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Ok that explains how "Show Defaults" works and makes sense.

But why does "Edit Config" open a blank file of GALE01.ini? That name doesn't match any INI.

Because it always opens a six-letter INI. It's based on the game ID only, not on which default INIs exist for the game.

Then what is the purpose of "Edit Config"? The tooltip is "This will let you manually edit the INI config file." I would assume that it should open an INI for editing and not be blank.

It lets you edit the user config, which is separate from the default config. (The default config is never supposed to be edited directly.) If you haven't added anything to the user config before, it's expected that the user INI file will be blank when you open it.

Oh that is unclear. Should I update the tooltip to "This will let you manually edit the INI user config file"?

While that isn't worse, I'm not sure how much it would help the user understand.

Sidetrack, The tooltip of "Show Defaults" states "Opens the default (read-only) configuration for this game in an external text editor." Changes to the file can be saved in an external text editor so it's not read-only.

How about this idea then?

"Edit Config" tooltip: "This will let you manually edit the INI user config file. Changes should be made to the user config and not the default config."

"Show Defaults" tooltip: "Opens the default configuration for this game in an external text editor. Changes should be made to the user config and not the default config."

Also, please rename this issue to "Improve "Edit Config" and "Show Defaults"'s tooltip"

Actually I should unify the language further:

"Edit Config" tooltip: "This will let you manually edit the INI user config file for this game. Changes should be made to the user config and not the default config."

"Show Defaults" tooltip: "This will let you view the INI default config file for this game. Changes should be made to the user config and not the default config."

Also, please rename this issue to "Improve "Edit Config" and "Show Defaults"'s tooltip"

Sorry, but that's not really the kind of thing that we track here at the issue tracker, so I'm not going to rename and reopen this issue. If you want to change the text, you should make a PR.

There was definitely a problem with those buttons but I needed to open this issue to make sure I understood what was actually going on. PR opened with some further tweaks: https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/pull/6299

Thanks!