Emulator Issues #9690
closedDolphin does not alert you if cheats are disabled
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Description
This is a bit of an annoyance that has popped up many times! When a user turns on cheats, if cheats are disabled, there is no alert. So they'll tweak the cheats, not realizing that cheats are disabled, then run the game and wonder why cheats aren't working, then ask in the IRC or forum. Bleck! This is definitely bad UX.
Perhaps we could just craft a simple check as a solution? (disclaimer: not a coder) Whenever a user enables a cheat in the AR Codes or Gecko Codes panels, have Dolphin run a check to see if cheats are disabled, and if cheats are enabled there is nothing, but if cheats are disabled put up an alert that tells the users cheats are globally disabled and they need to change that for cheats to take effect? I guess the only issue with that set up is what happens if a user turns on a cheat and gets the alert, but then decides to turn more cheats then enable cheats. So there would need to be a way to make sure it only happens once per each time opening the config space? (not a coder)