Emulator Issues #4590
closed
Added by ExtremeDude2 almost 13 years ago.
Relates to performance:
No
Relates to maintainability:
No
Description
What's the problem?
When using a hi-res texture pack you have to name it according to the game ID (which is fine), but if someone from one country makes a texture pack and someone from another contry wants to use it, it has to be renamed.
Dolphin version with the problem (as it appears in the title bar, Ex.: "R
4779" or "R 6403M"): All
(optional) Dolphin version that does not have the problem: None
Operating system and version:
32-bit or 64-bit: All
Game ID (as it appears in game properties, Ex.: "GZ2P01" or "RSBE01"): All
- Status changed from New to Questionable
Different regions of games sometimes have different textures, such as stuff with text or censor issues. Batch renaming the new texture files can work if they truly are identical, and I'm not sure if allowing cross-region loading for them is worth the potential for conflicts.
May I suggest if one wants to support multiple country games, use symlinks where you can to save space and create new textures for the new ones? This would be up to the texture pack developer, not the Dolphin team. I know zip supports symlinks on Linux.
Yeah I think the different regions of games may use completely different filenames for the textures... unless... is the filename a hash of the contents of the image? Or the memory region where the texture occurs?
The filename is the hash of the texture in its internal format before conversion.
This is bull in my opinion.
If the texture pack is meant for a certain region, IT'S MEANT FOR THAT REGION.
Usually some textures or hashes change between regions, and I don't think the Dolphin developers should have to do work on the part of lazy texture hackers/users.
- Status changed from Questionable to Won't fix
Nothing to do.
- A texture pack may not work with all regions/versions of a game.
- Where it does, one can rename the directory. (or sym-link)
What are we gonna do? Maintain a database of all games with identical textures?
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