Dolphin Progress Report: January 2017

As someone who enjoys writing paragraphs of prose for commit messages on even small changes, I love these updates. I have no interest in the emulator or the games, but the engineering feats and writing style are wonderful.

> There's actually no reason why it couldn't have fit on a Dual-layer disc. Our only guess as to why it'd be a double disc game is that maybe it was cheaper, and since it is installing itself, there's no need to disc-swap after the initial installation, more or less erasing the biggest annoyance with multi-disc console games.

One possibility was that the optical disk lasers on early Wii units had issues reading dual-layer disks like Super Smash Bros Brawl, causing disk read errors. Nintendo's official laser cleaner disk helped to some degree, and (if I recall correctly) the power of the laser could be increased with software modifications to help.

> leoetlino's genius solution to this is to actually check if a game is running before sending reset and power commands. Such a brilliant check was definitely not something we should have thought about a long time ago to protect from something like this.

Love this tongue-in-cheek bit! :)

> you fucked up the cache

Ha! Makes me wonder how much vulgarity is in the code of games throughout the years. I feel like this sort of thing would fly these days, but maybe I don't know how it works.

Yes we know this is the most transparent, and well run software development you all have ever seen. Let's discuss something more interesting about this report.