While this system worked for many years, exceptions started popping up and causing issues.
Dolphin used to detect the NTSC, PAL and NTSC-J by the 4th letter in its GameID: GZL E01, GZL P01, and GZL J01. It's actually very simple! Look at The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. For many years, Dolphin used the GameID of a title to detect the region. After all, games have to report their region to the console, so the task should be simple for the emulator, right? It may come as a surprise that Dolphin has had a lot of complications with properly detecting game regions and even has fallbacks for when it cannot detect a region. Handling game regions is something that users shouldn't have to think about most of the time. Notable Changes ¶ 5.0-13152 - Add Fallback Region Option by flagrama ¶
So, with that out of the way, we hope you enjoy this belated Dolphin Progress Report! As a blog about emulation, getting these details correct about the various changes and how the emulator works is one of our highest priorities. With Progress Reports coming at a mostly bimonthly schedule at this point, this means that sometimes authors have moved onto different things or aren't available to talk. Going from things like the AArch64 JIT to GUI changes to IOS updates to game patches that go into low-level hardware behavior is enough to make anyone's head spin! More often than not, we rely on core developers and the authors of a specific change to help us understand what a pull request does so that we can express its purpose accurately here on the blog. We on the blog team are familiar with the emulator, however there are a lot of technical details that are simply beyond our expertise. Welcome to the Dolphin Progress Report for December 2020 and January 2021! Things ended up running a little behind for this report due to some technical details that we needed to hammer out for a few of these entries.
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