This could happen with savestate loads, permission issues, or use by other processes.
Prior to this Dolphin assumed any existing file could be opened and crashes from invalid variant access.
Failing to open a file during savestate load will likely still crash but at least the user will know why.
This makes it possible to gracefully force stop emulation rather than
having to kill Dolphin completely when NetPlay deadlocks in the input
loop. Without a graceful stop, Wii saves do not get flushed to the main
NAND, and are left in limbo in the temporary NAND.
Doing pretty much anything in the controller config breaks NetPlay
(desync and/or deadlock), as saving the settings reconfigures
controller interfaces, which NetPlay doesn't expect.
The implementation of peer initialization would hang if the initial
packet was never received. This fixes that issue by deferring the
initialization to the packet receive loop.
This sends arbitrary packets in chunks to be reassembled at the other
end, allowing large data transfers to be speed-limited and interleaved
with other packets being sent. It also enables tracking the progress of
large data transfers.
Its usage was inconsistent, confusing, and buggy, so I opted to just
remove it entirely. It has been replaced with PadIndex for the
appropriate instances (mainly networking), and inappropriate usages
(where it was really just a player ID) have been replaced with the
PlayerId type. The definition of "no mapping" has been changed from -1
to 0 to match the defintion of "no player", as -1 (255 unsigned) is
actually a valid player ID.
The bugs never manifested because it only occurs with a full lobby of
255 players, at which point the last player's ID collides with the "no
mapping" definition and some undefined behavior occurs. Nevertheless, I
thought it best to fix it anyways as the usage of PadMapping was
confusing.
The interface address isn't particularly useful in most circumstances
(playing over internet), and we have a way to get the external IP now,
so displaying it in the dialog is useful.
And use it for reporting games that rely on ICache emulation to some
degree. We know of a few but it would be interesting to get a more
exhaustive list from crowdsourcing.
This was an erronous change in 534db3b, Ra was previously loaded but was changed to not being loaded.
Why is loading necessary? Loading is necessary because when a memory exception occurs, the current
register values are flushed. This occurs before a new value is loaded into Ra, so the previous value
is required in Ra.
