of
some functions where we were accepting an ambiguous int type and
expecting the correct values to be passed in.
Now those parameters accept a PowerPC::CPUCore type only, making it
immediately obvious which values should be passed in. It also turns out
we were storing these core types into other structures as plain ints,
which have also been corrected.
As this type is used directly with the configuration code, we need to
provide our own overloaded insertion (<<) and extraction (>>) operators
in order to make it compatible with it. These are fairly trivial to
implement, so there's no issue here.
A minor adjustment to TryParse() was required, as our generic function
was doing the following:
N tmp = 0;
which is problematic, as custom types may not be able to have that
assignment performed (e.g. strongly-typed enums), so we change this to:
N tmp;
which is sufficient, as the value is attempted to be initialized
immediately under that statement.
ChunkFile doesn't use any of the file utilities, so we can drop these
headers to avoid pulling in unnecessary dependencies. This also
uncovered a few indirect inclusions.
Ideally Common.h wouldn't be a header in the Common library, and instead be renamed to something else, like PlatformCompatibility.h or something, but even then, there's still some things in the header that don't really fall under that label
This moves the version strings out to their own version header that doesn't dump a bunch of other unrelated things into scope, like what Common.h was doing.
This also places them into the Common namespace, as opposed to letting them sit in the global namespace.
Places all of the SI code under the SerialInterface namespace instead of
only the main source file. This keeps all SI code under a common name,
as well as out of the global namespace
It is kind of silly to connect all of the configured Wii remotes (from
the user config; NOT netplay assigned remotes), then connect/disconnect
additional Wii remotes *after* the core has booted.
(The bWii check has been removed, because it's actually unneeded;
m_wiimote_map is always usable regardless of bWii. And we can't get
info about the currently running game without booting the core with our
current config system…)
This should fix Netplay trying to connect all configured Wii remotes.
IPC_HLE is actually IOS HLE. The actual IPC emulation is not in
IPC_HLE, but in HW/WII_IPC.cpp. So calling IPC_HLE IOS is more
accurate. (If IOS LLE gets ever implemented, it'll likely be at
a lower level -- Starlet LLE.)
This also totally gets rid of the IPC_HLE prefix in file names, and
moves some source files to their own subdirectories to make the file
hierarchy cleaner.
We're going to get ~14 additional source files with the USB PR,
and this is really needed to keep things from becoming a total pain.
Using u8 as indexers is kind of silly, since the rest of the public API
essentially uses int for this sort of thing. Changing these to int also
gets rid of quite a few implicit truncations.
This also allows for getting rid of similar silliness in the netplay API.
This adds the ability to passthrough a whole Bluetooth adapter and skip
the majority of the Bluetooth emulation code. We use libusb to send HCI
commands, receive HCI events and transfer ACL data directly to the
first adapter that is found or to a specific adapter (if configured to)
This is possible because the Wii's Bluetooth module is actually just
a pretty standard Bluetooth adapter…
…except for two vendor-specific commands, for which replies are faked,
and also for the sync button. This adds a hotkey that works in the
exact same way as the sync button would on a Wii: it triggers an HCI
event, which emulated software interpret as a command to perform
a BT inquiry.
This commit also changes the UI code to expose passthrough mode
and WII_IPC_HLE to be a bit more thread safe (for the device map).
Replaces old and simple usages of std::atomic<bool> with Common::Flag
(which was introduced after the initial usage), so it's clear that
the variable is a flag and because Common::Flag is well tested.
This also replaces the ready logic in WiimoteReal with Common::Event
since it was basically just unnecessarily reimplementing Common::Event.
Instead of sleeping in NetPlayClient::GetNetPads and NetPlayClient::WiimoteUpdate,
now use std::condition_variable. This allows for finer control over these blocking
areas.
* Focus "Hash Code" / "IP address" text box by default in "Connect"
* Focus game list in "Host" tab
* RETURN keypress now host/join depending on selected tab
* Remember last hosted game
* Remove PanicAlertT:
* Simply log message to netplay window
* Remove them when they are useless
* Show some netplay message in OSD
* Chat messages
* Pad buffer changes
* Desync alerts
* Stop the game consistently when another player disconnects / crashes
* Prettify chat textbox
* Log netplay ping to OSD
Join scenario:
* Copy netplay code
* Open netplay
* Paste code
* Press enter
Host scenario:
* Open netplay
* Go to host tab
* Press enter
The old implementation always polled the local 1st Wiimote and used that as input for the Wiimote that is mapped to the player. But the reporting mode for Wiimotes can be different, even when using the same extensions. So an input for Wiimote 1 with a data size 4 could be used for Wiimote 2, which actually requires data size 7 at that time for example.
The 2nd problem was that the code added a dummy input into the buffer, when the reporting mode changed. But when the data from the other player hasn't arrived yet, the data in the buffer is out of order. Well, i think this is the problem, i'm not 100% sure, because i don't fully understand how the buffer works. But on the other hand, i'm pretty sure this will just force sync the players on reporting mode changes, instead of allowing them to be apart.
Pros:
- No more desyncs caused by big bugs in the code.
- Can use different extensions for different players.
Cons:
- Higher latency, because instead of polling 1 controller per player at once, all controllers are polled in order, send to the other players, before the next is processed.
- Have to setup the Wiimote, which the player is going to use, instead of the 1st one.
Now, if the controller config could temporarily be overridden with the one from another slot, the 2nd problem could be fixed. But at the same time, we would lose the ability to use different extensions. (unless we hack around it somehow, or properly send the used extension to the other players)
- Externals/soundtouch/CMakeLists.txt: add -w (since it's not our code) to
silence an unused variable warning
- Source/Core/Core/NetPlayClient.cpp: Work around a Clang/libc++ bug where
initializing a std::array the way the standard says you're supposed to produces
a warning. (libc++'s implementation of std::array, like any sane
implementation, has a C array as a field, so the most explicit form of
initialization would use two braces, one for the struct and one for the array.
Clang has a general warning for not being explicit with braces, which is
usually sane. But the standard only guarantees that initializing std::array
works with a single pair of braces!) There are other places in Dolphin that
incorrectly use double braces, presumably to avoid the warning, so maybe the
warning should just be turned off, but in any case here I just switch to an
equivalent .fill().
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